: Re: Horrific terrorist act

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Thank you, ! I hope so too.love/Reb>> Prayers. May God bring comfort...> > T> > in WY> Practical Blackwork Designs> http://practicalblackwork.com> http://practical-blackwork.blogspot.com > > "You get a wonderful view from the point of no return..."> Horrific terrorist act> > > 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>