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    Bomb explosion at Norway gov't HQ

    Bomb Explosion Rocks Norwegian Gov’t Headquarters After Terrorist Charges Last Week

    Posted on July 22, 2011 at 9:54am by Jonathon M. Seidl

    OSLO, Norway (AP) — A powerful bomb tore open several Oslo buildings, including the prime minister’s office, on Friday, killing at least one person, a Norwegian news agency said. Several people also were injured, as the blast shattered windows and coated the street with documents.

    Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press. A senior adviser to the prime minister, Oivind Ostang, said Stoltenberg was working at home Friday and was not in the building.

    Norwegian news agency NTB says police confirm the Oslo explosion was caused by a bomb. The country’s public broadcaster, NRK, said one person was confirmed killed.

    “There has been one or several powerful explosions in the government district in Oslo,â€

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    UPDATE

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    Oslo explosion - live coverage

    An explosion has damaged government buildings in Oslo with injuries reported. The cause of the blast has yet to be ascertained.

    If you have any information please email me at haroon.siddique@guardian.co.uk or contact me via Twitter @haroon_siddique



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    Smoke is seen billowing from a damaged building as debris is strewn across the street after an explosion in Oslo. Photograph: AP

    6.09pm: NRK is reporting that an unknown group called "Helpers of the Global Jihad" have posted a message that this is only the beginning of the reaction to Norwegian periodicals publishing the Muhammed cartoons, according to Andrew Boyle, a journalist in Norway.

    6.05pm: Here's a map of the areas targeted by attacks today, provided by my colleague Paddy Allen:

    View Oslo attack, July 2011 in a larger map

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    6.01pm: John Magnus, chief foreign correspondent of Oslo's VG newspaper, told the Guardian he was sitting at his desk when the massive explosion in central Oslo today blew him off his chair.

    It was 3.26 in the afternoon. The whole building was shaking. It was dancing. There was glass flying through the newsroom. I was on the far side of the building from where the prime minister's office is. The entire glass front of our building has been blown out ...

    I saw people screaming and covered in blood. There were at least four people I saw who looked lifeless with their faces covered. We've had it confirmed that two people are dead but there are other locations that the emergency services have not reached yet.

    Alyssa Nilsen told the Guardian: "My entire building was shaking ....People are lying across the street everywhere, I've seen people hanging out of the windows."

    The Guardian has a gallery of today's tragic events.

    5.48pm: In central Oslo, the train station has been evacuated as well as the headquarters of broadcaster TV2 because of suspicious packages.

    5.47pm: Anti-terrorism police are being sent to Utoya where the Labour party youth camp has come under fire, the BBC is reporting. NRK says five people have been injured.

    Andrew Boyle, a journalist in Norway, has sent me the following:

    There are 700 people on the island camp. At 5.20 pm ambulance personel were told not to proceed out to the island because there was still shooting there. One Labour youth member tweeted: "We are sitting down by the beach. A man is shotting clothed in a police uniform. Help us! When are the police coming to help us!"

    Police stormtroopers are about to land on Utoya island from helicopters. Shooting still going on. Eyewitness describes shooting from his position on the mainland: "There is a little war going on out there"

    5.40pm: Police have confirmed the shooting incident, reports Reuters.

    The news agency also quotes senior police officer, Thor Langli, saying the explosion that hit government buildings "may have been a car bomb".

    5.31pm: Neil Perry has sent me more details of the shooting on the Labour party youth camp, which suggests the possibility of co-ordinated attacks. It is a Google translation from Dagbladet, tidied up a bit, so it is not perfect.

    yewitnesses told the AP that a man dressed as a police officer has fired several shots at Utøya in Buskerud. AP spoke with one of those who were on Utoya where there is an AUF event with over 700 people.

    "Suddenly, we heard lots of shooting. People had to run and hide. We have been told to get off the island."

    "We now have reports of a serious situation there - a critical situation on Utøya," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told TV 2

    The police are now on site and sealed off the area. Bjorn Jarle Røberg-Larsen of Labor, is not in Utoya, but has had telephone contact with young people who are on the island.

    "They say that at least one person wearing a police-like uniform was firing shots with a handgun," he said.

    He says that the young people he talked to were hiding and dared not speak on the phone anymore for fear of being discovered by the perpetrator.

    "Young people have to swim in panic, and it is far to the mainland from Utoya. Others are hiding. Those I spoke with did not want to talk more. They were terrified," he said to VG Nett.

    5.16pm: Neil Perry in Oslo just sent me this worrying development. I'll try to get more details:

    A man disguised as a police officer began shooting where youth were attending a Labour party conference at Utoya, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has just confirmed.

    He said there is a 'critical and serious situation' but he is safe.

    He was speaking on the phone to Norwegian TV station TV2.

    UPDATE: This post was amended as Stoltenberg was not present at the conference as previously stated. He had been due to attend it but did not go.

    5.11pm: Police are now saying 15 people are confirmed injured, says the BBC.

    They are telling people to leave the centre of Oslo and warning there could be more explosions.

    They are also examining an unexploded package, although the location of the package is not clear.

    4.57pm: You can watch the live coverage from state broadcaster NRK here (it is in Norwegian). (via my colleague Laura Oliver)

    4.56pm: The official police statement says:

    There has been one or several powerful explosions in the government district in Oslo. So far, police cannot say anything about the scope of the damage, aside from that there's been one or several explosions.

    The BBC says police have told them it is believed to be terrorism-related although they do not no the motive.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/20 ... e-coverage

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    18.03 Will McCants now says that Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (Helpers of Global Jihad) seem to make a claim of responsibility. They claim it is in response to the occupation of Afghanistan and insults to the Prophet Mohammed. It has come via Shmukh, an elite jihadi forum

    "We have warned since the Stockholm raid of more operations & we have demanded that the countries of Europe withdraw from..." #osloless than a minute ago via web Favorite Retweet ReplyWill McCants
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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldne ... erage.html

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    Norway’s 9/11….Wake up world, The muslims are at war with the rest of the earth.

    The religion of peace befriends another Country…..Haven’t we learned enough about Muslims yet? Norway , like Sweden, is a sickening liberal government. They decided on their own they needed more diversity in their population and imported these monsters. What fools. So far, all they have gotten is raped women and dead blond haired children. How is that multiculturalism working out for you.

    Look how the multiculturalism in America is working out. And Rome continues to burn.........................

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    Quote Originally Posted by OneNationUnderGod
    Norway’s 9/11….Wake up world, The muslims are at war with the rest of the earth.

    The religion of peace befriends another Country…..Haven’t we learned enough about Muslims yet? Norway , like Sweden, is a sickening liberal government. They decided on their own they needed more diversity in their population and imported these monsters. What fools. So far, all they have gotten is raped women and dead blond haired children. How is that multiculturalism working out for you.

    Look how the multiculturalism in America is working out. And Rome continues to burn.........................
    Couldn't agree more. These aren't peaceful people with a desire to assimilate into the culture of their adopted countries.
    ...I call on you in the name of Liberty, of patriotism & everything dear to the American character, to come to our aid...

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    Letter From The Alamo Feb 24, 1836

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