Caribbean Drug Routes become more popular – USA

9 November 2011

I am posting this in here because our main website is yet again not conforming to the belief that people need to be able to see and read it!
Anyway, Caribbean drug routes. Something that has been causing the leaders of several Caribbean countries to lose sleep and try to upgrade their National Security measures.
unfortunately these measures take money to accomplish and unless the country has Gas and Oil, it is going to find it hard.Many of the countries have borrowed heavily in the past with St Kitts and Nevis leading the regions per capita rating for Government borrowing.
Many of these countries are beautiful and need our help but the USA is investing 77 million US$ this year across the region for national security, unfortunately I believe one country alone can use that up and they believe it will cover the whole region.

OK, here is the story which I saw on Insightcrime.org

US Predicts Return to Caribbean Drug Trafficking Routes

A State Department official predicts that over the next few years traffickers will increasingly return to using the Caribbean to smuggle drugs into the U.S.

The assistant secretary of state for international narcotics and law enforcement, William Brownfield, was in Miami for a meeting of Latin American and U.S. diplomats to discuss regional security initiatives and multilateral cooperation against organized crime.

Over the last few years increased law enforcement presence and higher interdicting along the U.S.-Mexico border have caused drug traffickers to look for alternative routes. According to Brownfield, a return to the Caribbean routes, which have close proximity to supply, transit and consuming countries, would be the most logical decision for these organizations.

The Caribbean was used to ship the majority of cocaine consumed in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. As authorities cracked down on smuggling along this maritime passageway, however, drug traffickers shifted operations to overland routes via Mexico.

Brownfield also warned that technological innovations — like the increasingly sophisticated submersibles and semi-submersibles used to traffic drugs out of South America — make interdiction more difficult and demonstrate the need for more comprehensive anti-narcotics policies.

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Worldwide Murder Rate

30 October 2011

There is always lots of talk about crime rates and different countries but sometimes you just want to see a picture of what is going on.
Try this one for the World Murder Rates.

Current Worldwide Homicide/Murder Rate

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Don’t laugh, this is serious……

9 October 2011

There have been many times when I have laughed and joked at the scene of a terrible crime. Not out of disrespect or because I had any feelings about the victim(s) or suspect(s) but because I, like you, am human.

There are many people who don’t understand that but when you are faced with the worst of society you need to find a way to deal with it. Most people, especially if you are in the Military or the Police (all emergency services) will use humour as a defence mechanism.

I defy anyone to go into scene after scene after scene and not be affected by them. I also defy anyone to keep all humour locked up while you are working these terrible scenes. Its the type of people we are, that can laugh and joke, while still carrying out a very professional job that enable these cases to be solved. Its our way of dealing with it, and yes the officers should do it away from the press and others (especially the family(s)), but they need to get what they are dealing with out of their systems.

I remember dealing with a body where rigour mortis had set in. The guy I was working with could not carry on for a good ten minutes through laughter when I tried to put the body in a body bag and the rigour snapped. I nearly flew through the roof the noise was like a bone breaking! he laughed so mu it took a long time for us to calm down again.

That in no way meant we were unprofessional. nor did it mean we didn’t respect the victim or appreciate the seriousness of the scene we were dealing with, but it meant we were human.

I would like to see the full reports of all the defence and prosecution and finally the judges reasoning as to the acquittals but the actions of this crime scene team are not all bad.

Meredith Kercher crime scene investigators joked about taking cocaine to stay awake

  • They laughed while searching blood-spattered bedroom
  • Officers forgot to bring vital equipment
  • Damning dossier of 50 police blunders

Forensic officers searching the bedroom of murdered British student Meredith Kercher were heard joking about taking cocaine to stay awake, it emerged today.

The two unidentified Italian CSI investigators are seen in the official video shown to the court during the appeal in Perugia of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito.

One of the men is heard to say: ‘I could really do with some cocaine to give me a kick.’

Investigation: Forensic police - not the officers filmed on the official video - outside the house in Perugia where student Meredith Kercher was found murdered
Investigation: Forensic police – not the officers filmed on the official video – outside the house in Perugia where student Meredith Kercher was found murdered

His colleague replies: ‘Don’t you mean crack?’ Both then laugh loudly while examining the blood-splattered room.

