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| Norway used as a terror base |
| 2006-02-04 |
| Islamic extremists are using Norway as a base for terrorist operations overseas, but the head of Norway's security police claims they're being watched. "We believe we have control," Jørn Holme, who heads the equivalent of Norway's national security agency (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste, PST), told newspaper Dagbladet on Friday. "But as with any other country's security police, we can't make any guarantees." Holme said there are people in Norway "who support terror" in other countries. "They use Norway as a base," he said. He stressed that the terror groups, or cells, are few, but dangerous. Last week Holme pointed to second- and third-generation immigrants in Norway as representing the largest challenge to PST's battle against terrorism. He toned down the threat that asylum seekers earlier were believed to represent. He told Dagbladet that he views the threat of a terrorist act in Norway as "moderate." At the same time, however, he urged Norwegians not to become overly alarmed, and to recognize the difference between the vast majority of Muslims and Islamic extremists. He likened it to the difference between church-goers and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Muslim leaders in Norway were also urging moderation among their followers, with one noting that the controversy stemming from publication of a cartoon offensive to Muslims had grown out of proportion. He told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Friday that "unfortunately, it's been the extremists who are setting the agenda here," first by a Christian magazine publishing the cartoon in Norway and then by Islamic extremists reacting violently to it. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 Well, the Spetzies are causing anarchies and mayhems on one side of the Mediterranean, so why not NATO's [and Europe's]northern flanks. DEnmark > approxi one-half, iff not most, of Germany and the feared German Bundeswehr + Poland is flanked before the shooting starts. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-02-04 21:29 |
| #3 Norway has also been a base for the Russian mob. A stolen car ring out of Chicago was shipping stolen SUV's from Chicago to Norway, where they were driven across the border to Russia in the mid '90's. I hope they are watching the ports, as that is how the blackmarket moves goods. |
| Posted by: Danielle 2006-02-04 12:13 |
| #2 Hmm, Norway. A little bit closer to Greenland. Are the alanists acclimating themselves for the big push to take over Greenland and the potential oil reserves? Say, isn't Greenland where Superman keeps his doomsday machine? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2006-02-04 10:11 |
| #1 Mullah Krekar hangs his turban there. He was/is the spiritual leader of Ansar al-Islam... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2006-02-04 01:25 |