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Norwegian PM: Too Early To Say If It Was Terrorism

By Aaron Goldstein on 7.22.11 @ 1:53PM

Despite the fact a bomb exploded near the office of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and that there has also been a shooting at a retreat of the governing Labour Party's youth wing at which the Prime Minister was apparently scheduled to attend, Stoltenberg says it's too early to call it an act of terrorism.

So how exactly would Stoltenberg care to characterize these events of which he might very well have been a target?

Well, I suppose he could call it one of those "man-caused disasters."

UPDATE: Well, Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami doesn't think it's to early to call it an act of terrorism citing amongst other things "unspecified insults to the Prophet Muhammad." (H/T to Charlie Cooke of National Review.)

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Hook| 7.22.11 @ 2:49PM

Too early? I suspect you must be talking "tongue in cheek." If the West ever got ruthless this sort of thing would be discouraged because the reaction would be so severe that it wouldn't be worth it.

Bob Grant| 7.22.11 @ 3:05PM

My best guess would be a couple of lone middle-aged white men. You know the purchasers of gold, Ron Paul supporters (or the Norwegian equivalent), ex military, or Christians.

JP| 7.22.11 @ 3:13PM

I'm wagering they're either Grand Poobah's of the Lions Club or angry homophobic Sarah Palin bitter clingers who drank too much Snapple.

LiveFreeOrDie| 7.22.11 @ 3:48PM

Definitely members of the TEA party

Clint| 7.22.11 @ 5:29PM

Newsflash: Authorities in Oslo are holding and questioning an American Tourist, Robert McVeigh Grant.
Police Inspector Knute Rockne says Grant has confessed to trying to blow up his stockbroker's office, near The Prime Minister's Office.
Stockbroker Thor "Thorney " Smelt took Grant out ff gold & invested all his portfolio in Borders Books a few weeks ago. Borders is now in the process of liquidation.

Asked by reporters for a comment, Grant said, " I should have listened To Dr.Ron Paul, damn if he wasn't right about gold & The FED".

TiredOfThis| 7.22.11 @ 3:50PM

I think the appropriate response is several W-80 warheads delivered directly to appropriate locations throughout the Muslim world.

I think that would send a meaningful response and demonstrate proper respect to Islam and "The Prophet."

simon templar| 7.22.11 @ 3:53PM

Watch this story carefully. I am taking bets it falls off the radar as soon as it IS confirmed it was muslim terrorists.

TiredOfThis| 7.22.11 @ 4:11PM

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history...

Hook| 7.22.11 @ 4:37PM

correct analysis, simon.

if gabrielle giffords had been shot by a muslim it would have not had remotely the print.

Bob Grant| 7.22.11 @ 5:08PM

Fast forward 2 months.

Headline

Despite Repeated Attempts by AL Qaeda's Top Lieutenant To Take Credit in Norwegian Bombings and Unexploded Casings With Label "Propery of Al Qaeda" at the Site, Norwegian Officials Say it's Way Too Early to Say it's Terrorism

TiredOfThis| 7.22.11 @ 5:24PM

In another press release the PM of Norway also indicated it was too early say if Hitler was responsible for the 1940 invasion of Norway...

TiredOfThis| 7.22.11 @ 5:35PM

Stoltenberg , the PM of Norway, indicated it was too early to say if Alaric I was responsible for the Sacking of Rome in 410AD.

"We must not jump to conclusions. Perhaps it was a just a gang of perturbed and misguided Møøse."

Marc Jeric| 7.22.11 @ 6:47PM

No wonder the Norwegian ruling socialists cannot believe that it was jihadis who attacked them. They gave a Nobel Peace Prize to the then #1 terrorist in the world Arafat. Then they gave the prize to that bloviating gasbag Carter; then to that functional moron Gore; then to Mullah Obama. And I bet they were discussing the next possible recipients among the bosses of Hezbollah or Hamas, and also perhaps the posthumous award to Osama bin Laden. So why the attack now?

Clint| 7.22.11 @ 7:24PM

We Hear It Was A Pissed Off Norwegian Military Veteran With An Ax To Grind, Against The Government.

Calvin| 7.22.11 @ 9:59PM

Now do you see why the government kept its tongue in cheek? Rather than spouting wild rumors and spreading panic they investigated and found not a jihadi, but a homegrown terrorist. Frankly, I believe that's the proper way to respond to an attack.

Bob Grant| 7.22.11 @ 10:19PM

Eh. I'm a numbers man. And the numbers tell me I blame usual suspects. Muslims don't deserve the benefit of doubt. Go a few years without blowing stuff up or beheading people, then we'll talk.

Occam's Tool| 7.22.11 @ 10:23PM

Every rape in Norway in 2010 that was solved was committed by a Muslim. Don't worry, the terror attacks are coming. There are Muslim controlled police no-go zones in Oslo now.

POST American| 7.22.11 @ 11:41PM

MORE astonishingly 'on cue' chaos and terror
as Europe is heading into its next round of
international monopoly finance plunder.

"We are using MASSIVE third world immigration
to DESTROY British culture once and for all
---FOREVER."
-TONY BLAIR
Fmr PM/ Globalist/ Cultural and Demographis
EUGENIST/ ---future EU president?
(Daily Mail interview)

"Understand, this is the bankster style
---as implosion is brought on stage terror,
over turn the civil liberties, bring in a STASI
style police grid as monopoly corporate
banks rape, plunder and take over everything.
This is their style, their trademark."
-ALEX JONES
(yesterday)

While closer to home the ATF has been caught
redhanded massively arming drug gangs in Mexico, and indeed, right here (ON RECORD).

All this as Globalist collapsed Mexico is
hugely funded and incited to 'Reconquista'
by the awesomely sinister TAX FREE Rockefeller/Ford Foundations.

"---They shall find the word --and eat it."

That word is ----TREASON.

-----WHAT ARE WE STILL NOT GETTING?-----

Khan| 7.23.11 @ 9:22AM

The Norwegian attack was conducted by a white Christian terrorist. Aaron Goldstein and the vicious commentators on this website should learn from the Norwegian PM.