I can not believe how the author turned this into some sort of 'poor America' story. I truly despise you for this. This catastrophe has nothing to do with the US, but you have somehow managed to portray this as an anti-US sentiment.
Eff you, you selfish American pig.

*crickets*

Perhaps the terrorist threat is not now nor has ever been what we were told...that we have more to fear from people who have been told that Labor and Liberals are the problem, as certainly seems the case in Oslo.

With your interview pinning the blame reflexively on Al Qaida, and now trying to say its anti-American. Just goes to show you what the experts know. They know their area of expertise and want to see it as belonging to same, so of course they indulge in such speculation. This article is just a face saving, following the earlier knee jerk reaction.

When is going to occur to you guys to start asking yourselves, who benefits? In the case of 9-11 it was the national security elites (otherwise known as the neocons.) The very same elites that, a few months before, had said in a public document that a Pearl Harbor type incident would be necessary to justify a war against the Islamic Fundamentalists they'd been talking about as an emerging threat ever since Glasnost appeared on the scene. Many of that documents signatories were members of the notorious Team B, that made the wrong assessment of the Soviet threat, but somehow got it accepted as the basis of our foreign policy during the Reagan/Bush years, when we watched the Soviet Union collapse.

Only solution for Norway is to do what US did in 2001 - open the aid spigots to Pakistan and again attack Taliban bases in Afghanistan while totally ignoring Taliban/Al Qaeda‘s Pakistani roots.

Nobody forced Pakistani government to facilitate relocation of Osama bin Laden from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996. Democratic government of Pakistan chose to do so of its own free will.

As Sandy Berger, Clinton’s national security advisor told 9/11 Commission in 2004, Pakistani Army was the midwife of Taliban. UN report on Bhutto killing released on 4/15/10 confirmed this fact when it noted that "The PAKISTANI MILITARY ORGANIZED AND SUPPORTED THE TALIBAN TO TAKE CONTROL OF AFGHANISTAN IN 1996“.

"But the scene of destruction in downtown Oslo does beg the question"

This is not what "to beg the question" means. "Begging the question" is a type of logical fallacy with a proper meaning entirely unrelated to "posing the question" or "leading to the question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

FP's interviewer seems to be obssessed with Al-Qaida.

What it fails to look at is how the US lies about the Muslims is affecting the mind of the European youth. It is being radicalised.

The next 5 years are crticial as the US pulls out of Afghanistan and State Departmetn's works overtime spreading more lies about Muslims. What will that mean for the young in Europe. More radicalisation? I hope not.

When I heard that a bombing and shooting happened concurrently I thought it would be a native or native convert because jihadis are not normally that competent.

My bet is still on him being a convert because lone killers don’t normally use car bombs. That sort of thing is almost always political and with the nature of the second target I think that much is all but confirmed. The most active political terrorist group is currently Islam so that is still where the money is.

A Norwegian islamophobic terrorist murders young members of an liberal party. One might expect a discussion on growing intolerance towards religious minorities, how extremist views on Muslims can poison a young man's mind, the mainstreaming of far right politics and how those who tout such views bear some responsibility for the loss of innocent lives.

Instead we get a list of all the attacks carried out by Muslim extremist groups. That makes about as much sense as following an attack by alqueda in the US by listing every neo-nazi group in Europe.

This article was absurd. It dealt almost not at all with the rise of nativist, armed, reactionary elements in the USA -- the type of people among whom Brevik would be at home -- and instead meandered off in pursuit of Al Qaeda and overseas assassins. This is in keeping with the august professor's profession as advisor to our national official anti-terrorist organizations, DHS, FBI, CIA, etc., which have focused on the overseas threat to the exclusion of the threat at home. I guess when you're a hammer, every threat is a nail.

The Southern Poverty Law Center's annual census of right-wing militia reports enormous growth among militias in the USA and an abundance of high-powered arms to keep them happy during their war games in which we, the American people, are the Bad Guys.

You can read about and download the SPLC report,
_Rage on the Right_ (2010), here:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/splc-report-number-of-patriot-groups-militias-surges-by-244-in-past-year

Ever since Obama quailed before Republican protests and the DHS was forced to recant its 2009 report on the threat of violence from the right-wing, the government has gone soft on this immanent threat which prolonged economic distress could bring to the surface at any time.

You can download a copy of DHS' _Rightwing Extremism_
here: http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

That the right-wing is the greatest political source of violence in America has been the rule consistently, from lynchings and riots to J. Edgar Hoover's abuses, from McVeigh to the murders of gays and abortion providers, from violence against immigrants to torchings of synagogues and mosques, and so on. The notable exception (so far as we know) has been 9/11.

Our government, however, persists on focusing on the exception and not the rule, perhaps because of a too-close sharing of authoritarian sympathies. All Americans live in peril all the time. Just remember the last time a car with Stars & Strips flying from every window stopped next to you at a red light. If you're like me, you trembled just a bit. With sad but good reason.

