Der Spiegel: Police Identify Right-Wing Extremist as Suspected Perpetrator

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Police Identify Right-Wing Extremist as Suspected Perpetrator
By Gerald Traufetter in Oslo





The suspect in the twin attacks in Norway has been identified as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian fundamentalist with anti-Islamic views. A police officer who described B. as "cold as ice" said the suspect had no known links to the right-wing extremist scene.

Police have identified the man who killed at least 91 people in twin attacks in Norway on Friday as Anders Behring B., a 32-year-old Christian with conservative and nationalistic views. B., who had a gun permit for a Glock pistol and an automatic rifle, apparently lived with his mother in a nondescript four-story brick building in the west of Oslo.

A special police unit raided B.'s apartment around 11 p.m. on Friday. According to investigations by Norwegian media, B. was a right-wing extremist who had repeatedly made anti-Islamic statements on Internet forums. Six days before the attacks, he sent his first and only message from his Twitter account. It read: "One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests" -- a quote from the British philosopher John Stuart Mill.

B.'s Facebook page, which was taken offline late on Friday evening, featured a photograph of the suspect, who has wavy blond hair, a square jaw and blue eyes, looking off into the distance. B. apparently played the computer game "World of Warcraft" and was a member of a shooting club in Oslo. A childhood friend of the suspect told the Norwegian tabloid VG that B. had begun to talk about right-wing extremist ideas when he was in his late 20s. B. also maintained a racist profile on Facebook, the friend said. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,776091,00.html

[Selatius]

1. Ah. "Christian Fundamentalist"

Let's see how much airtime that term gets in the corporate-owned press inside the US.

[CanonRay]

6. You will NEVER hear this on the MSM

[MineralMan]

2. What a surprise...

:sarcasm:

[Schema Thing]

3. .

[OHdem10]

4. So he decided to just kill the opposition. Conservatives and Guns.

[Wilms]

5. ^