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horror Sundvollen, July 23 "People ran everywhere. They panicked and climbed into trees. People got trampled," Kursetgjerde told Reuters outside a hotel in the town of Sundvollen, near the forested island. The killer, dressed as a policeman, "would tell people to come over: 'It's OK, you're safe, we're coming to help you.' And then I saw about 20 people come towards him and he shot them at close range," he said. Kursetgjerde said he ran and hid between cliffs, then swam out into the lake and nearly drowned. "Someone (in a boat) rescued me. They saved my life." A 32-year-old Norwegian was arrested after 85 people died in the island shootings, on top of the seven killed in the earlier bomb blast. "I saw he had a handgun," Thorbjoern Vereive, 22, told Reuters. "Some people said he also had something that looked like a rifle." "When I swam out into the water he shot all my friends. He shot them when they were running away. I hid in a cave and had to lie in the water. There were people hiding in the cave and he tried to lure people out by saying, 'It's safe, come out.'" "He picked them out, one by one. He was mostly silent. It looked like it didn't bother him. He tried to shoot me and I saw the bullet pass right next to me. I thought I was going to die." Another youth, Dana Barzingi, described the massacre to state broadcaster NRK. "It was a bloodbath. There was nowhere to flee, only the water, and when people tried to swim away he just shot them." "He kept coming," said Barzingi. "He went around and around pretending to be a rescue worker and said people should come to get help. Then he shot them." One survivor estimated that the shooting went on for about an hour after starting at about 5:30 p.m. A police spokesman told reporters the shooting took place over a period of almost 90 minutes.
— Reuters I wanted to personally extend my condolences to the people of Norway. It's a reminder that the entire international community holds a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring. We have to work cooperatively together both on intelligence and in terms of prevention of these kinds of horrible attacks. The loss of life in Norway has been absolutely horrific. It is on a scale that is hard to comprehend. We will want to make sure that we learn, like others, any lessons there are to learn about how to be more secure against horrific outrages like this. And that is something we can discuss at the National Security Council on Monday. In this very serious and sad situation we stand firmly at the side of the Norwegian people, who are living through one of their darkest days. Our thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones.
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Suspect attacked Islam, multi-culturalism online
Oslo, July 23 The police said Anders Behring Breivik, detained by police after 85 people were gunned down at a youth camp and another seven killed in a bomb attack on Friday, was unknown to them and his Internet activity traced so far included no calls to violence. In comments from 2009-2010 to other people’s articles on website www.document.no <http://www.document.no>, which calls itself critical of Islam, Breivik criticised European policies of trying to accommodate the cultures of different ethnic groups. “When did multi-culturalism cease to be an ideology designed to deconstruct European culture, traditions, identity and nation-states?” said one his entries, posted on February 2, 2010. Another entry dated February 16 last year said: “According to two studies, 13 percent of young British Muslims aged between 15 and 25 support al Qaeda ideology.” Breivik wrote he was a backer of the “Vienna School of Thought”, which was against multi-culturalism and the spread of Islam. He also wrote he admired Geert Wilders, the populist anti-Islam Dutch politician, for following that school. Wilders said in a statement on Saturday: “I despise everything he stands for and everything he did.” Breivik, who attended a middle class high school called Handelsgym in central Oslo, had also been a member of the Progress Party, the second-largest in parliament, the party’s head of communications Fredrik Farber said. He was a member from 2004 to 2006 and in its youth party from 1997-2006/2007. The Progress Party wants far tighter restrictions on immigration, whereas the centre-left government backs multi-culturalism. The party leads some public opinion polls. A politician who met Breivik in 2002-2003, when he was apparently interested in local Oslo politics, said he did not attract attention. “I got the impression that he was a modest person ... he was well dressed, it seemed like he was well educated,” Joeran Kallmyr, 33, an Oslo municipality politician representing the Progressive Party, said.
— Reuters The suspect held over a deadly bomb attack had bought six tonnes of fertiliser in May, a spokeswoman for a farm inputs cooperative said on Saturday. “We sold him six tonnes of fertiliser, which is a relatively standard order,” Oddny Estenstad told AFP, adding the delivery was made on May 4. Fertiliser can be used as an ingredient to make bombs. On his Facebook profile, the suspect identified by Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old ethnic Norwegian describes himself as the head of Breivik Geofarm, an organic farm. Estenstad described the fertiliser order as “small” and “usual” for vegetable producers and explained it was routine for producers to buy fertiliser at this time of year.
— AFP
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Imran fears revolt in Pak army
Lahore, July 23 “The army is fighting America’s war. Now on its order, the Pakistan army is set to launch an operation in North Waziristan, where according to the US 5,000 Taliban are hiding. “Will the Pakistan army strike against 3,50,000 people living there to hunt down 5,000?” Imran said while explaining his claim that there would be a revolt in the army. “The operation will certainly cause massive casualties among innocent people,” Imran Khan, who heads the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party, told a gathering in Lahore yesterday. He questioned how a handful of terrorists engaged some 1,500 security personnel during the attack on a naval airbase in Karachi in May. “Even Rambo could not have done this. It shows there is resentment among army officials, who are against fighting with their own men,” said Imran, who had once offered to mediate between the government and the Taliban. Imran said there was a need to revise Pakistan’s policy on the war on terror. “Innocent people are being killed in US drone attacks and the rulers shamelessly have given licence to the US to kill Pakistani citizens,” he said.
— PTI
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Train crash leaves 32 dead in China Beijing, July 23 State television showed one or possibly two carriages on the ground under the bridge, with another hanging above it. Several other carriages derailed. More than 100 people have been taken to hospital, Xinhua said. One train was heading from Beijing to the coastal city of Fuzhou, the other was running from Zhejiang provincial capital Hangzhou, also to Fuzhou. "The train suddenly shook violently, casting luggage all around," Xinhua quoted survivor Liu Hongtao as saying. "Passengers cried for help but no crew responded.” — Reuters
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Hacking scandal engulfs more UK newspapers London, July 23 In a dramatic turn to the scandal, former journalists at the Mirror group said they witnessed phone hacking at their newspapers and that the practice was “endemic”. In fresh developments, James Hipwell, a former journalist of the Daily Mirror told The Independent that he would be willing to testify in front of a public inquiry into the episode headed by Justice Brian Leveson. The BBC also quoted a former employee of the Sunday Mirror as claiming that he witnessed routine phone hacking in the newsroom, with celebrities including actress Liz Hurley and footballer Rio Ferdinand targeted. The two newspapers were among the main competitors of News International’s tabloids. — PTI
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Norwegian PM Jens Stoltenberg embraces Eskil Pedersen, leader of the Norwegian Labour Youth league and survivor of the Utoeya island shooting, at a hotel where survivors of the youth camp attack are being reunited with their families in
Sundvolden, 40 km from Oslo, on Saturday. — AFP