One of the biggest problems here is that everyone is trying to blame someone else and see more than there is here. The person to blame is this fanatic, who felt he was justified in mass murder to make his point. This is nothing new, there have been 'mad bombers' for hundreds of yeas now. However, with the advances of technology and immediate information on pretty much everything, what used to be a bundle of dynamite, a mine, or a grenade is now a truck bomb or a suicide vest, and what use to be a pistol is now a full auto rifle. The arms race is to the bottom as well . . .

Those who give themselves over to hate can find constant support and rationalization in their beliefs, and immerse themselves in a morass of paranoia and self-victimization. They go to websites that reinforce their views, tell them that everything they believe is absolutely right, and that anyone disagreeing with them is somehow inferior thus making them a legitimate target. They watch news that tells them what they want to hear, that they're not only right, but things are worse than they thought because of "THOSE" people. They read papers and magazines that agree with their worldview totally and place the blame for all their woes on some other group. Whether it's on the right or left, you can literally surround yourself with voices who agree with you and none who disagree.

And in that positive feedback loop where so many compete to see who can take the most extreme stands, you're inevitably going to have those whose fears and frustrations make them go beyond mere fuming, blogging, and ranting to murderous action. Brevik is but another in a long line of "True Believers" who feel justified in whatever horror they inflict, the worse the better. Timothy MacVeigh was one, Charles Manson another.

While I think that his enablers bear some share of the blame, what it boils down to is that this evil person committed mass murder because of his own, personal hate pure and simple. No conspiracy, no global threat, just another deranged madman who feels sane and justified because he knows that he's right and everyone else is wrong. There's nothing new here, and sadly there will be more like him in the future.

I agree that after 9/11, the US has taken many secure steps and increasing security check up is one of them. Norway is a peaceful country where poeple can freely mnove around and keeping this in mind the recent attcks seems to have been planned. samsung tablet

Both right wing groups and Islamic groups are capable of terrorist attacks and need to be heavily monitored by security services. It is not one or the other they are both a threat. The whole debate over which group poses the most potential threat is to a large degree irrelevant.

In Europe we got over complacent re our right wing groups who many of thought were just too incompetent to be able to launch a big attack - Norway shows how much damage even a lone wolf can cause. That view has clearly now changed. We are facing the music for that mistake. Expect a lot more scrutiny of right wing groups from European intelligence services

Why are there so few successful major terrorist attacks in Europe and US . Good and well financed security services plus populations who do not support their aims.

we should not mention that he’s Christian, because, after all, no religious group would ever condone violence of any kind.But it might be a good idea to start profiling all WoW players.Also, what exactly are “conservative right-wing extremist tendencies”? Either he’s a conservative, or he’s an extremist? Which is it?A tragedy and a nightmare in this country that is not at all used to violence remotely close to this, where weapons practically are banned and murders are a rarity. This slaughter is nothing but the work of a nut ball psychopath. Reviewing media, this has obviously been planned by the perp for a long time. The guy had even set up an organic farm to be able to get hold fertilizer to make the car bomb. Ammonium-nitrate is not sold freely and only for those with certified needs.

Ok, my first knee-jerk reaction: we should not mention that he’s Christian, because, after all, no religious group would ever condone violence of any kind.But it might be a good idea to start profiling all WoW players.Also, what exactly are “conservative right-wing extremist tendencies”? Either he’s a conservative, or he’s an extremist? Which is it?A tragedy and a nightmare in this country that is not at all used to violence remotely close to this, where weapons practically are banned and murders are a rarity. This slaughter is nothing but the work of a nut ball psychopath. Reviewing media, this has obviously been planned by the perp for a long time. The guy had even set up an organic farm to be able to get hold fertilizer to make the car bomb. Ammonium-nitrate is not sold freely and only for those with certified needs. Conservative right wing in this country mean neo-nazi.The more appropriate translation of AUF is the ‘Labour Party Youth Federation’, of the social-democratic Labour Party – the incumbents.

Ok, my first knee-jerk reaction: we should not mention that he’s Christian, because, after all, no religious group would ever condone violence of any kind.But it might be a good idea to start profiling all WoW players.Also, what exactly are “conservative right-wing extremist tendencies”? Either he’s a conservative, or he’s an extremist? Which is it?A tragedy and a nightmare in this country that is not at all used to violence remotely close to this, where weapons practically are banned and murders are a rarity. This slaughter is nothing but the work of a nut ball psychopath. Reviewing media, this has obviously been planned by the perp for a long time. The guy had even set up an organic farm to be able to get hold fertilizer to make the car bomb. Ammonium-nitrate is not sold freely and only for those with certified needs. Conservative right wing in this country meanjenna jameson
.The more appropriate translation of AUF is the ‘Labour Party Youth Federation’, of the social-democratic Labour Party – the incumbents.

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