WATCH ABOVE: Benedicte Bjoernland, the head of Norwegian security service PST, said the agency had received “reliable information” from a foreign partner about some kind of attack within days.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Norway’s intelligence service said Thursday it has received information about an imminent “concrete threat” against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.
Benedicte Bjoernland, the head of Norwegian security service PST, said the agency has received “reliable information” from a foreign partner about some kind of attack “within days.”
Read the PST press release here
“It was unspecific about what the target might be,” Bjoernland said, adding PST has no information about how or when such an attack would take place.
“We have no information about who is behind such an attack, how it will be carried our, the target or in what way such an attack will be carried out,” read a statement from PST.
“As the information is not specific and not very concrete but at the same time credible, it is difficult to give advice to the citizens of this country on how to act in this situation.”
According to PST’s assessment last month, about 50 people have travelled to Syria from Norway as foreign fighters, half of whom have now returned to Norway. Bjoernland declined to give further details.
The domestic intelligence agency could not exclude that people involved with the threat already were in Norway, adding it had called staff back from their summer vacations to further investigate the information.
Norway is still recovering from the 2011 attack by far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 69 people in a shooting spree at a political youth camp, and eight others in a bombing of government headquarters.
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