In other parts of the film they seem to be confused over which equipment to use to examine the scene and one then reveals how a product known as Luminol which shows up blood invisible to the naked eye has been left in Rome.

Murder victim: British student Meredith Kercher
Murder victim: British student Meredith Kercher

The revelations will bring fresh heartache for the Kercher family who after last week’s dramatic acquittal of Knox, 24, and 27-year-old Sollecito are left wondering just who killed their daughter.

She was found semi naked and with her throat cut at the house she shared with American student Knox.

During the appeal, the court heard from two forensic professors who were appointed by judge Claudio Pratillo Hellman to look into the way the investigation was handled and they produced a damning report.

Professors Carla Vecchiotti and Stefano Conti said they had counted more than 50 errors police made as they examined the murder scene and their report was vital to the acquittal of Knox and Sollecito.

Key to the original conviction in December 2009 had been a 30cm kitchen knife recovered at Sollecito’s apartment and on which was found DNA from Meredith on the blade and that of Knox on the handle.

However the court was told by the experts the amount from Meredith was so low it should not be used as evidence because it could not even be retested – although the DNA on the handle was confirmed as Knox’s.

Sollecito was convicted because his DNA was found on a clasp from Meredith’s bloodied bra but the experts revealed that it was collected six weeks after the murder making the possibility of contamination highly possible.

Murder scene: The house which Meredith Kercher shared with Amanda Knox. The police forensic team made 50 blunders searching the property
Murder scene: The house which Meredith Kercher shared with Amanda Knox. The police forensic team made 50 blunders searching the property

The experts also pointed out how simple breaches of protocol when gathering evidence had been made including using dirty gloves, not covering hair and not changing shoe covers as well as putting items in plastic bags instead of paper ones.

This coupled with the ‘jovial unprofessional manner’ of the forensic team opened up serious questions over the reliability of the police investigation – although they insist all standards and regulations were followed.

Today no-one was available to comment on the joke made by the officers at the forensic unit HQ in Rome, but Patrizia Stefanoni who led the probe repeatedly told the court the investigation had followed procedures and criticism was unfounded.

Freedom: Amanda Knox acknowledges the cheers of supporters while her mother Edda Mellas comforts her when they returned home to Seattle
Freedom: Amanda Knox acknowledges the cheers of supporters while her mother Edda Mellas comforts her when they returned home to Seattle

Luciano Garofalo, a former commander of Italy’s leading forensic investigation unit with the carabinieri paramilitary police said:”You have to remember that these scenes of crime probes last hours and hours – we are not robots, we are humans.

“The work of the scientific unit has been criminalised over the last few weeks, they were just having a laugh and letting off steam.

‘I would like to put anyone in that situation and see how they cope, see if they don’t make a joke.

“The finds were reliable and at the end of the day its only these two so- called experts who have this theory which has not been double checked.

‘Are they experienced enough ? Are they up to the standards of the forensic police? ‘

Acquitted: Amanda Knox and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito outside the home she shared with Meredith Kercher
Acquitted: Amanda Knox and her then boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito outside the home she shared with Meredith Kercher

Last night neither of Knox’s lawyers Carlo Dalla Vedova and Luciano Ghirga were available, but a member of the defence team said: ‘This is why we asked for an independent report. We were just not happy with the methods used.’

Meanwhile, it has also emerged that Knox intends to sue Italian police for wrongful arrest and imprisonment – but she will have to wait a year until the Supreme Court in Rome makes a final judgment on the case.

They are will rule late next year on whether the appeal should be upheld or overturned and the trial reopened.

Meredith, from Coulsdon, was in Perugia as part of her Leeds University European Studies degree and had only been in Italy for two months before she was murdered.

Knox and Sollecito were convicted sentenced to 26 and 25 years respectively. A third defendant, Ivorian drifter Rudy Hermann Guede, 24, was also convicted and had his 16-year prison sentence upheld by Italy’s highest court.

Following Monday’s acquittals, Guede’s lawyer has said he wants the case reopened, given Italy’s high court ruled that he did not act alone.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047055/Meredith-Kercher-crime-scene-investigators-joked-taking-cocaine-stay-awake.html#ixzz1aITYxz8k

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Knox is free – So who did kill Meredith. Was it Rudy Guede and is that conviction safe?

