Norway arrests three brothers over US embassy bombing in Oslo | EUROtoday

Norwegian police mentioned Wednesday that three brothers had been arrested on suspicion of a “terrorist bombing” over a weekend explosion on the US embassy in Oslo, that precipitated minor harm however no accidents.

Police prosecutor Christian Hatlo informed a press convention the brothers, who have been Norwegian residents of Iraqi origin, had been arrested in Oslo round 3:30pm (1430 GMT), and that police have been investigating the motive.

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“We are still working from several hypotheses. One of them is whether this is an order from a government entity,” Hatlo mentioned.

“This is quite natural given the target – the US embassy – and the security situation the world is in today,” he mentioned.

Hatlo mentioned the investigation would search to make clear precisely what roles the brothers, who have been of their 20s and never beforehand identified to police, had performed.

“We believe that one of them is the person who placed the bomb outside the embassy and that the other two were complicit in the act,” Hatlo informed reporters.

Hatlo additionally mentioned that they have been additionally not ruling out hyperlinks to “criminal networks”.

‘Proxy actors’

In its annual risk evaluation, the Norwegian safety service PST mentioned final month that Iran, which it considers one of many most important threats to the nation, might depend on “proxy actors,” together with “criminal networks”, to commit acts.

On Tuesday, Iran’s ambassador in Oslo denied any involvement by his nation within the embassy explosion.

“It is unacceptable that we are being singled out,” Alireza Jahangiri informed Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang.

According to police, the perpetrators of the bombing, described as “powerful” can also have acted out of their very own motives.

US embassies have been positioned on excessive alert within the Middle East resulting from American strikes on Iran. Several have confronted assaults as Tehran responds by concentrating on industrial and diplomatic amenities.

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The blast befell at round 1am (0000 GMT) on Sunday on the entrance to the embassy’s consular part.

On Monday revealed two pictures from surveillance digital camera footage of a suspect wearing darkish clothes with a hood over his head and sporting a backpack.

Roughly on the time the incident occurred, a video had been uploaded to the Google Maps web page for the US embassy.

The video, which has since been taken down appeared to point out Iran’s late supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed on the primary day of the US-Israeli strikes in Iran.

According to Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, the one who uploaded the video wrote in Persian: “God is great. We are victorious.”

Police have additionally opened an investigation into this.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)