A government building burns in downtown Oslo from the explosion there Friday 22 July, 2011, which no group has yet claimed responsibility for.
Yet President Barack Obama reacted immediately to the news of the atrocity to insinuate an Islamic connection and to justify America's war on terror.
Obama spoke on Friday while hosting New Zealand Prime Minister John Key in the White House.
The US President said of the attacks: "It's a reminder that the entire international community has a stake in preventing this kind of terror from occurring, and that we have to work co-operatively together both on intelligence and in terms of prevention of these kinds of horrible attacks."
Prime Minister Key added: "If it is an act of global terrorism I think it shows that no country, large or small, is immune from that risk, and that is why New Zealand plays its part in Afghanistan as we try and join others like the United States in making the world a safer place," he said.
Comment: Yes, the bloodbath was a "reminder" to Norway that it must take the War on Terror seriously and it must "play its part" in the imperial wars of aggression, otherwise more terrorism will be carried out against their population.
On Friday evening local time, 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik was captured by police moments after he went on a two-hour shooting rampage at a youth summer camp, killing at least 84 people, most of whom were aged between 14 and 18.
Hundreds of teenagers had gathered on the island of Otoeya, about 20 miles northwest of the capital, Oslo, for an annual summer camp organised by the Scandinavian country's ruling Labour party.
Six-foot blond-haired Breivik was heavily armed and dressed as a policeman when he arrived on the island and beckoned the youths to assemble near him. About two hours earlier, a massive car bomb had exploded in the downtown area of Oslo ripping through government buildings and killing at least seven.
Comment: We have a slightly different take on it to the author. What if Obama and New Zealand president John Key were not insinuating that Islamic fundies were responsible? Consider for a second that these two men know full well that 'Islamic terrorism' is bogus. Now re-read their pre-planned press statements: Both appear to be thinly veiled messages: Obama is saying that the attacks were carried out to remind Norway that they must follow the diktats of the 'International Community' i.e. the One World Government. Key, by referencing his country's acceptable behaviour with respect to its involvement in Afghanistan, is letting on that he knows his country won't suffer such attacks as long as it plays by the rules set by the Powers That Be. And he is backing Obama up by insinuating that the attacks were a consequence of Norway's reluctance to play ball in Libya.