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Norway Arrests Three Brothers in Oslo US Embassy Bombing Investigation
Three Norwegian-Iraqi brothers in their 20s were arrested for planting an improvised explosive device at the US Embassy, causing minor damage with no injuries, as terrorism is investigated.
- On Wednesday, March 11, 2026, Oslo police arrested three brothers around 3.30pm in connection with the blast that damaged the U.S. Embassy in Oslo's consular section early on Sunday, causing no injuries.
- Investigators on Monday said one leading hypothesis ties the blast to the Middle East conflict and are probing whether a foreign state ordered it, while Norwegian security service PST warned last month that Iran could use proxy actors.
- Police say the device was concealed in a backpack, an improvised explosive device, and investigators believe one brother planted it while the other two were complicit, police prosecutor Christian Hatlo said.
- With embassies on high alert, Norway's Minister of Justice and Public Security Astri Aas-Hansen welcomed the arrests, describing them as a breakthrough, while the U.S. State Department investigates, police say security measures remain heightened.
- With suspects not yet questioned as of Wednesday, Hatlo said investigators are "still working from several hypotheses," including whether this is "an order from a government entity," amid Europe's heightened alert from U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.
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Norwegian police have arrested three men in connection with the explosion at the US Embassy in Oslo last weekend. They are suspected of an act of terrorism. The three brothers are in their twenties and are Norwegian nationals, with families originally from Iraq, police reported. Authorities suspect the men of detonating an improvised explosive device (IED) at the US Embassy in the Norwegian capital "with the intent to kill people or cause signif…
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