ALERT Major Explosion in Oslo Damages Government Buildings, Youth Camp Also Attacked - 80+ dead

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Explosion In Oslo Government Building


An explosion in Oslo has blown out most of the windows of a 17-storey government building which contains the Prime Minister's office, according to reports.

A witness reported that as many as eight people had been hurt.

Nearby offices in the Norwegian capital are being evacuated.

Police and fire officials have declined to comment on the cause of the explosion.
One journalist on public radio NRK reported from the scene.

"I see that some windows of the government headquarters have been broken.

"Some people covered with blood are lying in the street."

More to follow ...

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Wo..._Prime_Ministers_Office,_According_To_Reuters
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Blast hits buildings in central Oslo; injuries reported

An explosion knocks out windows in government buildings in downtown Oslo, news agencies reports. Injuries have been reported.

Update at 9:57 a.m. ET: A photograph of the scene on the Aftenposten web site shows several blocks strewn with rubble, and almost all the windows of one building shattered.

Update at 9:52 a.m. ET:The Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten quotes witnesses as saying Oslo's Market Street is "full of chaos" with people "running around bewildered," some with blood on their faces and hands. "You can smell the sulfur fumes," the newspaper's reporter says.

Update at 9:44 a.m. ET: The Associated Press reports that an explosion has damaged buildings in downtown Oslo; offices are being evacuated.


Original post: An explosion in Oslo explosion today has blown out most of the windows of the government building housing the Norwegian prime minister's office, according to a witness, Reuters reports.


The news agency says several people have been injured

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...vernment-office-building-windows/1?csp=34news
 

Shacknasty Shagrat

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Keep the pix coming. RB
Not many people or emergency services visible.
Where are fire, medical and police?
The smoke and dust have cleared in the second picture.
SS
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Not much structural damage but amazingly widespread window damage. Debris for blocks.

Looks like some kind of a very large low velocity explosion.

Right now I would say it is a natural gas explosion or a fertilizer/fuel car/truck bomb.
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Norwegian - detected to English translation

It is not yet possible to say how many people are injured or killed in the explosion.

- All we know is that there is a kind of explosion. We are on the way out there, are the short and hasty message Aftenposten.no get the police in Oslo for the call just after half past four.

In a press release from the Oslo police are the following:

There has been a powerful explosion in the government quarter. The police was notified of this at 1526 this afternoon.

All rescue personnel are on site and the police are trying to get an overview of the situation. Police District staff is called.

Several injured
Both windows in the government quarter and VG building is blown out, according to Aftenposten's report on the site. They look more damaged.

- The police tell us that we need to get us off, we need to get off. There may be more bombs, tells reporters.

They say that there is broken glass everywhere, the burning of buildings.

- I see people with blood on his face and hands, telling Aftenposten reporter.

Eyewitnesses say it may look like a car outside a high block has been the basis for the explosion. Press The wave was so powerful that the windows all the way down to the National Agencies building was blown out.

Paramedics treat more injuries in the street outside the government building.

Entire facades blown out
Our reporter passed Market Street and there is full chaos people running around bewildered. Several places are a fire alarm.

You can smell the sulfur fumes.

Shop Denim Gallery has received throughout the facade blown out

Closing of areas
A huge røyksy rose several hundred feet in the air. Large parts of Oslo heard a huge explosion which led to Darren Hayes literally shook when the explosion happened

at five at half four in the afternoon.

Vaterland tunnel is closed. Square is about to be closed and Young town square is already closed, because the police fear that new explosions can occur.

There have been several unconfirmed reports that it also should have been a violent explosion in Stortingsta, just below the Parliament, according to NTB.
 

John H

Deceased
The religion of pieces, strikes again?

Obviously staged attacks by the TPTB against their own offices. / sarcasm

John H
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Norwegian - detected to English translation

Powerful blast in downtown Oslo
More people are injured

All the windows in the government building is destroyed

All roads into the city center is blocked

Jens Stoltenberg is damaged

All windows in a larger area of ​​the city is broken. - There are people in the streets that bleed.
 

