Norway police don’t rule out terror in US Embassy blast but stress investigation is in early stages | CNN

Norwegian police said they weren’t ruling out a terrorism link to an explosion at the US Embassy in Oslo early Sunday that caused only minor damage, but the investigation was still in its early stages. The blast comes at a time of heightened security for US embassies and consulates around the world as Israel and the United States conduct a rapidly escalating bombing campaign against Iran. Multiple US diplomatic buildings in Gulf kingdoms that host American troops have been targeted by Iranian retaliatory strikes, including in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It is not known whether the blast in Oslo is linked to events in the Middle East. “We’ve determined that an explosion hit the American Embassy,” Oslo police spokesperson Mikael Dellemyr told public broadcaster NRK, adding that the blast occurred at the entry to the compound’s consular section. Frode Larsen, head of the joint investigation and intelligence unit, said it is “natural to view this in the context of the current security situation, and that it is a targeted attack against the American embassy.” “But we have not locked ourselves into just that one hypothesis,” Larsen said at a press conference in Oslo on Sun