Recently, I had criticized a negative aspect our culture: Authorities in Turkey never resign even when something awful happens in their responsibility. I had praised the Greek Cypriot authorities then, because they instantly resigned after a disaster.
It seems that the Norwegians authorities are more like the Turkish ones, not the Greek Cypriot.
I think that the performance of the Norwegian authorities before, during and after the latest terror attacks were just terrible. Der Spiegel has summarized it today:
* The Norwegian police and intelligence agencies couldn't spot the Christian-supremacist terrorist preemptively while he kept shopping for guns and bomb-making materials.
* The terrorist has parked his car bomb in front of the office of the Prime Minister and the headquarters of the biggest tabloid newspaper of Norway; the police couldn't notice it.
* After the bomb attack, they focused on it too much that they ignored the telephone calls from the victims in Utoya island, who were being killed by the terrorist.
* They arrived near the island after a full hour. As if it is not enough, they wasted 16 more minutes to reach the island with a private boat, because their own boat was broken down.
* After all the massacres, they miscounted the bodies. The number of death decreased by twenty after four days. Moreover, they still couldn't release the name of the victims.
And after all this fiasco, the Minister of Justice congratulated the police for their "fantastic" work, while emphasizing that some police officers interrupted their holidays because of these attacks!
Sorry for the hardworking members of the Norwegian police force, but if I were the King of Norway, I would definitely order an independent inquiry on this fiasco. The terrorist may have even collaborated with someone inside the government, especially the police force, because it's hard to explain such a blunder with naivete.
