Originally Posted by CBC News

Two near-simultaneous attacks rocked long-peaceful Norway when a bomb ripped open buildings including the prime minister's office in Oslo, and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at a nearby youth camp.

At least seven people were killed and 15 injured in the bomb blast, the nation's worst attack since the Second World War.

There were unconfirmed reports that up to 30 people were wounded in the shooting at the camp at Utoya, outside the capital, the site of an annual youth event of the ruling Labour Party.

Police Inspector Bjoern Erik Sem-Jacobsen said a suspect in the shooting has been arrested. He said the gunman, who was dressed as a police officer, pulled out a gun and started firing into the crowd of youths.

Acting police chief Sveinung Sponheim told broadcaster NRK that investigators suspect the two attacks are linked.

"It seems to be a co-ordinated terrorist attack going on in Norway at this time," freelance reporter Hallvard Sandberg told CBC News.

Police are asking all civilians to stay away from downtown Oslo and not gather in large groups.

Police told reporters the explosion Friday was caused by "one or more" bombs. They declined to speculate on who was behind the blast.

Asked if the blast was caused by a car bomb, Gjengdal said: "It is possible that a vehicle has been used in this incident, but we can't confirm this."

Gjengdal also said that police have sealed off the office of Norwegian broadcaster TV2 to investigate a suspicious package there.

A Norwegian government official also was quoted as saying that people remain trapped in some buildings hit by the bomb blast. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press.

A senior adviser to the prime minister, Oivind Ostang, said Stoltenberg was working at home Friday and was not in the building.

"There has been one or several powerful explosions in the government district in Oslo," police said in a brief statement.

NRK showed video of a blackened car lying on its side amid the debris.

An injured woman is helped by a passerby in Oslo, Norway, on Friday following an explosion at government headquarters. (Morten Holm/Scanpix/Norway/Associated Press)
Most of the windows in the 20-floor highrise were blown out, and the bottom floor appeared to be gutted. Nearby offices were also heavily damaged and evacuated, including those housing some of Norway's leading newspapers and news agency NTB.

Witness Ole Tommy Pedersen was standing at a bus stop about 100 metres from the high-rise at around 3:30 p.m. local time when the explosion occurred.

"I saw three or four injured people being carried out of the building a few minutes later," Pedersen told AP.

An AP reporter who was in the NTB office said the building shook from the blast and all employees evacuated as the alarm went off. Down in the street, he saw one person with a bleeding leg being led away from the area.

The government building houses the offices of the prime minister and his administration. Several ministries are in surrounding buildings.

Norway dealing with terror charges
The blast comes as Norway grapples with a homegrown terror plot linked to al-Qaeda. Two suspects are in jail awaiting charges.

Last week, a Norwegian prosecutor filed terror charges against an Iraqi-born cleric for threatening Norwegian politicians with death if he is deported from the Scandinavian country.

The indictment centred on statements that Mullah Krekar — the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam — made to various news media, including American network NBC.

Terrorism has also been a concern in neighbouring Denmark since an uproar over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad six years ago. Danish authorities say they have foiled several plots linked to the 2005 newspaper cartoons that triggered protests in Muslim countries.

Last month, a Danish appeals court on Wednesday sentenced a Somali man to 10 years in prison for breaking into the home of the cartoonist.

Originally Posted by Lloydy

everything in moderarion (especially moderation)

Originally Posted by Cerpin Taxt

Secret world governments co-ordinating an attack on a famously peaceful nation in order to re-ignite the fear of terror and justify further atrocities and removal of civil rights?

Originally Posted by adventure

I Just looked up MSF. I that looks like a great cause. Do they have any ties with Doctors without Borders?

Originally Posted by Lloydy

everything in moderarion (especially moderation)

Originally Posted by Flamingnun

I wouldn't rule out the Libyans either, given the level of involvement the Norwegian Air Force has over there - and the Libyan track record for pulling similar shit.

Originally Posted by adventure

I Just looked up MSF. I that looks like a great cause. Do they have any ties with Doctors without Borders?

Originally Posted by Roach

yea, if anything warrants the execution of children , it would be that.

Originally Posted by Lloydy

everything in moderarion (especially moderation)