http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,790875,00.htmlSPIEGEL: Mr. Prime Minister, what were you doing right when the bomb exploded in Oslo's government district on July 22?
Stoltenberg: I was writing the speech that I intended to deliver the next day to the young socialists on Utøya. I heard an explosion and was completely unaware that something serious had happened. Seconds later, I was called by some colleagues who were in the government offices where the bomb had exploded. They asked me: "Are you wounded?" I still didn't understand what they wanted. I just sat here in my office calmly and peacefully.
SPIEGEL: Your colleagues didn't know you weren't in your government office?
Stoltenberg: Yes, I actually should have been there. But since I wanted to write the speech, I decided to stay home, where I can concentrate better.
SPIEGEL: At what point did you realize the full scale of the attack?
Stoltenberg: My colleagues told me, as they were running down the government building's 15 flights of stairs, how powerful the explosion had been. But I only really understood the totality of it when they came to me later with blood on their clothes and bandages on their faces. They were on the 15th floor when it happened. It could only have been a massive explosion, and it was clear to me that people on the lower floors must have been killed.