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A combination photo shows 20 of the 76 victims killed in the July 22 bomb attack in central Oslo and shooting rampage in Utoya island. First row from left are: Silje Merete Fjellbu (17) from Tinn, Birgitte Smetbak (15) from Noetteroey, Margrethe Boeyum Kloeven (16) from Baerum, Bano Abobakar Rashid (18) from Nesodden, Hanne Fjalestad (43) from Lunner, Diderik Aamodt Olsen (19) from Nesodden and Kjersti Berg Sand (26) from Nord-Oda. Second row from left are: Sharidyn Meegan Ngahiwi Svebakk-Boehn, Guro Vartdal Haavoll (18) from Oersta, Syvert Knudsen (17) from Lyngdal, Simon Saeboe (18) from Salangen, Haakon Oedegaard (17) from Trondheim, Johannes Buoe (14) from Mandal and Eivind Hovden (15) from Tokke. Third row from left are: Sondre Furseth Dale (17) from Haugesund, Sverre Flaate Bjoerkavaag (28) from Sula, Gizem Dogan (17) from Trondheim, Modupe Ellen Awoyemi (15) from Drammen, Silje Stamneshagen (18) from Askoey, Tove Aashill Knutsen (56) from Oslo.

Portraits put a face on Norway massacre

These composites, like the ones of the September 11 victims, carry a great deal of emotional power.

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We as a HUMAN RACE should shudder at the malignancy that eats at our very marrow! The evil cauldrons of hate are boiling over across our terrified Mother Earth, with no goal other than destruction and anarchy. We must, ALL OF US, do what we can to stop this madness that is now beginning to appear in our midst, disguised as "-------purity", (you supply the descriptor, Damn it!) When children die, and those who try to give them voice also die, we, as a HUMAN RACE, begin to die - by bits & pieces!

God Bless these children and their adult guides, take them unto your Holy Heart and save a special place in DAMNATION for the piece of perverted, foul, delusional ANTI-CHRIST scum that took them from us.

Norway, as a dedicated protector of children, my heart goes out to you - as well as the children I am blessed to work with in the U.S.

    Reply#84 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:49 AM EDT

    To all the people of the great country of Norway my condolences on your loss and may your healing come quickly and swiftly . LOL Stuart

      Reply#85 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:22 AM EDT

      Mr. Bleivik's killing spree is horrific, but it demonstrates what can happen when governments do nothing about serious national issues.

      Bleivik concerned himself with unchecked Muslim immigration into Europe and specifically his own country. In America the problem is not so much Isamification as it is Mexification.

      Either way, reverse colonialism stinks. If the Federal Government chooses to abdicate its responsibility to provide secure borders, there are more than enough patriotic Americans willing to opt for the "Second Amendment Solution."

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      Reply#86 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:52 AM EDT

       What a waste of lives....Why do Terrorist think that they must kill so many to get a point across. Why can't they just create a scene and shoot or blow themselves up!!!! I truly feel for thses families and their country of Norway, I too have some friends in Norway I was devastated by this massacare.

        Reply#87 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:17 AM EDT

        My heart breaks looking at this collage and this is just 20 of them, Like others in this blog my mind just cant comprehend how anyone could look at the faces of these innocent unprotected sheep on an island with no help and just start shooting them?

          Reply#88 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:48 AM EDT

          Seeing this actually hurts my heart.  Normally I am indifferent to the worlds problems, but this struck a chord.

            Reply#89 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:22 AM EDT

            Seeing this actually hurts my heart.  Normally I am indifferent to the worlds problems, but this struck a chord.

              Reply#90 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:23 AM EDT

              Ok Lqem13 & Doug0560, you're both right, anyone who makes a typo or spelling error should be shot. Just kidding you're both probably just douches, of this i'm quite sure. Now please quietly go @!$%# yourselves. =)

                Reply#91 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:26 AM EDT

                Truth Hurts- It is your filthy mouth, and lack of substance to your comments, (not necessarily your spelling) that illustrates how ignorant you really are. I am convincely telling you the sad truth, and I know that must hurt. Inform yourself first, before you vomit all that garbage on these blogs.

                  #91.1 - Wed Aug 10, 2011 5:39 PM EDT
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                  The killer weighed the lives of all these people and decided that, on balance, they were less important than his own ideological convictions and getting his own way. If that isn't selfishness, what is? What breathtaking arrogance! Really, words fail. Whatever else sane judgment consists of it must include some sense of proportion, the ability to judiciously assign realistic values to different aspects of our experience. It is this ability that terrorists and ideologues of all stripes most conspicuously lack. They really have no clue, when they casually subordinate the lives of others to their crackpot notions, what they are doing. All of us have convictions--beliefs that are important to us. But when it comes to actually pulling a trigger or detonating a bomb, most of us also have an appropriate sense of proportion and personal humility. After all, what if we're wrong? Do we really have the right to make others pay with their lives for the sake of our ideas? Those who think they have this right are a minority but are numerous enough to cause untold harm in the world. In their ranks we must include Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Osama bin Laden and many more obscure individuals united principally by their disproportionate sense of righteous mission and their willingness to sacrifice others to it.

                    Reply#92 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:39 AM EDT

                    This is heartbreaking. These parents were tying to help their children become what the wanted in life and instead it ending it. I have not read the post listed, but I question how he was allowed to shot for 1 hour and a half. Where were the adults? Did they not attempt to stop him in anyway??

                      Reply#93 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:53 AM EDT

                      It is easy to dismiss a number...not so easy when you see the faces those numbers represent. This is just so very sad.

                        Reply#94 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:45 PM EDT

                        One post asked how can one person destroy so many lives? Answer: with an assault weapon, guns, explosives, etc. One unarmed person, no matter how insane, cannot destroy so many. I am so very sorry for the people of Norway, particularly the families and friends of these beautiful victims. So very tragic; my heart goes out to you all.

                          Reply#95 - Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:18 PM EDT

                          When i look at the faces of these people it's so sad,to there families hold on keep there memories alive .And the people of Norway take courage your country will get healing.In Jamaica where i live we talk about it at work and we feel so sad so many young people lives were taken from them these were the future leaders,movers and shakers of Norway.

                            Reply#96 - Mon Aug 1, 2011 7:04 PM EDT
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