Oslo, Norway Hit With Terror Attacks - Video, Articles, Photos
Keep Norway in our thoughts.
"Friday's devastating pair of attacks in Norway that left at least 16 people dead turned the capital city of a country known for calm and neutrality -- it is the country of the Nobel Peace Prize -- into a setting of chaos and terror.
Between 1970 and 2010, only 15 terrorist attacks occurred in Norway, according to the Global Terrorism Database, a project of the University of Maryland that has been recording terrorist attacks since 1970. By comparison, 2,347 acts of terrorism occurred in the United States during this period." via HuffPo
The Oslo Attacks - Glenn Greenwald
Oslo Bombing Aftermath Photos - Boing Boing
Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg says the country has been "shaken by the evil that struck us so brutally". But he added: "We are a small nation and a proud nation. No-one will bomb us to silence, no-one will shoot us to silence, no-one will ever scare us from being Norway."
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Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store tells the BBC that though the government will have to physically relocate in Oslo due to the bombings, Norway will not "sell out our core values of democracy" in the face of the attacks.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called the deadly bombing in Oslo an "odious and unacceptable act" of violence. "At this dramatic time, I wish to pass on the profound sympathy of the entire French people for the Norwegian people," he said.
Mr Stoltenberg tells Norwegian broadcaster NRK: "Co-workers have lost their lives today... It's frightening. That's not how we want things in our country.
"But it's important that we don't let ourselves be scared. Because the purpose of that kind of violence is to create fear."
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