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geoffs

Veteran Member
My thoughts & prayers are with them, my father was from Norway. They've always been known as such a peaceful country.
 

mzkitty

I give up.
valkyrie72: RT @cnnbrk: Second blast reported in central Oslo, #Norway. http://t.co/dPHb33j
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:33:41 AM


Bryan_Wall: RT @thejournal_ie: Conflicting reports of second explosion in #Oslo - CNN reports there is but local paper says there isn't http://t.co/qvVASUC #oslo #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:34:15 AM

rodicka: #Oslo #Norway #bombs local news reports still uncertain exactly what happened. Sirens all around. We're heading out of town #fb
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:34:27 AM

blindcyclists: Looking at BBC footage, looks like car bomb #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:34:54 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Norway Tweet Grid, you can follow it:

http://tweetgrid.com/search?q=#norway



AHFitzpatrick: If anyone wanted to send a message to the Norwegian government, the government quarter would definitely be the place to do it. #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:36:01 AM

rodicka: RT @emdk: So far no-one has been reported dead, 8 have been severely damaged and several others have been hurt. #Oslo #Norway #Bomb
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:36:43 AM
 

Troke

On TB every waking moment
When it comes to Islam, the Norski's are about as PC as they come. If this comes back to Islam, they have shot themselves in the foot very badly.

If it were a car bomb, seems we would have photos of a hole in the pavement by now. Yet, given the time of day, natural gas does not seem a suspect. Surely somebody would have noticed the leak.

And there is that talk of sulfur in the air too.
 

doctor_fungcool

TB Fanatic
When it comes to Islam, the Norski's are about as PC as they come. If this comes back to Islam, they have shot themselves in the foot very badly.

If it were a car bomb, seems we would have photos of a hole in the pavement by now. Yet, given the time of day, natural gas does not seem a suspect. Surely somebody would have noticed the leak.

And there is that talk of sulfur in the air too.

Actually, bringing in Islam when NOBODY knows what caused this is disingenuous, Troke, and in my view pathetic.
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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mzkitty

I give up.
enjoywhatudo: RT @_AEK_: The explosion in #Norway from air: http://yfrog.com/kinyqpej
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:44:52 AM

swin24: RT @FrankRGardner: #Norway blast - working assumption is it was a bomb but not confirmed. AQ's AlZawahiri threatened Norway in 2007.
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:44:50 AM


ArriannaMarie: RT @akhilak: RT @undispatch: Videos capture the awful aftermath of #Oslo blasts. http://ow.ly/5KWDw #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:44:47 AM

CFKlebergTT: One person confirmed dead in #Oslo blast, says norwegian radio. More deaths feared. #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:44:47 AM
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Norwegian - detected to English translation

• At least 8 are injured
• All windows in the government building is destroyed

• All roads blocked to the city center is blocked
• Jens Stoltenberg is intact
There have been reports of another explosion in Parliament Street, but it is not true. According to NRK reporter at the site was only broken glass that had fallen out.

According to Dagbladet says that there is talk of an attack directed against the oil and energy ministry. The bomb must have gone off between the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry.

NRK.no has talked with oil and energy minister Ola Borten Moe. He's fine, but do not know how it goes with colleagues in the department.

In the emergency room at Ullevål are registered seven seriously injured.

Several unexploded bombs
- You can not go through here, because there are still two bombs we do not know where is, police on site to Aftenposten.no reporters.

NRK.no do not know anything more about the circumstances of these bombs.

In Akersgata are many people looking for a corrupted government quarter. Glass doors are blown away. Police and fire departments are looking for casualties in the area.

Articulated buses are filled with injuries in the city center and taken to the emergency room.

Oslo is locked down at No.

- Thought it was an earthquake
- The whole building shook. We thought it was an earthquake, says NRK journalist Ingunn Andersen, who was near.

- I see that it is blown out windows in the VG-building and the windows in the government quarter. There are people on the streets that bleed. There is glass everywhere. There is chaos here. The window is blown out of all the nearby buildings.

. All the windows in the government building is destroyed. It will rise black smoke out of buildings. It should also be blown out windows up Ullevålsveien almost up to Akersbakken

NRK journalist Gunnar Bøthun said that the police chasing people away from the border. More than 1000 people being chased away now. The police are aggressive and says it is dangerous to be here

- People are in shock
NRK.nos reporter on the spot, Ingunn Andersen, spoke with a witness to the explosion. The man was in the VG-house, located right by the government quarter.

