Three brothers have been arrested in Norway linked to an explosion outside the US embassy in the capital, Oslo, on Sunday.
The authorities believe the blast was caused by an improvised device that was placed at the building’s entrance. It caused minor damage and no injuries were reported.
The brothers, all in their 20s, are Norwegian citizens with links to Iraq, Norway’s police attorney Christian Hatlo told a press conference on Wednesday.
A city had a rude awakening when it tested its electric buses for security flaws.
Some cities have gone all-in on their dedication to renewable energy and electric public transportation, but discovering that a jurisdiction does not actually control its own public property likely was not part of the idea.
h/t SC
Russian hackers took control of a Norwegian dam this year, opening a floodgate and allowing water to flow unnoticed for four hours, Norway’s intelligence service has said.
The admission, by the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), marks the first time that Oslo has formally attributed the cyber-attack in April on Bremanger, western Norway, to Moscow.
The attack on the hydropower dam, which produces electricity, released 500 litres (132 gallons) of water a second for four hours until the incident was detected and stopped.
KIRKENES, Norway—Paranoia pervades the placid border town of Kirkenes in Norway’s far north. Residents are routinely trailed by unknown men. The Wall Street Journal’s camera crew was photographed and followed around town by a suspicious vehicle with no license plate. Most locals warn you to keep your wits about you because, as one said in a hushed tone, “the Russians are watching.”
The Journal’s video shows us accompanying Norway’s domestic intelligence agency, the PST, on patrol for Russian spies. We meet residents convinced they are under Russian surveillance and we find out firsthand what it feels like to be trailed.
Norway’s government, whose coalition ended this week, is not the first to collapse over bad energy policies linked to mad climate politics. That title incontestably goes to Northern Ireland in 2017, where poor implementation of the UK’s renewable heat scheme led to widespread suspected fraud (heating empty sheds to claim subsidies) and the end of the power sharing agreement between Sinn Fein and the DUP. It may, however, be even more consequential for the UK.
The politics of the collapse are quite dull, but echo growing global alarm over high prices linked to the high cost of a low-carbon transition.
Police in Norway have banned a planned protest including the burning of a copy of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, hours after the Turkish foreign ministry summoned the Norwegian ambassador to complain.
A group of protesters planned to burn a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in Oslo on Friday, police said.
Is it worth having Turkey in NATO?
Norway seems to be going down the road to the totalitarian control of non-progressive ideas. How does that differ from the Taliban?
When Islamist extremism and its progressive sister appear to be on different sides of the same coin.
And how does it relate to us?
We have become accustomed to hearing about phenomena of extreme persecution under the auspices of the rule of law, mainly from the countries of the Middle East. Afghanistan, which forbids women to walk alone in the street, Iran, where there is a “morality police” that beats women for not wearing the hijab properly, sometimes to the point of death. Then there is Saudi Arabia where women are required to show permission from their husbands to get married, work, or open a bank account, and so on.
A suspected Russian spy who posed as a Brazilian academic before his arrest this week by Norway’s domestic security agency spent years studying at Canadian universities with a focus on Arctic security issues.
The man, who called himself José Assis Giammaria, worked as researcher at the University of Tromsø and was arrested on suspicion he had entered Norway under false pretences. On Friday, prosecutor Thomas Blom named the man as Mikhail Mikushin, adding that Norway’s domestic security agency was “not positively sure of his identity, but we are quite certain that he is not Brazilian”.
OSLO, Sept 26 (Reuters) – Norwegian police said on Monday two men had been arrested on Sunday on suspicion of involvement in a mass shooting that killed two people and wounded 21 in and around an Oslo gay bar in June.
A Somali citizen in his 40s and a Norwegian one in his 30s, each with prior involvement in criminal activity, were arrested by police on Sunday, Oslo police said in a statement.
Police last week said its hypothesis that the shooting was an act of terrorism had been strengthened during its investigation.
