{"id":10512,"date":"2011-07-22T08:03:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=10512"},"modified":"2011-07-22T08:05:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T16:05:04","slug":"car-bomb-in-oslo-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/car-bomb-in-oslo-norway\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Bomb in Oslo, Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a disastrous explosion outside a government building in the Norwegian city of Oslo. At least one explosion was a car bomb. Responsibility for the apparent attack has not been confirmed, but <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/oslo-explosion-blast-result-massive-vehicle-bomb-sources\/story?id=14134197\">here are some speculations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this month, a Norwegian prosecutor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=14052401\" target=\"_blank\">filed terrorism charges<\/a> against an Iraqi-born cleric who had allegedly threatened the lives of Norwegian politicians. Mullah Krekar, the founder of the Kurdish Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, said in a news conference in 2010 that if he was deported from Norway he would be killed and, therefore, Norwegian politicians deserved the same fate, according to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory?id=14052401\" target=\"_blank\">AP report<\/a>. The Norwegian government had considered deporting Krekar because he was seen as a national security threat.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the Iraq War, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell said Ansar al-Islam was the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/story?id=129840&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">sinister nexus<\/a> between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In July 2010, Norway arrested two alleged al Qaeda operatives who were allegedly plotting attacks similar to the attack planned by Najibullah Zazi on the New York City subway system. A third Norwegian resident was arrested in Germany in connection with the same alleged plot.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Norwegian authorities held three men linked to an alleged plot to attack the U.S. and Israeli embassies in Oslo.<\/p>\n<p>As part of NATO operations against the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, two Norwegian fighter jets bombed Gadhafi&#8217;s Tripoli compound in April.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View some footage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/blogpost\/post\/oslo-explosion-rocks-government-building-video\/2011\/07\/22\/gIQAqcBWTI_blog.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a disastrous explosion outside a government building in the Norwegian city of Oslo. At least one explosion was a car bomb. Responsibility for the apparent attack has not been confirmed, but here are some speculations: Earlier this month, a Norwegian prosecutor\u00a0filed terrorism charges against an Iraqi-born cleric who had allegedly threatened the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10515,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10512\/revisions\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}