- He told me that he heard a tremendously loud bang and the windows on the VG-house were shattered. He saw a column of flame rose from the government quarter, and it was four to five floors up in the air.

Andersen says that the people she sees around her, is strongly affected by the incident.

- People are in shock, they do not understand what has happened.

May Liss Waage job in the Farmers in the Akersgata 45

- I was in Akersgata 45 in the fourth floor. We sat and worked, and suddenly there was a bang and we saw that the windows on the other side of the street was bulging outward. We looked down the street and saw that there were broken windows everywhere. We think it was the Ministry of Finance.

The explosion must have been heard from the Skyline. Witnesses also says to NRK that they could see flames and smoke from the building in Grubbegaten.

News agency Reuters reports that at least eight people are injured.

VG editor shocked
Editor in VG, Torry Pedersen from Fredrikstad, is shocked by what has happened.

- I'm on vacation, but I've heard about the explosion and now operates to call employees in the building that is on the job, says Pedersen NRK.no.

- I will not comment until I have more clarity about what has happened, says Pedersen

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/norge/1.7722919
 

doctor_fungcool

TB Fanatic
Norway is the 3rd largest oil exporter in the world. They are the 8th largest producer. Watch the price of oil skyrocket over the weekend.
 

mt4design

Has No Life - Lives on TB
If it was natural gas, I'd expect to see flames continue until the source is shut off.

There are reports of the smell of sulfur.

Since all the windows blew outward, how about explosives located in the elevator or shaft?

Given the history of Islam in Norway, I would suspect that that building is an absolute target.

Norway is not at all "Islam friendly".

Mike
 

mzkitty

I give up.
danwithe: RT @MaajidNawaz: Some background on the 2010 al-Qaeda bomb plot in Norway http://t.co/kstDrqp #Oslo #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:50:30 AM

JerusalemOne: Divine punishment for #Norway as they just announced support for Pal state. they have been kissing arab but for 30 yrs and got a thank you
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:50:43 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Ras_Menelik: RT @heyessa: "@STRATFOR Cause of blast in #Oslo, #Norway unknown; mangled vehicle is reportedly outside government buildings"
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:52:09 AM

And I just saw a tweet that said unlikely it's a gas explosion as Norway has no gas network, but it got away from me. I'll see if it comes around again.
 

Gercarson

Veteran Member
USA Today
Update at 10:14 a.m. ET: Although the source of the blast is unclear, Al-Jazeera TV notes that Norwegian prosecutors on Tuesday filed a terrorism charge against Mullah Krekar, founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam. Mullah Krekar is accused of threatening a former minister, Erna Solberg, with death, Al-Jazeera says
 

geoffs

Veteran Member
Oslo Bombing: Massive Blast Hits Norway Government Headquarters, Prime Minister's Office

The government building houses the prime minister's office and his administration. Several ministries are in surrounding buildings.
The blast comes as the Scandinavian country has grappled with a series of homegrown terror plots linked to al-Qaida, and six years after an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in neighbouring Denmark.

Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he's deported from the Nordic country.

The indictment centred on statements that Mullah Krekar — the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam — made to various media, including American network NBC.

Danish authorities say they have foiled several terror plots linked to the 2005 newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that triggered protests in Muslim countries.

Last month, a Danish appeals court on Wednesday sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for breaking into the home of a cartoonist who caricatured the Prophet Muhammad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/07/22/oslo-bombing-massive-blast-norway_n_906683.html
 

mzkitty

I give up.
lena5867: RT @JokkeNor: Bombing possibly related to arrests of three members of Al-quaida in #oslo earlier this month #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:59:58 AM

m0v3al0ngn0w: RT @hypervocal: Live webcam feed of downtown #Oslo can be seen in here: http://ow.ly/5KXrT More pics/vids from the scene and aftermath in #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:59:54 AM

grapheneplanet: RT @FromJoanne: RT @CFKlebergTT Police stops reporter of #Norway's Aftenposten: "because there are still two bombs that we don't know where they are." #Oslo
Friday, July 22, 2011 10:59:53 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
pennysims: RT @JokkeNor: So far: Police confirms that they have reports of two more undetonated bombs in #Oslo and that several people are killed #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:03:42 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Jawed0T: #News: Police confirm 2 fatalities, call 5.30 p.m. local time press conference #OSLO #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:07:26 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
redhero: this is a bizarre youtube from 5 days ago, actual title: wybuch w Oslo - Explosion in Oslo - 22.07.2011 http://bit.ly/owhCWH #oslo #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:09:27 AM


