Breaking News - Major Terrorist Attack In Oslo, Norway

[Martinus]

There is probably more then one perpetrator.  It would be difficult to plant the bomb and set it off at the same time you are some island shooting kids.

I was speaking only of the shooting.

Is there any evidence right now that the two incidents are linked, other than they happend around the same time?

Is the Labour party perceived as soft on Muslim immigration? Could it be some right wing nutjob enflamed to "revenge" by the bombings?

[JonasSalk]

That looks exaggerated. I'm only seeing 4 dead at the camp.

From the article I posted, also:

The explosions, which ripped through the cluster of modern office buildings around the Einar Gerhardsens plaza, occurred at a time when many Norwegians were on vacation and many more had left their offices early for the weekend.

Doesn't look like the attacks were designed to kill as many people as possible in a random fashion.

[Pat]

According to NRK.no reporter on scene Utøya camp shooter "tall, blonde and with Nordic appearance"

[Jacob]

According to NRK.no reporter on scene Utøya camp shooter "tall, blonde and with Nordic appearance"

Was he captured alive?

[Pat]

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7723132

"Vitner som har klart å rømme fra øya, sier til NRKs reportere på stedet at gjerningsmannen hadde norsk utseende. Han skal være mellom 185 til 190 cm høy og ha blondt hår."

That's all that it says.

[Norgy]

Is the Labour party perceived as soft on Muslim immigration? Could it be some right wing nutjob enflamed to "revenge" by the bombings?

Labour has been the architect of what is seen as a wave of immigrants. While there's been a full stop on free immigration from outside of Europe and North America since 1976, Norway has had a soft asylum and refugee policy, allowing thousands to enter still and there's also Slargos' pet culprit, the family reunions.

The past two-three years, Labour has been hardline on immigration, mostly to stop bleeding low-income, low-education voters to the Progress Party.

Since the police still seem to maintain there's a "connection" between the two incidents/acts of terrorism, my guess is as good as yours as to the motives of the shooter.
Witness accounts say 25-30 killed, shotgun, automatic rifle and pistol shots were fired by a tall blond man in police uniform.
Helicopter tv shots show bodies slumped in the water around the island.

[JonasSalk]

While there's been a full stop on free immigration from outside of Europe and North America since 1976,

Any particular reason why they left Canada and America (and possibly Mexico, geographically) in the free immigration pool?

[Norgy]

Any particular reason why they left Canada and America (and possibly Mexico, geographically) in the free immigration pool?

I imagine technical expertise for the oil industry and multinational corporations' tendency to be predominantly North American.

[Razgovory]

Might just be some lunatic that held a grudge against someone for some unfathomable reason.

[MadImmortalMan]

Looks like about a half kilometer swim to the shore. And the island isn't in Oslofjord. It's in Tyrifjord.

[Pat]

My bet is on some right-wing nutjob that hates politicians and the media.

edit: 1 person arrested alive

[Razgovory]

My bet is on some right-wing nutjob that hates politicians and the media.

edit: 1 person arrested alive

If that's true it's going to disappoint a lot of people who were hoping add it to the list of crimes committed by Muslims.

[MadImmortalMan]

Too bad nobody else on the island was armed.

[HVC]

CNN still hasn't mentioned a tall white dude

[Razgovory]

Too bad nobody else on the island was armed.

Yeah, then the assailant might end up with two guns.