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Spook bigwig: War on terror just begun

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:16:09 +0000

The head of PST – the Police Security Services in Norway is interviewed in this weekend edition (January 23/24th) of Dagens Næringsliv, a prominent and well respected business daily. She brings disturbing news. Unauthorized translation below:

Age of extremists. “Extreme Islamicism” appears in the first sentence in PST’s last threat-evaluation. And the security service believes that [...]

DN Nov. 5th: False Quote on Anti-Semitism

admin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:36:37 +0000

In the last week of October journalist Kjetil Wiedswang in the prestigious business daily Dagens Næringsliv commented on the strained aspects of Norway-Israeli relations . In doing so he unfortunately relied upon “chinese whispers” about Israeli academic Manfred Gerstenfeld, including a misquote which has been bandied about by both the Norwegian and Swedish News Agencies [...]

Kjetil Wiedswang on Norway – Israel relations

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:44:41 +0000

(Originally published on October 27th – republished on request on November 5th)

Mr.Kjetil Wiedswang is no fool. A prominent and respected Norwegian journalist in the employ of Dagens Næringsliv, a well-reputed business daily, he can often seize the attention of the country’s elites (read more by Mr.Wiedswang here and here). On October 24th this weekend he [...]

Dagens Næringsliv contaminated by chinese whisper

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:07:24 +0000

Despite this unfortunate affair, DN remains one of Norway’s finest newspapers and Mr.Wiedswang one of our sharpest journalists. The only mistake Mr.Wiedswang made was to believe the information provided to him by his colleagues. In the climate offered by the Norwegian debate on the Middle East, this is not advisable.

Below; letter from Manfred Gerstenfeld of [...]

Op-ed:Operation Cast lead “almost” like al-Assad massacre at Hama

admin — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:18:09 +0000

Saturday July 4th, 2009. Journalist Kjetil Wiedswang writes the commentary “Obama’s first war” in Dagens Næringsliv, Norway’s largest business newspaper. Wiedswang claims that there are two basic strategies for defeating a wellequipped and motivated guerilla army; the al-Assad way and the Briggs way.

The first and most widely used strategy consits of using raw and unrestricted violence. It was demonstrated [...]

Lady of peace

admin — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:31:13 +0000

Norway’s leading business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv runs a two-page interview with the new leader for the Committee for Palestine, Mrs.Line Khateeb. The interview is titled “Lady of peace” and is a cordial affair where Mrs. Khateeb expresses concern over the high level of traffic accidents in Israel, which she attributes to the high level of [...]