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| Norway: Islamists, not far-right, main threat | |
| 2012-01-17 | |
| Radical Islam remains the most serious threat faced by Norway despite the attacks by an Islamophobe extremist who killed 77 people last summer, the chief of the security police said on Tuesday. Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway's Police Security Service, said her agency would focus on broad-based dangers from home-grown Islamic extremism even though threats against public officials have risen since the July attacks, which targeted Norway's left wing. "In recent years we have seen a development in which (Muslim) people raised in Norway become radicalized, and for whom Norway and Norwegian society are the enemy," she told a news conference. "These people have a lot of contact with extreme Islamists abroad. They travel to training camps in conflict areas and they travel to participate in armed combat before returning to Norway."
"The number of violent right-wing extremists is still low," she said. She added that a rising tide of hate-filled debate on Internet sites brought "a significant source of uncertainty" to her overall threat assessment. Politicians and their parties, she said, have seen a rise in the number and severity of threats since the July attacks and should expect the problem to continue when Breivik's high-profile trial begins on April 16. | |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 And the guy who is supposed to have trained him is a Muslim, Valery Lunev. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-01-17 14:35 |
| #5 There's certainly a lot of speculation, Anonymoose. Guess we'll have to wait for the trial in April to see what comes out. |
| Posted by: tipper 2012-01-17 14:19 |
| #4 The more I think about it, the more Breivik's attack impresses me as a brilliant strategy, to the point where I half wonder if he developed the whole plan on his own. Just looking at it as a military operation, he covered the bases as if he had followed a Soviet unconventional operational plan, which was the Russian version of the operations order that has long been used by the US military. Importantly, he included a few details found in the Soviet scheme *not* found in the US version. This is why I paid a great deal of attention to the assertion that he had traveled to a paramilitary training camp in Belarus several times. If they taught him planning there, that is the kind of planning they would teach him. And were it a well planned operation, it performed like clockwork, doing exactly what he wanted it to do. As an aside, this type of planning was first devised by Sun Tzu, and his basic format remains relatively unchanged as the best scheme ever devised to plan military operations. It is used by every modern army. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-01-17 13:37 |
| #3 Since the "far right" is a response to the threat from Islamists they're non-seperable. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-01-17 11:30 |
| #2 OOPS! 2011!. Jeepers Peepers. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-17 08:24 |
| #1 2001 was a record in crimes of rape in Norway 109. Oslo had just about all of them. Three in other cities. 2011 was a record year for the cinema theater visits. The Troll Hunter (Trolljegeren) is a movie they have produced and it is the number one sold DVD Blue Ray product. Oil sales kept economy humming. They expect overall sales of oil to decrease 2012. They have introduced scanners at airports seeing increased potential for problems. Like England many who have fought in Arab spring are coming back to do whatever they will do. One English speaking person was amazed how well the Libyan rebels spoke English. Even had local sound to it. |
| Posted by: Dale 2012-01-17 08:22 |