Thanks Haruna and Suntou...This writer speaks for me as well because this
tragedy is a crime against humanity and democracy...Perhaps is a wake up
call for politicians in Norway and beyond to be responsible for what they
preach...

Niamorkono

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Haruna Darbo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> That's right Nyamorkono, I forgot you were in Norway too. I'm glad you're
> ok though and your family.
> Best wishes.
> Haruna.
>
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>  Unanswered questions in Norway terror attack By Susan Garth
> 28 July 2011
> It is now almost a week since the fascist atrocity in Norway—the blowing up
> of government offices in central Oslo, killing eight people, and the
> cold-blooded murder of 68 young people on the nearby island of Otøya.
> This terrorist attack, the most deadly in post-war Norwegian history, has
> been consistently reported as the work of a crazed gunman who acted alone.
> The media and politicians are working assiduously to obscure the political
> motives of the killer, his connections to far-right and fascist
> organizations, and the political and moral responsibility borne by
> establishment parties and politicians in Europe and the US who have sought
> to appropriate the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim program of the extreme
> right wing.
> This is not an easy task, since the killer, Anders Behring Breivik,
> announced to the world that he was setting out to destroy the Norwegian
> Labour Party and kill as many of its officials and members as possible
> because he associated the party with “Marxist multiculturalism.” In a
> 1,500-page manifesto posted on the Internet only hours before the attack,
> Breivik, the son of a former Norwegian diplomat, proclaimed his bloody act
> to be part of a campaign to purge Muslim influence from Norway and defend
> “Western civilization.”
> His action, he explained, should signal the start of a European civil war
> and serve as a rallying point for anti-Muslim fanatics. His lawyer, Geir
> Lippestad said on Tuesday, “He believes this is the start of a war that will
> go on for 60 years.”
> In the rush by the media and political establishment to derail any serious
> discussion or examination of the facts of the attack and its political
> implications, a number of glaring anomalies and troubling questions are
> being passed over in silence.
> There is the fact that it took the police 90 minutes to arrive on Otøya, 25
> miles from Oslo, after they began receiving desperate telephone calls from
> Labour Party youth reporting that scores of people were being executed by a
> gunman. The official story is that no helicopters were available.
> If that is true, it only demonstrates the fraud of the so-called “war on
> terrorism.” Norway has sent troops to Afghanistan and is supporting the
> US-NATO air war against Libya supposedly because such interventions are
> necessary to protect the people of Norway and Europe as a whole from the
> ever-present threat of terrorist attack. But an actual terrorist attack on
> Norwegian soil—not by an Islamic extremist but by a native-born middle-class
> Norwegian—immediately exposes the fact that no preparations have been made
> to protect the population.
> Why? Because the Norwegian ruling class and all of its parties—social
> democratic as well as conservative—understand that the so-called “war on
> terror” is an elaborate pretext for military aggression abroad on behalf of
> the imperialist economic and geo-political interests of the financial elite,
> and an assault on democratic rights at home to prepare for state repression
> against working class opposition to austerity measures. It has nothing to do
> with defending the people against external attack.
> Far from offering a serious explanation for the delayed police response,
> which gave Breivik all the time he needed he murder one youth after another
> without hindrance, Justice Minister Knut Storberget on Tuesday praised the
> “fantastic work” of the police.
> “I would like to emphasize that the police have done a magnificent job and
> I do not think it is appropriate to criticise the police,” he said when
> journalists questioned him about the 90 minute delay. “It is important for
> me to congratulate all policewomen and policemen working on the streets, as
> well as all senior police officials,” Storberget insisted.
> Nor was the performance of Norway’s Delta Force, presumably the first line
> of defence against terrorist attacks, any better. The head of the force,
> Anders Snortheimsmoen, said this week that it arrived at the same time as
> the local police.
> According to his lawyer, Breivik himself was surprised that he was able to
> carry out the massacre on Otøya after exploding the bomb in Oslo. He
> expected to be killed immediately after the Oslo bombing. The ease and speed
> with which Breivik reached the island and put his terrorist plan into
> operation stands in marked contrast to time it took the police to make the
> same journey to apprehend him.
