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Only in Norway?

Cartoon by Manel Fontdevila

The notorious “deed” by Anders Behring Breivik, who took 76 lives in Norway, shocked the Western world. How is it possible that “a full blooded Norwegian” – as described by the police – white and Catholic, can commit two terrorist acts, so carefully premeditated? Is the Oslo government so busy with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that it neglects its own home front? These and other questions travel around the world and the answers are not easy.