Re: Horrific terrorist act/ Anne

[Guest guest]

It has been compared to the Murrah building bombing, it has many similarities.And no, I can't get my head around hurting and killing children either. He seems coldblooded beyond belief and comprehension.love/Reb> > > Subject: Horrific terrorist act> To: MSersLife > Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 10:19 PM> > > > We were shocked friday evening to learn of the horrible terrorist attacks in> Norway, with a bombing in the government district of the Norwegian capital,> Oslo, and a shooting at a youth summer camp on the Utøya island, seemingly> linked. And even more shocked when we woke up early Saturday morning to the> news that the death toll was then over 80, and still rising (when we went to> bed on Friday they were still talking about 6-7 dead, as of right now 93> people are confirmed dead, about 80 of them kids from the summer camp, but> about as many are hospitalized, and several people are still missing, so the> death toll is likely to keep rising for a while more). > > > > The police are searching the water around the summer camp island for bodies,> because many of the kids/teens jumped in the water and tried to swim to> safety when the gunman, dressed as a police officer, started to take them> out one by one, and it's believed that some of them drowned in that attempt.> > > > > I really just can't fathom the coldblooded shooting of those kids, and yet> it's in line with what right wing/neo-nazi groups have done before in> Scandinavia (although, not on this scale, I believe). In fact, I said when> we heard the news, that the bombing in Oslo could be just about any group,> it's a very generic terrorist act, so to speak, but the shooting of the kids> on the island summer camp has "nazi" written all over it. > > > > I myself was, as a teenager, the chairman of a youth group that was targeted> by nazi terrorism in the early 90's, and that's where my mind has been going> this weekend, of course. Memories of the sheer terror (very apt word)> involved in escaping a building about to be bombed, hoping to God not to be> discovered by the perpetrators on the way out, all of a sudden very vivid> again. And, of course, also a feeling of gratitude about the unbelievably> happy ending that, despite it all, was granted to us, compared to the> outcome for the kids on the Norwegian summer camp island this past friday. > > > > You have probably read/seen the news about it already, but if not, the CNN> coverage can be found at: > > http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/24/norway.terror.attacks/index.h> tml?hpt=hp_t1> > > > love> > /Reb>

[Guest guest]

As a counselor and a social worker –

too many abnormal psych and criminal justice classes and I still can’t

understand terrorists or Westboro Baptist – at least they won’t be

back to Oklahoma – score for the military and their families

From:

MSersLife [mailto:MSersLife ] On Behalf Of Reb D

Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 12:13

PM

To: MSersLife

Subject: Re: Horrific

terrorist act/ Anne

It has been compared to the Murrah building bombing,

it has many similarities.

And no, I can't get my

head around hurting and killing children either. He seems coldblooded beyond

belief and comprehension.

love

/Reb

>

>

> From: Reb D reb_41se@...

> Subject: Horrific terrorist act

> To: MSersLife

> Date: Sunday, July 24, 2011, 10:19 PM

>

>

>

> We were shocked friday evening to learn of the horrible terrorist attacks

in

> Norway,

with a bombing in the government district of the Norwegian capital,

> Oslo, and

a shooting at a youth summer camp on the Utøya island, seemingly

> linked. And even more shocked when we woke up early Saturday morning to

the

> news that the death toll was then over 80, and still rising (when we went

to

> bed on Friday they were still talking about 6-7 dead, as of right now 93

> people are confirmed dead, about 80 of them kids from the summer camp, but

> about as many are hospitalized, and several people are still missing, so

the

> death toll is likely to keep rising for a while more).

>

>

>

> The police are searching the water around the summer camp island for

bodies,

> because many of the kids/teens jumped in the water and tried to swim to

> safety when the gunman, dressed as a police officer, started to take them

> out one by one, and it's believed that some of them drowned in that

attempt.

>

>

>

>

> I really just can't fathom the coldblooded shooting of those kids, and yet

> it's in line with what right wing/neo-nazi groups have done before in

> Scandinavia (although, not on this scale,

I believe). In fact, I said when

> we heard the news, that the bombing in Oslo could be just about any group,

> it's a very generic terrorist act, so to speak, but the shooting of the

kids

> on the island summer camp has " nazi " written all over it.

>

>

>

> I myself was, as a teenager, the chairman of a youth group that was

targeted

> by nazi terrorism in the early 90's, and that's where my mind has been

going

> this weekend, of course. Memories of the sheer terror (very apt word)

> involved in escaping a building about to be bombed, hoping to God not to

be

> discovered by the perpetrators on the way out, all of a sudden very vivid

> again. And, of course, also a feeling of gratitude about the unbelievably

> happy ending that, despite it all, was granted to us, compared to the

> outcome for the kids on the Norwegian summer camp island this past friday.

>

>

>

> You have probably read/seen the news about it already, but if not, the CNN

> coverage can be found at:

>

>

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/24/norway.terror.attacks/index.h

> tml?hpt=hp_t1

>

>

>

> love

>

> /Reb

>