4 October 2011 2 Comments

There will be a million dollar book and film deal and Amanda Knox will start becoming an international figurehead for the injustices brought about by her incarceration in an Italian jail for four years. But this is really an injustice to the family of, and the victim herself, Meredith Kercher.

What can they do now? They have put their faith in a justice system that was shown for a number of reasons to be wrong. Can they be sure the case against Rudy Guede is secure? Why were two different versions of the case even brought to trial? That alone is very very strange and should have flagged some warnings to the Police conducting the enquiry.

If Rudy was convicted why was Knox not released then? Was there a review of the case at that time? there should have been because two people were convicted in one case with one timeline and then another was convicted using another time line…

Below are ten factors that helped Knox win her appeal case (thanks to the BBC).

10 factors that helped Knox’s case

Amanda Knox cries in Perugia's courtroom
Crying Amanda Knox was rushed from the courtroom after the verdict

Investigative journalist Graham Johnson, co-author of Darkness Descending: The Murder of Meredith Kercher, outlines 10 factors that helped Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito win their appeal.

1. Reasonable doubt

Amanda Knox’s lawyers managed to instil reasonable doubt in the jurors’ minds over the quality of testing of the bra clasp belonging to Meredith Kercher – which it was claimed had Raffaele Sollecito’s DNA on it – and the knife that prosecutors argued was the murder weapon. The prosecution maintained Knox’s DNA was on the handle of the kitchen knife, with Ms Kercher’s DNA on the blade. The defence claimed that the amount of Meredith Kercher’s DNA on the blade was too small to test. An independent review disputed the prosecution’s claims.

2. Crime scene errors

A few police crime scene errors, such as contaminated samples, lost evidence and disputed procedures, were successfully portrayed as generalised incompetence. An independent review raised doubt over the attribution of some of the DNA traces, which were collected from the crime scene 46 days after the murder.

3. Lack of proof

There was no convincing proof that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were actually in the room when Meredith Kercher died. Even the presence of Amanda Knox’s blood and footprints in the house were successfully explained away. Her defence claimed that Knox’s blood could have been there because she was a resident at the farm house on Pergola Road. The evidence of Rudy Guede against Knox was also confusing. Guede, who is serving a prison sentence for sexual assault and murder, said that he heard her voice at the scene but didn’t see her face.

4. Motive

There was no credible motive for the murder. The prosecution stuck doggedly to the sex-game-gone-wrong explanation even though their own medical examiner said there was no evidence of rape in the days following the murder. An alternative motive, involving robbery, gained traction as the case rolled on, based on the unexplained disappearance of Meredith Kercher’s 200 euro rent money.

5. Unreliable witness

One of the key witnesses at the original trial, a homeless man called Antonio Curatolo, publicly admitted to being a heroin addict, undermining his observations that he saw Knox acting suspiciously by the scene of the crime on the night of the murder in November 2007.

6. Character

Knox claimed that some of the evidence put forward against her – stories about her strange behaviour after she was arrested and the prosecution’s focus on her sexuality – was no more than an attempt to demonise her to cover up for a weak case.

7. PR campaign

Knox’s family hired a Seattle public relations specialist, David Marriot, who for months repeatedly plugged the line: “Amanda will get out, it’s a done deal.” This created a self-propagating media frenzy, which – in the end – helped convince a largely sceptical Italian media.

8. Supporters’ presence

The massive presence of friends and family in Perugia in support fuelled the “Amanda is innocent” campaign. Italians have claimed that because Knox is American, the case has been handled differently, so as not to offend the US.

9. Appeals process

The Italian appeals process offers more guarantees to defendants than any other legal system in the world, whereby only the weakest evidence is treated, not the whole case. Knox’s team only had to attack the DNA evidence against her to undermine the whole edifice of the original trial. Italy has one of lowest prison populations in the world because of its lenient appeals process.

10. Favourable political climate

Silvio Berlusconi’s government vowed to tame his country’s fiercely independent system of magistrates – one that had been bolstered to fight the mafia. The more the government shows the magistracy to be incompetent the better for Mr Berlusconi. The ministry of justice is poised to investigate what went wrong.

