Krekar deportation talks resume

Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari was in Norway this week for talks with Norwegian officials that included a pending deportation of Mullah Krekar, the Islamic cleric who’s been deemed a threat to Norway’s national security. Norwegian officials were once again unable, however, to extract the guarantee they need that Krekar, a former guerrilla leader in [...]

Politicians debate security measures

Nine months after a terrorist’s bomb severely damaged Norway’s government headquarters and left eight people dead, the street running by the country’s Parliament building just a few blocks away remains open to traffic. Neither city nor state politicians have ordered the street blocked off, and they’re still debating other security measures as well. Nor have [...]

Flowers brighten dark days in court

Everyone using the main entrance into the Oslo City Court is now met by a growing array of flowers that Norwegians have been placing in honor of the victims of last summer’s terrorist attacks. As testimony at the terrorist’s trial turned on Tuesday to autopsy reports and details of his bombing, the flowers offered a [...]

King hails diversity during terror trial

As the trial of Norway’s home-grown, anti-immigration terrorist grinds on in an Oslo courtroom, the country’s monarch opted to make the latest of no less than four recent visits to one of the city’s most multi-cultural areas. There’s little doubt King Harald V is sending a strong signal of support for the multiculturalism that terror [...]

Commission questions sanity report

New questions arose on Monday over a second court-appointed psychiatrists’ report that found terror defendant Anders Behring Brevik to be sane and not suffering from psychosis. A state commission that reviews such reports has asked for additional information. The commission doesn’t think that the two psychiatrists who examined Breivik before his trial started last week [...]

Breivik’s ‘apology’ branded ‘pathetic’

‘Terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik issued what he called was a “full apology” to some of those injured and killed in his bomb attack on Norway’s government last summer, but only those who had no ties to the state ministries he was targeting. A representative for all victims of the bombing called his apology “pathetic.” Breivik, [...]

Norway’s traumatic moment of truth

NEWS ANALYSIS: After describing himself as a self-appointed executionist on Thursday, Anders Behring Breivik was back on the witness stand in Oslo on Friday to answer more questions about his attacks of July 22. As survivors and families of victims braced for more gruesome details, questions keep arising about why it’s necessary, as one survivor [...]

More tears after new brutal testimony

Grown men were reduced to tears once again, as were many others, when terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik re-traced his murderous steps in an Oslo courtroom on Friday. Repeated attempts by attorneys to get Breivik to show any signs of emotion or empathy himself, though, were unsuccessful. “It was very, very tough to listen to [...]

‘Can’t believe what we’re hearing’

Some Norwegians were calling Thursday the “worst day ever” in a local court, and attorneys warned that Friday would be even worse. Survivors and families of the victims of last summer’s terrorist attacks in Oslo were severely shaken as they listened to the latest unflinching testimony of the man who carried out what he claims [...]

Royal Palace was Breivik’s third target

Mass murder- and terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik testified in court on Thursday that he originally planned to bomb three targets in Oslo including the Royal Palace, and then go on a shooting spree downtown until he was shot himself. He settled on bombing government headquarters and a massacre at a Labour Party summer camp. [...]

Pressure grows on terror defendant

Anders Behring Breivik ended up dropping his customary and offensive extremist salute when he entered the courtroom in Oslo on the fourth day of his 10-week trial on mass murder and terrorism charges. It was another sign that Breivik, who’s now being grilled by prosecutors, is under increasing pressure as he defends his attacks that [...]

Breivik challenged after days in court

Reaction has been swift and strong to remarks terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik has been making in court this week, when he bragged about his deadly attacks on July 22 and ended Wednesday’s session by saying Norway’s maximum prison term of 21 years is “pathetic.” He thinks he should either be released or be sentenced [...]

Prosecutors probe Breivik’s network

Norway’s home-grown right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik was back on the witness stand in Oslo on Wednesday, with prosecutors continuing to question his background and alleged network of supporters and mentors. Prosecutors Inga Bejer Engh and Svein Holden were concentrating Wednesday on his encounters with right-wing extremist circles both in and out of Norway, raising [...]

Police intelligence unit under probe

Norway police intelligence unit PST (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) is itself under investigation, after Justice Minister Grete Faremo called for an “external evaluation” of how PST sets its priorities. The issue has been a matter of political and media debate since it emerged last year that PST had failed to follow up on a tip about terror [...]

Breivik’s mother avoids testifying

The mother of mass murder and terror defendant Anders Behring Breivik has been granted permission to refuse to testify at her son’s trial, which started this week. Court officials said she won the reprieve for health-related reasons. Both the prosecution and defense attorneys reportedly had been interested in questioning her in court on Breivik’s background [...]

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