80 people dead in Norway after a camp shooting (update from 2011)

[Rams Fan]

OSLO, Norway (AP) — A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. It took investigators several hours to begin to realize the full scope of Friday's massacre, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven and that police say was set off by the same suspect.
The mass shootings are among the worst in history. With the blast outside the prime minister's office, they formed the deadliest day of terror in Western Europe since the 2004 Madrid train bombings killed 191.
Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told reporters Satyrday that he had spent many summers on the island of Utoya, which was hosting a youth retreat for his party.
Utoya is "my childhood paradise that yesterday was transformed into Hell," Stoltenberg said at a news conference in the capital.
Police initially said about 10 were killed at the forested camp on the island, but some survivors said they thought the toll was much higher. Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early Saturday they had discovered many more victims.
"It's taken time to search the area. What we know now is that we can say that there are at least 80 killed at Utoya," Maeland said. "It goes without saying that this gives dimensions to this incident that are exceptional."
Maeland said the death toll could rise even more. He said others were severely wounded, but police didn't know how many were hurt.
The island is about 500 yards (meters) from one shore of Tyrifjorden lake, an oddly shaped body of water that is 15 miles (25 kilometers) at its longest and 8 miles (12 kilometers) at its widest.
A suspect in the shootings and the Oslo explosion was arrested. Though police did not release his name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK identified him as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik and said police searched his Oslo apartment overnight. NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian.
National police chief Sveinung Sponheim told NRK that the suspected gunman's Internet postings "suggest that he has some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views, but whether that was a motivation for the actual act remains to be seen."
A police official said the suspect appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that "it seems like this is not linked to any international terrorist organizations at all." The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that information had not been officially released by Norway's police.
"It seems it's not Islamic-terror related," the official said. "This seems like a madman's work."
Stoltenberg said Saturday morning that it was too early to comment on the gunman's motives.

http://news.yahoo.com/norway-horror-...021706287.html

[The_Doctor10]

There's 8 pages of reaction to Amy ****ing winehouse and 2 for this. Jfc

[CosmicPal]

Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury

There's 8 pages of reaction to Amy ****ing winehouse and 2 for this. Jfc

I hear you.

[MIAdragon]

So ****ing sad, kids they were just kids.

[Rams Fan]

Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury

There's 8 pages of reaction to Amy ****ing winehouse and 2 for this. Jfc

Post of the year.

[Brianfo]

Originally Posted by mlyonsd

They said this morning on the Today show the longest prison term for any crime in Norway was 21 years. I can't believe that. They must have a special clause for nut cases.

You watch the today show?? Turn in your man-card.

[MIAdragon]

Originally Posted by Brianfo

You watch the today show?? Turn in your man-card.

[kysirsoze]

Originally Posted by Unleash_the_Phury

There's 8 pages of reaction to Amy ****ing winehouse and 2 for this. Jfc

Maybe because it's easier to crack stupid jokes about the death of a drug addict?

[Param]

http://www.mediafire.com/?1khq2dp93obby2v

Here's a pdf if anyone wants to read his book.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

This is exactly why people should be armed at all times. Everyone should always carry a firearm. And a knife. And a hand grenade. And a flamethrower.

[MIAdragon]

http://news.yahoo.com/court-finds-no...082140655.html

21 years Maximum

[DaFace]

We apparently have considerably harsher penalties in this country.

[Brock]

That's like 3 months per body.

[saphojunkie]

Someone needs to just shoot the guy. What'll they do? Make you sit in the corner for half an hour?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Hog Farmer

This is exactly why people should be armed at all times. Everyone should always carry a firearm. And a knife. And a hand grenade. And a flamethrower.

They need to put better handles on the hand grenades. I'm always dropping mine.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by MIAdragon

http://news.yahoo.com/court-finds-no...082140655.html

21 years Maximum

Actually, they can keep him detained forever if they deem him to still be a threat to society.

He's never getting out.