 

Kercher house
Original Post [BBC]

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With regret, the pilot was killed…

20 August 2011

This following has been taken directly from the BBC website.

If you follow the link at the end of this post you can visit to see the video and hear some eye-witness commentary.

 

An RAF Red Arrows pilot died when his plane crashed following a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival in Dorset.

Flt Lt Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, was killed when his Hawk T1 aircraft – Red 4 – crashed about 1km south east of Bournemouth Airport at 13:50 BST.

Eyewitnesses described seeing the plane plunge to the ground in a field near the River Stour at Throop village.

It was one of nine Red Arrows aircraft that had earlier taken part in a display over the seafront.

Shaun Spencer-Perkins, who witnessed the crash from Throop Mill, said: “I heard a rushing sound and I saw a plane about 15m above the ground racing across the fields.

“It impacted and bounced across the field, made it across the river.

“Members of the public jumped into the water to search for the cockpit.

“We waved down the helicopter, I took off my son’s orange jacket and my wife’s red jumper to get the attention of the helicopter.”

He said the plane had crashed about 100m from where he and his family were walking near the River Stour and debris was spread across a large area.

‘Cracking sound’

Another eyewitness, Nicholas Gore, 22, from Throop, was walking with a friend near the river when saw all nine Red Arrows go over.

“There were quite a few people watching and we saw them go over but one seemed quite low,” he said.

“They then disappeared behind trees and I heard a crack – not an explosion – just a crack and we got further down and I saw the plane with its red tail in the air and its nose in the river.

Red Arrows Hawk T1 Aircraft

  • Two-seater, single-engined advanced training aircraft
  • Length: 38ft 11in (11.8m)
  • Wingspan: 30ft 10in (9.5m)
  • Thrust: 5,200lbs
  • Max altitude: 48,000 ft (14,630 m)
  • Max speed: 638 mph (1,025 km/h) in level flight and 915 mph (1,472 km/h) in a dive
  • The Red Arrows are based at RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire
  • Manufacturer: Hawker Siddeley/B A E Systems (United Kingdom)
  • Used by the Red Arrows since 1979.

“Shortly afterwards there were emergency services everywhere.”

Mark Grogan was playing a round of golf at the nearby Parley Golf Centre, where he works, at the time of the crash.

He said: “I heard a sound like a car backfiring. Within five minutes the helicopters arrived, there were at least five helicopters including the police and two from the coastguard.

“One of the local farmers said they’d seen rescue teams pulling the pilot out of the river.”

BBC South Today producer Martin Webster, who was at the scene, said he saw only eight of the nine Red Arrows RAF display team’s aircraft land on the runway following the display at the annual event.

Darren Blakeman, who was watching the display, described what he saw: “We watched nine Red Arrows take off, then they did an approach from the south of the runway, they did a little display.

“After that display only eight of the airplanes landed and then there was a big siren went off at the airport, like an emergency sound, and there was a big yellow fire truck parked in the viewing area and then that rushed off with its blue lights going.”

Bournemouth Airport said flights were operating as normal.

A statement on its website confirmed that the airport was closed “for a short time but is now back to normal operations”.

The wreckage of the Red Arrow
The plane plunged into a field near the River Stour

“Passengers due to fly out of the airport this… evening are asked to check in as normal.”

Organisers of the Bournemouth Air Festival said events were continuing as scheduled.

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said they were investigating the incident.

The crash site remains cordoned off by police and only people living inside the zone are being allowed access.

The Military Air Accident Investigation Branch were also admitted through the cordon to start work on identifying the cause of the crash.

All nine Red Arrows display pilots are fast jet pilots from frontline Royal Air Force squadrons.

Each aircraft can carry enough diesel and dye to create five minutes of white smoke, one minute of red and one minute of blue.

Both cockpit seats are fitted with Martin-Baker Mark 10B rocket boosted ejection seats.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-14602900

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Red Arrows suffer crash during show in UK

20 August 2011

It is with sadness that I report that the aerial display team of the RAF Red Arrows from the UK MOD has suffered a crash during an air show near Bournemouth in England.

Here is a picture taken by a good friend who was attending the air show and managed to get this picture as the crews set off to board their jets.

Full details are still sketchy and reports are mixed on if the pilot survived the ordeal but as more news comes in with images I will update this post.