Nithin: RT @mathewi: the top images shared via Twitter re bombing in #Norway: http://bit.ly/r6PbUX /via @antderosa
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:10:05 AM

adamsheroin: D: RT @AlanFisher: #Breaking #Oslo police confirm blast was caused by bomb #osloblast #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:10:42 AM

katiemarie1215: RT @TPM: RT @AlanFisher: US government sources on the scene saying #oslo blast was caused by massive vehicle bomb #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:10:37 AM
 

Red Baron

Paleo-Conservative
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Looking at the pictures,

- Why are there no private vehicles to be seen in the area?

- Way too many people standing around and gawking at ground zero.

- Few pictures of police and fire, especially at ground zero.

- Amazing amount of glass and debris strewn all about. Where are all the casualties at?
 

LightEcho

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Nice. If this turns out to be muslim nuts, the only defense is to drive all of them out of the country.

If they do not defend themselves, they will have to submit to sharia. Choose early and choose wisely.
 

Shacknasty Shagrat

Has No Life - Lives on TB
These pictures are showing a pathetic emergency response. In the pictures the dust has cleared. No protective gear on what few first responders that are on scene. No crowd control to keep civilians out of the collapse zone. No sign of any incident command structure.
Chaos causes casualties.
SS
 

mzkitty

I give up.
cardboardfetus: RT @CFKlebergTT: Several norwegian media outlets quoting police as saying Ministry of Oil and Energy was target of blast. #Norway #Oslo
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:12:45 AM

grillguy54: #Oslo #Norway looks like the aftermath of Okla City. Guesssimilar sized fertilizer bomb. Big time shockwave.Heart goes out to victims
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:13:20 AM

JokkeNor: Police advice #norwegian people to limit use of cellphones. Network is at a breaking point #Oslo #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:13:35 AM

RearViewMirror9: Radical terrorism bites the hand that feeds them. If they don't like #Norway, they can go back to where they came from http://bit.ly/7g4w1u
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:14:09 AM

TravelGov: #Norway: Explosions in Downtown #Oslo - U.S. citizens should stay tuned to local media for info on situation, including transport closings.
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:14:43 AM
 

Aardaerimus

Anunnaku
Several unexploded bombs
- You can not go through here, because there are still two bombs we do not know where is, police on site to Aftenposten.no reporters.

Wait, what?? Didn't we hear this immediately after 9/11 or something? And how would they know there were unexploded bombs and how many unless they initially knew how many bombs there were?? Does that mean they knew it was going to happen, or an inside job??
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Don't know, Aard, I missed catching a tweet about some suspicious packages also seen at the train station or something, and there is the unverified reports still circulating about a second explosion. I'm watching.....

aurawachal: RT @AlanFisher: #Oslo unviersity hospital says it has received 7 victims from the #osloblast #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:19:55 AM

Glossology: RT @AlanFisher: Eyewitnesses in #Oslo say city centre is now being evacutated - central train station has been closed #osloblast #norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:23:06 AM

ywwd: If #Norway bombing traced to #Gaddafi, NATO would retaliate iwth full force to finish him off (not light airstrikes like now).
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:23:25 AM
 

mzkitty

I give up.
fwalloe: It's likely that the police received some sort of warning, as they were aware of more bombs in the area. Airplanes might be grounded #Norway
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:26:30 AM

Aamnes: RT @cnnbrk: Second blast reported in central Oslo, #Norway. http://t.co/dPHb33j
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:26:51 AM

Don't know as that one's confirmed.


Ratopado: According to BBC, people still trapped after the explosion. #norway #oslo
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27:21 AM

d__mas: KO in the street near the Explosion #Oslo #Norway #news :-((( look like the damned 11 sep http://t.co/nvNv20B via @twitpic
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:27:44 AM

al_habieli: RT @MaajidNawaz: 1) #Oslo=no GasNetwork 2)Past foiled AQ attempt 3) #Norway reprinted cartoons 4)Norwegian troops in Afghan 5)Car bomb confirmed 6)AQ threats
Friday, July 22, 2011 11:28:04 AM
 
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