Oslo bombed

[Heresson]

This information has been demented. That is, the chemicals were bought from a polish guy, but legally.

Btw, as being a PHD arabic student: "Ahmed" is better than "Ackmed" or "Achmed". I'd prefer Ahmad actually (in arabic; in turkish it's Ahmet), but the second a, as well as the first, is a short one, which means that in most dialects, it will be pronounced as polish "e". In a very highbrow transliteration (used in science) it'd be Ahmad with a point under h, with possible -u ending ("Ahmadu" in nominativus, Ahmada in genetivus and accusativus; it's a grammatical ending which is not pronounced these days.)
The closest to this is:
Ahmad.

[Kitschum]

It's Ahmad in Persian, with an h not a ch/kh obviously. The problem for Angloids, Swedes and others is that an "h" before a consonant isn't pronounced in our native languages so we invent ugly creations like Ackmed. In truth, Amed would be about as wrong.

Speaking of nothing in particular - not the topic of the thread or anything - this has been an emotionally exhausting weekend. The murders have been on the news 24/7 since it happened, still tops all news sites and everyone's talking about it constantly. I'm about ready to take a vacation just to get away from this ****ing wackjob.

[Heraclitus]

BTW The document he put up is seriously disturbing, I was expecting a author tract, but through it about 400 pages seems to be basically a manual on how to acquire/manufacture armour, weapons, explosives and speculation on all sorts of nasty stuff (frak it even has speculation about WMDs in there!). Its probably flawed and poorly researched, serving as war porn for when he was preparing the attack, but still. I'm not reading any more of that stuff!!!


If he wasn't acting alone this wasn't a crazed gunman by any reasonable definition but a cold blooded rational terrorist. Should this spread with copycat attacks... God I hope gets ignored by those contemplating violence.

[Az]

Been following this thread and the news as they broke... my condolences to the families of the victims.

[The Mad Monk]

BTW The document he put up is seriously disturbing, I was expecting a author tract, but through it about 400 pages seems to be basically a manual on how to acquire/manufacture armour, weapons, explosives and speculation on all sorts of nasty stuff (frak it even has speculation about WMDs in there!). Its probably flawed and poorly researched, serving as war porn for when he was preparing the attack, but still. I'm not reading any more of that stuff!!!


If he wasn't acting alone this wasn't a crazed gunman by any reasonable definition but a cold blooded rational terrorist. Should this spread with copycat attacks... God I hope gets ignored by those contemplating violence.

Passing thought: Al-Queda must be feeling pretty stupid right now.

[Az]

I really don't know how dumb terrorists must be if they get their schemes thwarted..

[rah]

Passing thought: Al-Queda must be feeling pretty stupid right now.

Yes, they should probably just outsource their terrorist acts to the US.

[Heraclitus]

I took a year off when I was 25 and played WoW PvE hardcore for a year.

Conservatism - Alliance, human female mage – PvE, Server: Silvermoon
Conservative - Horde, tauren female resto druid – PvP, Server: Silvermoon

I raided hardcore and was a guild leader in a couple of hardcore guilds: Virtue, then Unit, Nordrassil – Rank 1 Alliance PvE. We transferred the guild to Silvermoon. I grew tired of running the guild and sorting recruitment issues so I joined Nevermore, another hardcore guild on Silvermoon (Rank 3). Silvermoon is the most progressed Alliance server in the world out of more than 300 servers (10 million + players worldwide) so the competition is extremely hard. This means we were one of the most progressed guilds in the world at one time. I can honestly say running a hardcore WoW guild is equally challenging to running your own business with 7 employees or more. It requires an extreme amount of work in order to be successful and get server first kills. It was a good experience and something I wanted to do at least a limited amount of time during a period of my life.

[Riesstiu IV]

Makes me thankful I never tried an MMORPG.

[Al B. Sure!]

Why did he play as females?

[The Mad Monk]

FEEEEEEEEEEMALES!!!

[Al B. Sure!]

It says human female and tauren female. Why did he play as females?

[BeBMan]

Dunno. Maybe he was already paranoid about his identity and thought "If I play as females, others will never find out I'm male really!"

[The Mad Monk]

I usually play FEEEEMALES for the added eye-candy.

[BeBMan]

This morning I shortly watched BBC Intl. They had an US professor of sociology/psychology to be interviewed about the killer's personality. Her first comments were: this guy's manifesto reminded her on Hitler's Mein Kampf (lost!), he was probably loner all the time (who'd have thunk?), then she went over to the crusader thing and clamied the knights templar did massacres "on their way to Jerusalem", which is nonsense, since the order was founded only ca. 20yrs after the first crusade. After two or three questions the BBC woman had enough of the nonsense, said something like "fascinating insights, but we're running out of time and have to leave it there, thankyou." Probably any ordinary polytubby who read this thread could have given answers with a bit more substance.