We hope and pray all survive this disaster.

All images with kind permission of Mac McNamee from www.imagesphotography.tv and were taken at that air show

email: enquiries@imagesphotography.tv

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South Africa: ‘Dead man’ wakes up inside morgue

25 July 2011

This is a report from the BBC that provides a lesson for us all.

Only a certified doctor should pronounce life is over and the person is dead…

A 50-year-old South African man woke up inside a mortuary over the weekend and screamed to be let out – scaring away attendants who thought he was a ghost.

His family presumed he was dead when they could not wake him on Saturday night and contacted a private morgue in a rural village in the Eastern Cape.

He spent almost 24 hours inside the morgue, the region’s health department spokesman told the Sapa news agency.

The two attendants later returned and called for an ambulance.

The man – whose identity has been withheld – was treated in hospital for dehydration.

“At first the men ran for their lives”

“Doctors put him under observation and concluded he was stable,” Eastern Cape health spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said.

“He did not need further treatment.”

Mr Kupelo said the man woke up at 1700 local time (1500 GMT) on Sunday, demanding to be let out of the chilly morgue in Libode village, frightening the attendants on duty.

“At first the men ran for their lives,” said Mr Kupelo.

Officials have urged the public to contact doctors or the emergency services so they can they can pronounce someone dead before calling an undertaker.

“You begin to you ask yourself how many other people have died like that in a morgue,” said Mr Kupelo.

“We need to [get] the message across to all South Africans that it is very wrong for them to conclude on their own that a person has died,” he said.

 

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Not Guilty? – A plea from a madman

25 July 2011

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Well the suspect (Anders Behring Breivik) has appeared in court and pleads “not guilty” to the murders he committed at the end of last week in Norway.

How strange when all the indications we had at the weekend were that he confessed and held his hands up to carrying out these pathetic murderous attacks.

Obviously the evidence is stacked against him.

Eye witnesses will be lined up to give their evidence in court and forensic evidence will also be linked from the bullets, through to the weapons, and any footwear marks, blood splatter and other trace evidence on him, his victims and the vehicles. There will also be lots of evidence at his home and online as we know how important that medium is these days.

The bomb will be a mass of evidence the authorities will have to look through and this will take time, although a rush will be placed on it, a complete examination will still take a number of weeks to complete. All this and he pleads “Not Guilty”… Why?

I think he believes he has a cause. He believes he did these insane acts out of some righteousness…

I don’t, I think he is quite mad and should not be allowed a public trial.

His acts have not given the people of Norway anything to stand up and shout about has it?

Why should he have that chance? Standing in the court dock telling the world what he believes in… and the world will be watching.

We all need to bow our heads and say a prayer but we also need to stand tall and say to those who will now want to use this against us, that “We do NOT accept he did this for us“, and “We do NOT accept his moral codes or beliefs“.

He should be incarcerated or even killed by the hangman for what he has done. In fact, ANYONE doing the same type of thing should be punished, no matter what section of society they are from.

This is NOT about them and us…it’s about right and wrong.

What side are you on?

 

NOTE* – He now said he has accomplices and there are other cells committed to his cause. Please be careful wherever you are.

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I’m Alive…

23 July 2011

I have just been advised by a friend (Lars Dahlin)  to look over this blog post.

It’s originally in Norwegian and this translation is rough so does not do it justice, please excuse that.

From the post it shows the rush of fear and emotions this young person had to deal with while hiding from the mad man with the guns, but also the relief of living through this hell on earth.

It also shows how important social media has become in todays world…

The original post comes from here http://prableen.origo.no/-/bulletin/show/672218_helvete-paa-utoeya?ref=mst