This is the moment a car carrying the leader of a Norwegian anti-Islam group was rammed off the road after he staged a Koran-burning stunt outside a mosque.
Lars Thorsen, leader of provocateur group Stop the Islamisation of Norway (SIAN), was driving towards the capital city of Oslo on Saturday around 3pm when the attack happened.
Footage taken by anti-immigration activists from Alternativ Media riding in the car behind shows a grey Mercedes B-Class ramming Thorsen’s military-style jeep, sending it spinning off the road and on to its roof.
👉Yüce Rabb’im; Kâbeyi nasıl koruduysa, Kutsal Kitab’ımızı da mutlaka koruyacaktır…
👉haa inananlar buna “ilahi adalet” der,
inanmayanlar trafik kazası…
📌(İslam düşmanı “lars thorsen”in, Kur’an yakarken aracıyla takla attığı görüntüler) pic.twitter.com/Ti3S9QAeEZ— m.uz…(yerli) (@bilecikli_mahi) July 5, 2022
A suspected Islamist terrorist shot up a gay bar on the eve of Pride. Where’s the anger?
So, have we all just moved on from the Oslo shooting? It’s been a few days since a suspected Islamist terrorist walked into a gay bar, a jazz club and pub on the eve of Oslo’s Pride march armed with a fully automatic weapon and opened fire, killing two people and wounding 21. But in the British media, at least, it seems to have come and gone without really troubling the news agenda or the opinion pages.
A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway’s capital, Oslo.
Two people were killed and 21 injured, 10 of them seriously, in a busy nightlife district early on Saturday.
Police said they consider the attack an act of extreme Islamist terrorism.
The victims were shot in and outside the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, and near the Herr Nilsen jazz club and another pub.
A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder and terrorist acts after a shooting in the centre of Norway’s capital, Oslo.
Two people were killed and 21 injured in the overnight attack on a busy nightlife district.
There was gunfire at about 01:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Saturday, in three locations including a gay bar.
Shots were fired at the London Pub, a popular LGBTQ+ venue, and near the Herr Nilsen jazz club and a pub.
Norwegian Iranian being investigated for terrorist shooting at Gay bar and 2 other locations
Two people were killed and 21 injured in three consecutive shootings in Norway’s capital, Oslo, including in a gay bar. All Pride events have now been cancelled.
Authorities in Oslo said a 42-year-old Norwegian national of Iranian origin, who was previously known to police, had been arrested within minutes of the shootings and was believed to be the sole perpetrator.
The state prosecutor, Christian Hatlo, told a news conference on Saturday that 10 people had been seriously injured in the shootings and 11 more were slightly wounded. Two weapons, a pistol and an automatic rifle, had been seized, he said.
A shirtless man brandishing a knife attacked residents and a police officer on Tuesday before being shot. A police spokesman confirmed that the officer had been injured but not critically.
Footage and photos shared online show a law enforcement vehicle ramming a shirtless man in the Norwegian capital as he brandished a knife and reportedly threatened passersby.
Ayer fue en Cannes (Francia) y hoy es en Oslo (Noruega) donde un policía es atacado con arma blanca por un individuo al grito de "Alá es grande" pic.twitter.com/zH4Oke8OFM
— Enrique Rodríguez (@rodriguezcoello) November 9, 2021
Again we’re seeing that if an act of terror has an Islamic connection, it will need to be played down or ignored altogether.
On Wednesday, October 13, Espen Andersen Bråthen killed five people with a bow and arrow in Kongsberg, Norway. On Thursday, Norwegian police declared it an act of Islamic terrorism. But on Saturday, police inspector Per Thomas Omholt made a baffling announcement.
Even though Bråthen said in a 2017 video that he’s a Muslim, and has confirmed this to police since his arrest, Omholt expressed doubt about the conversion: “The hypothesis that he has converted to Islam has been weakened,” and the hypothesis that his actions can instead be explained by a mental disorder has been strengthened.
