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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-11 11:52 PM
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right-wing extremist: At least 87 dead in shootings at youth conference, oslo explosions
Two apparently coordinated attacks hit Norway on Friday, with at least 80 people shot to death at a youth political conference outside Oslo after a massive explosion in the capital’s government district killed at least seven people, according to Norwegian police.

The attacks, which added up to the largest in Norway since World War II, stunned a country better known for the Nobel Peace Prize than for violence and seemed sure to force a cultural shift in an open society in which government buildings are lightly protected.

A 32-year-old Norwegian man was arrested in the shooting and “is suspected of having some right-wing sympathies,” said Police Directorate spokesman Runar Kvernen. “The police are now working with the theory that he is involved in both of the tragedies today. He was observed, the same person, the same outfit, at both scenes.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norways-capital-shaken-by-bomb-blast/2011/07/22/gIQABA6dTI_story.html?hpid=z2
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