These idiots were Muslim:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1098821.ece
The good thing is he's dead. The scary thing is now teenage Muslims can make bombs to kill, right at home.
"The explosion killed a 17-year-old boy of Syrian origin."
Yup. TROP.
Seemingly an unimportant fact to some. We wouldn't want to give the impression Muslims are terrorists.
Any local color on this? Or just your equivalent of our 14 yr old flying a prop plane into a Tampa hirise?
That link provides much more information than the BBC release: references to Syrian, Pakistani, and 3 (17, 19, 20) associated.
Yeah, but it appears that they were rather ambitious criminals, as opposed to budding terrorists. They'd previously used explosives to knock over slot machines, and were planning to blow up ticket machines next. The dead kid had double-digit crime statistics.
17 car thefts, threats, robbery and the list goes on and on.
The deceased teenager had been convicted of over 20 offenses, most committed when under compulsory placement in child welfare institutions in Oslo and Arendal. In his last conviction in June 2004 he was sentenced for 17 car thefts, threats, robbing a store, drug abuse and violence against a civil servant.
The status of the 19-year-old is still serious. He suffered face and head injuries and numerous fractures in the blast
Diversity training perhaps..
Why didn't you use the more informative source that pointed out they were Muslim?
That information is not included in this article because Muslims are no more likely to be terrorists than anyone else.
</sarcasm>
Strange how the title article fails to mention that.
The explosives that blasted an Oslo apartment on Wednesday killing a teen occupant were intended to be used to blow up Oslo Transit ticket machines. The damage from the blast that rocked an Oslo apartment building on Wednesday night is clearly visible here.
Police suspect homemade bomb - 18.08.2005
Police said at a Thursday press conference that the three men present when their homemade bomb detonated were preparing a crime scheme from a recipe downloaded from the Internet.
The explosion killed a 17-year-old boy of Syrian origin. He and his 19-year-old brother were awaiting trial on a number of charges of crime for profit, including emptying slot machines.
A 20-year-old friend of the brothers has been charged with illegal handling of explosives and was being questioned on Thursday afternoon. This person is of Pakistani origin, police said.
"I will not say if these three have blown up other ticket machines but explosives have been used to this end in this part of the city a few days ago," said police inspector Terje Kristiansen of Oslo police.
The deceased teenager had been convicted of over 20 offenses, most committed when under compulsory placement in child welfare institutions in Oslo and Arendal. In his last conviction in June 2004 he was sentenced for 17 car thefts, threats, robbing a store, drug abuse and violence against a civil servant.
The status of the 19-year-old is still serious. He suffered face and head injuries and numerous fractures in the blast
Thanks, what a record. This kid was cruising for something serious, no matter what happened here.