BULLETIN – NORWAY – AT 10:53 P.M. ET:  Norwegian police now say more than 80 kids were murdered by the gunman who attacked them at a politically related outing earlier today.  Presumably, this same individual, some time before, set off a huge bomb outside the building housing the prime minister's office.

COMMENT:  This is getting awfully strange.  Why did it take police so many hours to admit to such a huge casualty toll?  Before this announcement we were told that 17 were dead.  That's quite a difference, 80 plus as opposed to 17.

Also, how does one man kill 80 people...and then get captured so easily?  We have eyewitness reports that say the kids scattered as soon as the shooting started.   Was there an accomplice?

We wrote below that the "sole gunman" scenario, which apparently is being pushed by unidentified Norwegian "officials," is awfully convenient for a government that never took terrorism seriously, and was criticized for it by American security experts. 

News reports say the police claim the one man in custody has "right-wing" sympathies.  Let's see, and let's see what they mean by "right wing."

There's a lot of explaining to do.

July 22, 2011