This is the translation……

Norwegian to English translation

Hell on Utøya I woke up. I can not sleep more. I’m sitting in the living room. Feeling grief, anger, happiness, God, I do not know what. There are too many emotions. There are too many thoughts. I’m afraid. I react to the slightest sound. I will write about what happened on Utøya. What my eyes saw, what I felt, what I did. The words come straight from the liver, but I would also anonymize many names out of respect for my friends.We had a crisis meeting in the main building after the explosions in Oslo.
After that there was a meeting for members of Akershus and Oslo. After the meetings were many, many people around and in the main building. We consoled ourselves that we were safe on an island.
No one knew that hell would break out with us too.I stood in the main time when panic broke out. I heard shots. I saw him shoot. All started to run. The first thought was: “Why shoot the police on us? What the hell? “I ran into the little room. People ran. Screamed. I was scared. I managed to get into one of the rooms at the back of the building. We were many in there. We lay on the floor all together. We heard several shots. Were more afraid. I cried. I knew nothing. I saw my best friend through the window and wondered if I should go out and bring him to me. I did not. I saw fear in his eyes. We were lying on the floor inside the room for a few minutes. We agreed not to release more in case the killer came. We heard several shots and decided to jump out the window. Panic broke out among us.
All in the room rushed to the window and tried to jump out. I was the last and thought: “I am the last to jump out the window. Now I’m dying. I’m sure, but it might be okay, then I know that the others are safe. “I kasket my bag out the window. Tried to managed down, but lost her grip. I landed hard on the left part of the body. A boy helped me up. We ran into the woods. I looked around. ”Is he here? Shoot him for me? Viewing him myself? “A girl had a broken ankle. Another was severely injured. I tried to help a little bit before I went down to the water.
I sought cover behind a sort of brick wall. We were many. I prayed, prayed, prayed. I hope that God saw me. I called Mom and said that it was not safe we ​​would meet again, but that I would do anything to clear me. I said several times that I loved her. I heard fear in her voice. She cried. It hurt. I sent a text message to my dad, told him I loved him. I sent a text message to another person I am very, very happy in. We were a little contact. I sent a text message to my best friend. He did not answer. We heard several shots. Snuggled together. Did everything we could to keep warm. There were so many thoughts. I was so scared.
My dad called me. I cried, said I loved him. He said he was going with my brother to take me welcome when I come across to the mainland, or they came to the island. There were so many emotions. So many thoughts. I told everything I could. It took some time. The other called parents eventually started all texting for fear that the killer would hear us. I thought of my sister who’s away.How I would tell her how it went? What happened to me. I updated on Twitter and Facebook that I was still alive and that I was “safe.” I wrote that I was waiting for the police. People jumped into the water, started swimming. I was lying. I decided that if he did, I would play dead. I would not run or swim. I can not describe the fear, all your mind, what I felt. A one came. ”I’m from the police.” I was lying. Some shouted back that he had to prove it. I do not remember exactly what he said, but the killer started shooting. He charged. Extension more. He shot those around me. I was lying. I think: “Now it’s over.He’s here. He takes me.
Now I’m dying. “People screamed. I heard that others were shot. Others jumped into the water. I was there. The mobile phone in hand. I lay on top of the legs of a girl. Thurs the 2nd was on top of my leg. I was lying. The insert in text messages. The mobile phone rang several times. I was lying. I played dead. I lay there for at least an hour. It was completely quiet. I gently turned her head to see if I could see someone live. I looked like. I saw blood. Fear. I decided to get up. I had been lying on top of a dead body. Thurs like lying to me. I had a guardian angel. I did not know if he would come back again. I had not the courage to look at all those who had called and texted me. I hurried down to the water. I took off my sweater. It was great. I thought it would be difficult to swim to me. I considered whether I should bring my cell phone or leave it again. I put it in his back pocket and jumped into the water. I saw several others in the water. They had swum far. I saw that someone had gathered around a floating luftbåt or something like that. There were many who picked up those who swam out. I swam, swam, and swam towards the air thing. I screamed. Weep. Was cool. I thought of when I would drown. It was heavier and heavier. I asked. I continued. Was tired arms. Decided to turn my back and just use your legs to swim on. I sank. I started to swim normally again.
A little while I thought they had gathered around the air boat began to move away. I screamed. Begged them to wait for me. I must have seen visions. I swam at least a few hundred meters before I arrived. We talked a little together. Did what we called, where we came from. When the boats passed us shouting for help, but they picked up the others just swam first. A man in a boat came to us. He threw out several life jackets. I got hold of one. Got it on me. I held on to the small air boat a long time until the same man came back to pick us up. All got into it. He began to run towards the shore. After a while it started small his boat to take in some water. I did everything I could to get the most water out. I used a bucket. I was exhausted. Another girl in the boat took over. We came to the country. We got blankets. Tears pressed on. I cried more. A woman hugged me. It was so good. I wept aloud. I sobbed. A man lent me his phone.
I called my dad, “I live. I did it. Now I am safe. “I hung up. Cry more. We had to walk a bit. Completely unknown people took us into their cars and drove us to Sundvollen hotel. I ran in to see if I could see my best friend. I saw him at any place. I saw a friend. I cried loudly. We hugged each other for long. It was good. I walked around, looking for friends. My heart pounded. I cried more. I signed up with the police, then through all the lists. I did not know about my best friend lived. I looked through all the lists. I could not find his name anywhere. I was scared. I got a duvet. I took off my wet socks. I was half naked. Got a jacket. I tried to dial a bit. Contacted my parents again. My dad and brother were on their way to fetch me. I drank some cocoa. I sat down. Thought. Weep. So many friends. Hugged them. Weep. I borrowed a computer. Updated the Facebook and Twitter again that I was safe. I was at the hotel for several hours before my family came. I looked for familiar. I talked to a priest. I told all I had seen. It was a good call. A man from the Red Cross saw all my wounds. Cleanse them. Time passed. I was with some of my friends. All talked about the same. How we survived.
What had happened. I asked several if they had seen my best friend. No one had seen him. I was scared. I thought that it was my fault because we had not managed to stay together. A friend got the key to a hotel room. We sat there, looked at the news. There was anger, sorrow, so many emotions. My dad called, they had come. I took the elevator down. Run out to them. Hugged my brother and my dad a long time. I wept aloud. My brother was crying too. It was a good moment. I saw a boy who looked like my best friend. I shouted his name. He turned around. It was him. We hugged each other for long. Both crying, we asked each other how we had managed. After a while, I registered myself and we drove home. Someone else sat in with us. My best friend was with me. His brother had come to me with his best friend.
There were several who had gathered at my home. They would not go home until they had seen that I was fine. We talked a little bit. I drank a juice Gladden. Ate a yogurt. Talked some more with my mom and my family. I called my best friend. It was a good call. She said: “I was not sure if I would ever get this phone.” Tears pressed on. We talked a little bit. After that I lay. It was three. Mom refused to let me sleep alone, so we slept together. There have been several hours since all this happened. I’m still in shock. Everything has not fallen into. I have seen the corpses of my friends. Several of my friends are missing. I am glad that I can swim. I am glad that I live. For that God watched over me.There are so many emotions, so many thoughts. I think of all the relatives.
In all I lost. In the hell that is and was on the island. This summer’s most beautiful fairy tale is transformed into Norway’s worst nightmare.

