[tsakach]

Norway's oil ministry has been evacuated following an explosion close to the government's headquarters amid reports that the oil ministry is on fire and may have been the target of the attack.

"We've all been evacuated, I didn't see a fire after the explosion but I've been told there is a fire in the (oil ministry) building," an oil ministry spokesman told Platts.

The official was unable to confirm reports of one fatality from the blast or whether the blast was directed at the oil ministry.

Norway's Dagbladet cited police at the scene saying that the attack was directed against the oil and energy ministry and the building is on fire. The newspaper said the police believe the blast was caused by at least one car bomb.

Earlier, Norwegian radio reported that the explosion seemed to happen near the finance ministry, which is near the Norwegian prime minister's office and Norway's biggest tabloid newspaper VG.

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/Oil/8155145

[Fishman]

I bet it was those pesky right wing terrorists that our Homeland Security head keeps talking about. Maybe it was someone upset about Obamacare that Bloomberb blamed in the past. Could be those terrible Christians that pstarr is always railing about, I hear the Quakers are particularly violent.

[peeker01]

No, it was AGW. Extreme heat caused all that glass to break.

[cephalotus]

Norway was hit be a double terrorist attack (car bomb in Oslo + a terrorist dressed as a police man shooting some Youths) that killed several people and you are making fun of your close alley in Afghanistan and Libya???

[dorlomin]

Sounds grim, gun man in a youth camp. Bomb in the city center.

Good luck to all our Norwegian posters, hope none of your friends and family are caught up in this.

[SteinarN]

Nine or ten shot dead confirmed at youth camp. Seven confirmed dead at Oslo government building explosion site.

[dorlomin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SteinarN', 'N')ine or ten shot dead confirmed at youth camp. Seven confirmed dead at Oslo government building explosion site.

[Keith_McClary]

Game Changer: Norway’s encounter with terror.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')here are further possibilities of the July 22 explosion being the result of Norway’s treatment of the Iraqi Kurdish Islamist Mulla Krekar. In July 2011, Norway brought terror charges against Najm al-Din Faraj Ahmad alias Mullah Krekar, the founder of the outlawed Kurdistan Islamic group of Ansar al-Islam after he threatened former Norwegian asylum minister Erna Solberg. In media interviews Krekar had said that if he is deported to Iraq and killed there, they would face the same fate.

Iraqi born Mulla Krekar had come to Norway as a refugee in the early 1990s and spent years secretly shuttling between Oslo and Kurdistan until his arrest in September 2002.

[dorlomin]

Speculation at this early stage is liable to be guesses at best.

Perhaps let things settle a little first.

[Oneaboveall]

It looks like it was ultra-nationalists, not Islamic extremists:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/2 ... 07513.html

[eXpat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oneaboveall', 'I')t looks like it was ultra-nationalists, not Islamic extremists:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/2 ... 07513.html

[babystrangeloop]

Hit them so hard they depleted retroactively.

[tsakach]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Fishman', 'I') bet it was those pesky right wing terrorists that our Homeland Security head keeps talking about. Could be those terrible Christians that pstarr is always railing about, I hear the Quakers are particularly violent.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tsakach', 'r')ight-wing extremist who hates Muslims.
...
religion as Christian, politics as conservative. It said he enjoys hunting[/url]

[mattduke]

A little piece of Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan arrives in Norway. This will be used as an excuse for more killing.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'A') little piece of Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan arrives in Norway.

[Serial_Worrier]

This is a foretaste of the "end of days" coming soon as TEOTWAWKI.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', 'T')his is a foretaste of the "end of days" coming soon as TEOTWAWKI.

[dorlomin]

91 dead

[SeaGypsy]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-23/g ... ge/2807456