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Norway to publish report on response to 22 July attacks

Report on how so many people were killed that day is expected to be highly critical of the official response to the attacks.

THE NORWEGIAN GOVERNMENT is to release a report today on the response to the killing of 77 people last summer in two attacks.

The first attack, a car bomb in downtown Oslo, killed eight people. In the following hours, a further  69 people were killed in a mass shooting on the nearby island of Utoya during a Labour Party youth camp.

Anders Behring Breivik, 33, has admitted planning and carrying out both attacks, but has denied criminal responsibility. He claimed the attack victims were traitors for embracing multiculturalism in Norway.

A Norwegian court is due to deliver its ruling on the case later this month. If found sane, Breivik could face 21 years in prison or an alternative custodial arrangement under which he would be detained until deemed no longer a threat to society. If found insane, he faces indefinite committal to a psychiatric institution.

An official report to be published this afternoon will focus on how it was possible for so many people to be killed in last year’s attacks.

VG Nett reports that the chairman of the commission inquiring into the response to the 22 July 2011 attacks has indicated that the report will by highly critical of that response. Commission chair Alexandra Bech Gjørv said that the report would detail six main findings along with dozens of further recommendations.

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    Mute Jing Zhang
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    Aug 13th 2012, 12:22 PM

    21 years?!! He will only be 54 when he is a free man again, well capable of repeat what he did. I can’t understand. He is serving less than 4 months for each victim he killed. It’s a crazy world.

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    Mute Keith Colton
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    Aug 13th 2012, 1:49 PM

    “If found sane, Breivik could face 21 years in prison or an alternative custodial arrangement under which he would be detained until deemed no longer a threat to society”

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    Mute John Magne Trane
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    Aug 14th 2012, 4:03 PM

    It won’t be just 21 years. It’ll be extended and extended and extended.

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    Mute Ibhar Mac Suibhne
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    Aug 13th 2012, 12:18 PM

    two wrongs don’t make a right Niall
    and of course the big hole in the death penalty argument is what happens when the wrong guy is convicted?…you can’t bring them back from the dead.

    lock them up and throw away the key …..death is to easy an escape for the likes of Breivik

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    Mute Niall O'Neill
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    Aug 13th 2012, 12:27 PM

    21 years in jail the families of the pay taxes for him to be fed, sheltered and so on that’s much better ya ?

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    Mute Niall O'Neill
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    Aug 13th 2012, 12:14 PM

    Should be the death penalty I’d say

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    Mute John Magne Trane
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    Aug 14th 2012, 3:58 PM

    Problem is the party hurt the most by the killings, are against the death penalty. Against harsher punishment of any criminals in fact.

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    Mute David Vaughan
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    Aug 13th 2012, 1:35 PM

    Put this thing to death, and he’ll possibly end up being called a ‘Martyr for the cause’. :( But 21 years is nowhere near long enough either.

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    Mute Simon Power
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    Aug 13th 2012, 1:42 PM

    Violence begets violence. I very much doubt Brevik will only serve 21 years. Lock him up in solitary and don’t give him any access to the media to vent…

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    Mute Niall O'Neill
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    Aug 13th 2012, 2:59 PM

    Really don’t see why people are against the death penalty so much no valid reason to date ! :/

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    Aug 13th 2012, 2:06 PM

    Let the families of the victims decide his punishment

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    Aug 13th 2012, 2:36 PM

    They have that law in Cambodia! Lady justice is blindfolded for a reason. Allowing the victims family to decide would lead to all sorts of injustices.

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    Aug 13th 2012, 1:39 PM

    What passes for Political slagging , satirical (comedy) entertainment, ”we are better than them” religion and media witch hunts can be creating demons in the minds of some people who eventually flip

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    Aug 14th 2012, 2:52 PM

    Niall, i note the way you ignored the obvious sticking point I mentioned :- What happens when the court convicts and executes the wrong guy?: You can’t bring them back from the dead!
    Argue your way out of that one.

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