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These cowardly attacks in Oslo and Utøya (RIP) have again shown the world that we are not safe.

22 July 2011

taken by Alexander Nørstad

Oslo Bombings 2011

It is time to increase the level of security we all have by realising that we have helped these idiots with their task by allowing our sense of decency to give them human rights!

i am NOT asking the whole world to pick up arms and come out fighting but if we all stop worrying about our privacy so much and allow a little bit more security into our lives, at the airports and seaports especially, we might be able to help stop these terrible events taking place.

I am also not asking that their basic human rights are taken away but we all must accept that to keep us safe our elected officials and those trusted agencies must be allowed to do their jobs without fear of recrimination because some old man has had his picture taken with a camera that can look through clothes, or someone accused of planning an atrocity such as happened today is detained for three days too long. He/She did NOT think about that attacking a YOUTH CAMP… or blowing up a street with people going about their daily business.

This sort of attitude is M.A.D.

These attacks have also indicated that ANYONE is a target. ANYWHERE. So those in the “Safe” countries please look at your security*.
Do not think that you have no troops in Afghanistan or Libya so you are not a target, we all are and we must help each other to stop these groups destroying our lives.

There are products that can help with the privacy issues we have, but mostly there are people and products that can help increase our safety without making us prisoners in our own homes.

RIP those lost on this black day and speedy recovery to the injured. Our thoughts are with you all.

They shall not grow old as we grow old….

 

*For official representatives of countries that need a national security upgrade please contact me.

We can help and are already doing so around the world in new ways that are inspiring, confidential and unique.

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