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This picture should tell you everything you need to know.
Photo: AFP/Getty Images
Michelle Malkin has great coverage here, as does The Jawa Report, Reuters, the Telegraph, and many others around the web.
Someone in one of the foreign newspapers said Norway has “lost its innocence.” I’ve got news for you, sir…as long as radical Islam is on the march, no country can claim innocence any longer. It’s time to stop the P.C. crap and start fighting this war like we mean it.
***UPDATE 07/22/11 2349 HRS ET***
It appears this may not have been related to Islamic-extremism, but perhaps a “lone wolf” type scenario. I will not apologize for my initial reaction due to all the events and actions that surrounded this tragedy, coupled with the empiric evidence out there about the majority of terrorist attacks – especially bombings. Even though officials have dismissed this possibility in part, I am still not convinced it was NOT a Nordic man who is an Islamic convert. Only time will tell.
***UPDATE 07/232/11 1641 HRS ET***
Well, so far it appears that this was just a lone wolf, but sources say there was possibly a second shooter on the island. This was really my thinking, too, because now the death toll is over 80. Plus, the shootings WITH the VBIED bombs seem just impossible for one person to pull off. I am still waiting for all the details to come out, but I am willing to say right here and now that I might have been wrong in my original post. As some are saying, this appears to be Oslo’s “Oklahoma City.” As someone who lived in Oklahoma City on April 15, 1995, I know all about that, and truthfully when I first saw the pictures of the buildings in Oslo, that was exactly what I thought of.
Having said this, I still say there is no room for P.C. crap anymore. Regardless of these lone wolf type situations.