Local media has now started publishing the names of some of those missing
Before the terror.
One of the big issues at Utøya this year was a campaign for boicott of Israel. Here the Norwegian foreign minister Jonas Gahr Støre is visiting the camp. The leader of AUF who is walking beside him survived. Gahr Støre is also a terror attack survivor, from Serena hotel, Afghanistan.
After the terror - three missing.
One of the missing is Tore Eikeland, leader of Hordaland AUF, Western Norway. He was also a delegate to the Labour convention earlier this year. Below you can see him speaking strongly against the EU postdirective nb. 3. Even though Norway is not a EU member, an agreement with EU means Norway has to implement a lot of the so called EU directives, unless we veto, which we have so far never done. Despite strong warnings from the PM and the rest of the Labour establishment, the grassroots at the conventions decided to vote in favour of a veto. The reason was a mix of union and rural interests. In the speech here, Eikeland among other things point out that in Germany the post directive have led several full time postworkers to depend on welfare in addition to their salary. You can see he get pretty much applause at the end of the speech.
Another missing youth is Iraqiborn Jamil Rafal Yasin. During the last Iraqi war Norway accepted Iraqi refugees in thousands, at a time when the US would hardly accept anybody at all for fear of terrorism. The Wikileaks from Oslo shows that the US Embassy worried very much about the terror threat these Iraqi refugees could become, especially since many of them came without idefication papers.
A third person still missing is Simon Sæbø from Northern Norway. He was a high school graduate this year, and president at his school. The name on the cap is what his fellow students baptized him.
Norway has a local election coming up this autumn, and both Tore Eikeland and Simon Sæbø were candidates. Several communities are probably going to miss their Labour Youth candidates at this year´s election.