Huge explosion at the government quarters in Oslo.

AcidHell2 said:
I can't see it being that, the damage is from inside the building from those pics. Very little damage visible apart from broken windows.
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Depends on where the car bomb(s) was located. There's been plenty of car bombs in Northern Ireland that have gone off and done very little in terms of what you would expect to be damage from a large car bomb, because of the materials used or the devices not going off completely. But the effect of the blast on windows will be huge. Particularly in a built up city centre.
 
Brian8bit said:
Depends on where the car bomb(s) was located. There's been plenty of car bombs in Northern Ireland that have gone off and done very little in terms of what you would expect to be damage from a large car bomb, because of the materials used or the devices not going off completely. But the effect of the blast on windows will be huge. Particularly in a built up city centre.
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I'm only going by 4 or 5 pictures, but damage seems to be towards the upper floors in one place.
 
Too early to say yet as there will be a lot of chaos following the blast.

If it was a large bomb there should be a crater of some kind.

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Marriot bombing in Pakistan.
 
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White Mouse said:
This is the great city (or was) where in the past 5 years 100% of violent rapes and 65-70% of all other 'rapes' are committed by non-western immigrants?
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"Rape" is a bit harsh, it's more like simple misinterpreted cross-cultural spontaneous sexual affection.
 
Looks like 2 internal explosions which makes sense looking at the pics.

Two explosions rocked government buildings in Oslo, Norway, on Friday, state TV and witnesses said.

Windows in several buildings had been blown out, and people were in the street bleeding, state TV broadcaster NRK said on its website.

A first explosion was followed by a second, a reporter for Norwegian state broadcaster NRK told CNN on Friday.

One explosion happened near a government building housing the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, said the reporter, Linda Reinholdsen. Another hit near the Norwegian parliament, she said.

Several buildings in Oslo were on fire, she said, and smoke was pouring from them.

Walter Gibbs, a journalist with Reuters, said he saw eight injured people, including two or three with serious wounds and one who looked dead.

Gibbs said he believes one explosion happened on an upper floor of a main government building. He said it blew out every window on the side of the building where the blast occurred.

One of the blasts damaged the Oil Ministry and left it in flames, he said.

Reuters reported that Stoltenberg was safe.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/22/norway.explosion/
 
In one of the photos above you can see that some of the external cladding on the building has been blown off and in the photo of all the windows on the side of the building most of the window frames have been blown in the way.
 
Greebo said:
Looks like 2 internal explosions which makes sense looking at the pics.
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If it is internal explosions then nearby CCTV footage will need to be examined very carefully. I can also expect police to question the employees of that building intensily to see who went in and out.
 
AcidHell2 said:
I'm only going by 4 or 5 pictures, but damage seems to be towards the upper floors in one place.
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Again, depends on the location of the vehicles, the direction the blast took and the size of the devices and what the shock wave bounced off and the direction it bounced.

Like the Banbridge bomb in the late 90s in the run up to Omagh, the car was parked in the centre of town (I think it was a 500lb device, relatively small), the area directly around the bomb was destroyed (the car was obliterated) but the windows where blown out the entire length of the street on both sides (which is why blasts in built up areas always look more significant than they are, with office stuff flying out of windows and glass everywhere). Buildings just round the corner where completely unaffected because of the direction of the blast. Same with Moira (another 500lb device). Because of the position of the bomb, the police station was completely destroyed, the building beside the device was only partially destroyed and the windows in most of the buildings in the street were blown out.
 
Whilst it's obviously too early to say as no one has claimed responsibility, I think we all know it's highly likely to be Islamic fundamentalists who have carried this out.

Nice to see we aren't the only western country to benefit from the "enrichment" these foreign cultures bring to our lives....
 
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