Oslo bombed

Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old suspect in Friday's attacks in Norway, held right-wing views, say police.

Police chief Sveinung Sponheim said his internet postings "suggest that he has some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views".

"But whether that was a motivation for the actual act remains to be seen," he told Norwegian broadcaster NRK.

Little is currently known about him apart from what has appeared on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter - and these entries appear to have been set up just days ago.

On the Facebook page attributed to him, he describes himself as a Christian and a conservative. The Facebook page is no longer available but it also listed interests such as body-building and freemasonry.

The gunman was described by witnesses who saw him on Utoeya island as tall and blond - and dressed in a police uniform. The image of him posted on Facebook depict a blond, blue-eyed man.

The Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang quoted a friend as saying that the suspect turned to right-wing extremism when in his late 20s. The paper also said that he participated in online forums expressing strong nationalistic views.

Tabnabs wrote: »

An eye witness account of the island

http://translate.google.ie/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=no&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fprableen.origo.no%2F-%2Fbulletin%2Fshow%2F672218_helvete-paa-utoeya&act=url

via google translate

Just read that - bloody nightmarish.

gambiaman wrote: »

http://twitpic.com/5u6n2l

Murdoch must me going mad-

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/23/norway.explosion/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Another eye witness account here. Scary stuff.

smilerxxx wrote: »

Serious question as I have no idea about guns, but would he have to be very competant to kill 84 fleeing targets? (sorry for the use of the word target )

It was a very small island so they couldn't hide or escape. He would have had to reload his magazine a fair few times.

A bloke from a Canadian paper got hold of his posts on a Norwegian forum, they're here. Lots of standard far right stuff. I was right about him being a 'nazis = leftists' kind of loon.

loon wrote:

Had Western Europe and the U.S. decided to imprison all Marxists (Nazis and Marxists) after WW2 and swearing Marxist principles of hate ideology similar to Nazism, we had never been in the current situation.But we learn at least as long as we live. I doubt that a future patriotic regime will make that mistake again, if we manage to save the West before it is too late ...:-

loon wrote:

National Socialism has always been an extreme left ideology then why are they trying constantly to strategically place it on the right side?If you hate capitalism and the free market, such as Marxists, Nazis and Islamists do, attained the left side, period

loon wrote:

EDL is an example and a Norwegian version is the only way to prevent Flash / SOS to harassNorwegian cultural conservatives from other fronts. Creating a Norwegian EDL should be No.3 on the agenda after we have started up a cultural conservative newspaper with nationaldistribution.The agenda of the Norwegian cultural conservative movement over the next 5 years are therefore:

1. Newspaper with national distribution
2. Work for control of several NGOs
3. Norwegian EDL

A Norwegian EDL? Just pathetic.

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Not sure if its been posted, here's a screen grab of his Facebook page
http://www.ngohq.com/images/AndersBehringBreivikFB.jpg

Someone tell the Daily Mail he played Modern Warfare 2 ....