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Norway killer was on drugs: lawyer

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald The Norwegian who admitted to the Oslo bombing and Utoya island massacre that killed 77 people had traces of drugs in his blood at the time of his arrest. Samples were taken from Anders Behring Breivik after his arrest on July 22, his lawyer said […]

What did really fail in Norway?

Source/Credit: The Times of Malta: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 , by Dominique Moisi Japan in March 2011 and Norway in July 2011: any comparison between the madness of nature and the pure madness of man in Norway may sound artificial. Yet, confronted with their respective tragedies, Japan and Norway displayed a […]

Nobel chairman warns Europe’s leaders over ‘inflaming far-right sentiment’

Source: The Observer Europe’s leaders, including David Cameron, have been warned to adopt a more “cautious” approach when discussing multiculturalism. The Norwegian chairman of the Nobel peace prize committee has told them they risk inflaming far-right and anti-Muslim sentiment. Thorbjørn Jagland, a former prime minister of his country, said leaders such […]

Envoy contrasts terror in Israel, Norway

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Norway’s ambassador to Israel drew distinctions between the Oslo and Utoya massacres and Palestinian terrorism. Svein Sevje said in an Israeli newspaper interview Tuesday that while the Norwergian bomb and gun rampages that killed 76 people and Palestinian attacks should both be considered morally unacceptable, he wanted […]

Lessons from the Norwegian tragedy

Source: Dawn Author: Mahir Ali WESTERN terrorism experts have faced considerable derision in the past few days for jumping to the conclusion, in the immediate aftermath of a bomb blast aimed at governmental offices in central Oslo last Friday, that Al Qaeda had once again picked a relatively soft target. […]

A trigger for discourse

Source: The Globe and Mail ……. Linking acts of terrorism with Islam has become trope to the 21st-century journalistic tragedians. But there’s a larger narrative. The emerging portrait of Anders Behring Breivik, the man in custody for carrying out both the bombing and the shooting rampage at a youth camp, […]

Norway Terrorist ‘has accomplices’

Norwegian police are investigating claims by Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out Friday’s twin attacks in Norway, that he has “two more cells” working with him. Mr Breivik made the claim as he attended his first court hearing following the bombing in Oslo and a massacre on an island […]