Norway attacks: what happened and the implications (new title)

[davidbfpo]

After the bombing attack in central Oslo and the massacre at a youth camp on Utoya island, by Anders Behring Breivik, Norway set up an independent commission, known as the 22 July Commission, to:

review and learn from the terrorist attacks

This link is to the commission's website, which has an English extract, which is highly recommended reading:http://22julikommisjonen.no/en/Report

The extract has some startling comments on the first responders & health service compared to the police and on the difficulties of ensuring identified problems are really resolved.

The BBC report on 22/7:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19241327 and this week Breivik was dealt with in court:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19376468

I am particularly interested in the pre-attack intelligence aspects, in March 2012 the Norwegian PST or Police Security Services:

is comparable to the MI5 in the UK

To date I have been unable to trace a copy of this report; the BBC News report has a very short summary:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17399488

If anyone has a link to the report, preferably in English, please let me know or post here.

Finally there is a previous thread on the Oslo attacks 'Norway attacks: what happened and the implications', so this thread will be merged one day:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=13830

[davidbfpo]

Lessons seen and mainly learnt from Norway:

It's been nearly two years since Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik murdered 77 people, most of them teenagers. Nearly a quarter of Norwegians knew someone directly affected. But as the country began to grieve together, it also embarked on a unique process of healing.

Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22951220

[davidbfpo]

The Norwegian internal security service, PST, published a report on the Breivik attack and why their systems failed to identify him beforehand as a threat. Thanks to a "lurker" I have found two press releases on the PST's website that summarise their July 2012 report, which appears to be only available in Norwegian:http://www.pst.no/media/43446/evalue...072011_PST.pdf

a) How far should a security service could go in preventing? http://www.pst.no/blogg/hvor-langt-s...i-a-forebygge/

b) PST's evaluation after 22 July events http://www.pst.no/media/utgivelser/e...-22-juli-2011/

[davidbfpo]

An event @ The Frontline Club, London next month with:

...award-winning foreign correspondent sne Seierstads new book, One of Us, offers a definitive account of this tragic episode in Norways history. She will be joining us to share her research and talk about what she discovered about Breivik, his ideology and the world he grew up in.

Normally within days a podcast apepars on the website:http://www.frontlineclub.com/insight...tad-one-of-us/