{"id":14757,"date":"2026-03-11T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14757\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:55:15","slug":"3-brothers-with-iraq-links-arrested-for-terrorist-bombing-of-us-embassy-in-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/14757\/","title":{"rendered":"3 brothers with Iraq links arrested for \u2018terrorist bombing\u2019 of US embassy in Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Norwegian police said on Wednesday that three brothers had been arrested on suspicion of a \u201cterrorist bombing\u201d over a weekend explosion at the US embassy in Oslo that caused minor damage but no injuries.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Police prosecutor Christian Hatlo told a press conference the brothers, who were Norwegian citizens of Iraqi origin, had been arrested in Oslo around 3.30pm and that police were investigating the motive.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are still working from several hypotheses. One of them is whether this is an order from a government entity,\u201d Hatlo said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is quite natural given the target \u2013 the US embassy \u2013 and the security situation the world is in today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hatlo said the investigation would seek to clarify exactly what roles the brothers, who were in their 20s and not previously known to police, had played.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A handout photo released by police on Monday shows a suspect seen on surveillance footage following an explosion at the US embassy in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Oslo Police via Reuters\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/84e7e8a2-071c-4577-910d-c4e5436f1413_17e0215d.jpg\" title=\"A handout photo released by police on Monday shows a suspect seen on surveillance footage following an explosion at the US embassy in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Oslo Police via Reuters\"\/>A handout photo released by police on Monday shows a suspect seen on surveillance footage following an explosion at the US embassy in Oslo, Norway. Photo: Oslo Police via Reuters<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe 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,\u201d Hatlo told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norwegian police said on Wednesday that three brothers had been arrested on suspicion of a \u201cterrorist bombing\u201d over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7899,89,7894,7893,34,94,3038,49,7901,7895,7897,7900,1752,7896,7898],"class_list":{"0":"post-14757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-alireza-jahangiri","9":"tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-christian-hatlo","11":"tag-google-maps","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-iraq","14":"tag-iraqi","15":"tag-middle-east","16":"tag-norwegian","17":"tag-oslo","18":"tag-pst","19":"tag-terrorist-bombing","20":"tag-us-embassy","21":"tag-us-israeli","22":"tag-verdens-gang"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116212067335701229","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}