Nordic Geospatial Blog –

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s memorial note -

Gov’t of Norway’s July 22nd Commission formed and report due Aug 10th 2012
http://www.norway-un.org/NorwayandUN/Selected_Topics/Peace_Efforts/22-July-Commission-lessons-are-important-to-improve-future-preparedness/

Interim resources…

International Center for Counter-Terrorism – The Hague
http://icct.nl/vervolg.php?h_id=6#EB2

EUROPOL’s Terrorism Situation and Trend Reports (TE-SAT) 2011
https://www.europol.europa.eu/sites/default/files/publications/te-sat2011.pdf

TE-SAT 2011
EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report
2011 – 45 pp. 21 x 29,7 cm
ISBN Number:978-92-95018-86-0
ISSN Number: 1830-9712
DOI: 10.2813/14705

UPDATE 20110822
Point and counterpoint in the US context – @MotherJones compiles a DoJ database of counterterrorism cases over the last ten years -

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/terror-trials-numbers

UPDATE 20110803
Hero couple rescued dozens from #Utoya
http://news.yahoo.com/lesbian-couple-saved-40-kids-norway-050733662.html

UPDATE 20110727
‘Sluggish’ Norwegian police criticized and protected by insular culture
http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-culture-shields-sluggish-norway-police-critics-151445646.html

UPDATE 20110726

Fascinating article in NYTimes about unarmed Norwegian Police

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/world/europe/26police.html

And a quote that seems idyllic and possibly naive to Norwegian Americans -

“I would prefer to live in a society where police normally work unarmed,” said Johannes Knutsson, a professor of police research at the Norwegian Police University College.

Though graphic, the above aerial image from news helicopters reinforces the fact that the police, SWAT and counter-terrorism first responders were woefully unprepared and slow in their response. Their use of an overloaded boat in a country that daily flies thousands of oil workers via jet helicopters to offshore oil rigs will surely be a lesson learned in the forthcoming after action reports and inquiries – per the NYTimes article above -

” It took police SWAT units more than an hour to reach the camp, on Utoya Island, after reports of the shooting came in. Officers had to drive to the shore across from the site of the shooting attack, and use boats to get to the island. A police helicopter was unable to get off the ground; news crews that reached the island by air could only watch as the gunman continued the massacre. ”

Tragic loss of the one onsite first responder/police officer ( Trond Berntsen ), who was unarmed and was the step-brother of Norwegian Crown Princess Mette-Marit .

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018459/Norway-shooting-Crown-Princesss-step-brother-Trond-Berntsen-killed-Anders-Behring-Breivik.html

Here she is with the Prince at the UNDP Arendal center for environmental analysis -

UPDATE 20110727
https://plus.google.com/110668479729372555286/posts

Tragic

Excellent resource for live updates via UK Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8655175/Oslo-explosion-live-coverage.html

Context/History
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8655451/History-of-Islamic-militant-attacks-in-Europe.html

Likely usual suspects
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/us-europe-groups-idUSTRE76L3O920110722

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_explosion

Excellent source of polar and environmental data and maps
http://maps.grida.no/

and a recent visit to the UNEP GRID Arendal locale by Norwegian royalty.. Uff Da : )

Start em young (helps if you’re halvparten norsk and have an index finger that doubles as a North arrow : )

Neighborly advice for Iceland from Finland & the FT -

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cb739458-fe13-11de-9340-00144feab49a.html

An important film about the Norwegian Resistance in WWII – Max Manus (2008) -

http://www.nfi.no/english/norwegianfilms/show.html?id=879