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

[defense linguistics]

Wikipedia seems to be evolving into a rather efficient news aggregator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

[TDB]

Wikipedia seems to be evolving into a rather efficient news aggregator:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks

I noticed this 10 minutes after the news here reported it, crazy.

[davidbfpo]

Grim day yesterday for Norway, which continues today. It is almost a throwback to the invasion by Hitler's Germany in 1940 for the violence and the realisation when Quisling and his followers came to the fore, assisting the occupation that there was an 'enemy within'.

Much has been written about 'Lone Wolves', notably by Raffaello Pantucci and his website is: http://raffaellopantucci.com/tag/terrorism/ He is ex-IISS and now aligned to Kings College London. He has wisely not yet commented.

The potential for 'Lone Wolves' to develop has always been there, which the USA is more familiar with than Western Europe. Today the speed of moving to planning an attack is faster and the knowledge required easier to find. The extreme right has it's "lunatic fringe", rarely aggressive in Western Europe I say and despite all the bluster it is usually defensive posturing.

The BBC's Oslo correspondent has added a comment on the Norwegian extreme right:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14260195

I am sure many politicians across Europe, particularly where there is an extreme right fringe, will be asking their security agencies for a review of their own national / regional position. There is no reason why that should not be done in the UK, maybe in the USA & Canada?

Governments will normally conduct such a review behind a wall of secrecy. I see no reason why, in the UK, the Home Affairs Select Committee should not hold an open hearing nor that US Congressman who holds hearings on the threat from Muslims.

[Fuchs]

... and again I'm glad that I don't pay much attention to early reports...

[motorfirebox]

I posted this link in the journal entry comments, thought I'd share it here as well. Brief info on the attacker:

http://www.theatlantic.com/internati...killer/242398/

Breivik had set up his own business, Breivik Geofarm, and a month ago had started to run an organic farm in Hedmark in eastern Norway. There he reportedly produced and stored fertilizers that he was able to use in explosives.

He was known to be active on the internet, expressing extremist Islamophobic views on forums and criticizing immigration policies.

He recently claimed that politics today was not about socialism vs. capitalism but nationalism vs. internationalism. He argued on a Swedish news website that the media were not critical enough about Islam and claimed that Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom in the Netherlands was the only "true" party of conservatives.

[davidbfpo]

A YouTube clip 'Breivik Video Manifesto - Norway' accredited to the murderer, which was removed and then re-appeared:http://www.twitvid.com/EXJWW

Other sources indicate he was a rich man, had historical ties to a conservative political party till a few years ago and posted a lot on the web.

[TDB]

A YouTube clip 'Breivik Video Manifesto - Norway' accredited to the murderer, which was removed and then re-appeared:http://www.twitvid.com/EXJWW

Other sources indicate he was a rich man, had historical ties to a conservative political party till a few years ago and posted a lot on the web.

Well that was alarming