> The delay in the police response is only one of many troubling unanswered
> questions. It is widely reported that Breivik was wearing as police uniform.
> How did he obtain it?
> Early reports said that six people were arrested in Breivik’s apartment.
> They were later said to have been released because they had no connection
> with the case. But why were six people at the home of a man who has been
> described as a loner?
> Breivik initially claimed to be working alone, but he later said there were
> two other terrorist cells in Norway, as well as others abroad. Norwegian
> police have been quick to deny that Breivik had any accomplices.
> Janne Kristiansen, head of domestic intelligence, said it was “highly
> unlikely” that other cells existed, despite the fact that other security
> agencies worldwide are searching for links to Breivik. On what facts or
> evidence is Kristiansen’s conclusion based? The mainstream media do not
> bother to even ask.
> Evidence of Breivik’s links to right-wing organisations is mounting. The
> English Defence League (EDL), which initially denied any connection with
> him, has now back-tracked and is examining the possibility, after the
> UK-based *Searchlight *magazine, which investigates right-wing groups,
> published material indicating that contacts existed between the EDL and
> Breivik.
> If Breivik operated alone, it is difficult to explain how he assembled the
> chemicals and weapons he needed for his attack. Norwegian police blew up
> explosives at a farm rented by Breivik. They refused to say what quantity of
> explosives was involved. Some reports have suggested that he had a total of
> 6 tonnes of explosives sourced from different companies, some of them
> outside Norway.
> His purchases brought him to the attention of Norwegian customs, who
> reported him to the security services. His name was on an Interpol and a
> Norwegian watch list. How, then, was he able to proceed with impunity in
> carrying out his murderous plan?
> The attempt to separate the terrorist attack in Norway from the increasing
> integration of fascistic tendencies into mainstream European bourgeois
> politics pervades the media coverage and official commentary. Every effort
> is being made to portray this politically motivated crime as an isolated
> event that has no wider political significance.
> Writing in the *Guardian*, British journalist Simon Jenkins declared: “The
> Norwegian tragedy is just that, a tragedy. It does not signify anything and
> should not be forced to do so. A man so insane he can see nothing wrong in
> shooting dead 68 young people in cold blood is so exceptional as to be of
> interest to criminology and brain science, but not to politics.”
> Meanwhile, some spokesmen for right-wing parties that share government
> power are defending the political outlook of Breivik. Interviewed on a
> popular radio show, Francesco Speroni, a leading member of the Northern
> League, the junior partner in Silvio Berlusconi's conservative coalition,
> said, “Breivik’s ideas are in defence of Western civilization.”
> Another Northern League politician, member of the European parliament Mario
> Borghezio, told radio Il Sole-24 Ore that he sympathised with Breivik’s
> ideas. “Some of the ideas he expressed are good, barring the violence. Some
> of them are great,” Borghezio said.
> Breivik is a former member of the Norwegian Progress Party, which calls for
> tighter curbs on immigration. In 2009, Siv Jensen, leader of the party,
> identified what she called “a kind of sneak-Islamisation of this society,”
> for which she blamed the Labour Party. “We are going to have to stop this,”
> she said.
> Breivik reportedly left the Progress Party because he deemed it
> insufficiently right-wing.
> What has taken place in Norway is a fascist terror attack. Its immediate
> target was the Norwegian Labour Party, but there should be no mistake that
> the objective of the forces to which Breivik belongs is a war on the working
> class.
> The Norwegian Labour Party, like every other social democratic party, has
> adapted its policies to the extreme right. The effect of last Friday’s
> attack will be to drive it even further to the right, and other parties,
> social democratic and otherwise, will follow suit.
> The Norway terror attack is the outcome of a process in which fascistic
> elements have been nurtured over many years and are now being brought into
> official political life. The massacre exposes the putrefaction of the entire
> political system in Europe and beyond.
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