Oslo, Norway – Norway Suspect Wanted European Anti-Muslim Crusade

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    EDS NOTE: IMAGE HAS BEEN DIGITALLY ALTERED BY THE ORIGINAL SOURCE TO REMOVE THE BACKGROUND - This image shows Anders Behring Breivik from a manifesto attributed to him that was discovered Saturday, July 23, 2011. Breivik is a suspect in a bombing in Oslo and a shooting on a nearby island which occurred on Friday, July 22, 2011. The Norwegian news agency NTB said Breivik wrote a 1,500-page manifesto before the attack in which he attacked multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. The document, which contained this and other photos, also described how to acquire explosives. (AP Photo/via Scanpix)Oslo, Norway – The man blamed for attacks on Norway’s government headquarters and an island retreat for young people that left at least 93 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday.

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    A manifesto he published online — which police are poring over and said was posted the day of the attack — ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on “indigenous Europeans,” whom he accused of betraying their heritage. It added that they would be punished for their “treasonous acts.”

    The lawyer for the 32-year-old Norwegian suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, said Sunday that his client wrote the document alone. While police said they were investigating reports of a second assailant on the island, the lawyer said Breivik claims also claims no one helped him.

    The treatise detailed plans to acquire firearms and explosives, and even appeared to describe a test explosion: “BOOM! The detonation was successful!!!” It ends with a note dated 12:51 p.m. on July 22: “I believe this will be my last entry.”

    That day, a bomb killed seven people in downtown Oslo and, hours later, a gunman opened fire on dozens of young people at a retreat on Utoya island. Police said Sunday that the death toll in the shooting rose to 86.

    That brings the number of victims to 93, with more than 90 wounded. There are still people missing at both scenes. Six hearses pulled up at the shore of the lake surrounding the island on Sunday, as rescuers on boats continued to search for bodies in the water. Body parts remain inside the Oslo building, which housed the prime minister’s office.

    Police and his lawyer have said that Breivik confessed to the twin attacks, but denied criminal responsibility for a day that shook peaceful Norway to its core and was the deadliest ever in peacetime. Breivik has been charged with terrorism and will be arraigned on Monday.

    Geir Lippestad, Breivik’s lawyer, said his client has asked for an open court hearing “because he wants to explain himself.”

    Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said a forensics expert from Interpol would join the investigation on Sunday.

    European security officials said Sunday they were aware of increased Internet chatter from individuals claiming they belonged to the Knights Templar group that Breivik refers to in the manifesto. They said they were still investigating claims that Breivik, and other far-right individuals, attended a London meeting of the group in 2002. The two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation.

    The officials would also not immediately confirm that they had been aware of Breivik as a potential threat.

    As authorities pursued the suspect’s motives, Oslo mourned the victims. Norway’s King Harald V and his wife Queen Sonja and Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg crowded into Oslo Cathedral, where the pews were packed, and people spilled into the plaza outside the building. The area was strewn with flowers and candles, and people who could not fit in the grand church huddled under umbrellas in a drizzle.

    The king and queen both wiped tears from their eyes during the service for “sorrow and hope.”

    Afterward, people sobbed and hugged one another in the streets, as many lingered over the memorial of flowers and candles. The royal couple and prime minister later visited the site of the bombing in Oslo.

    More was coming to light Sunday about the man who police say confessed to a car bomb at government headquarters in Oslo and then, hours later, opening fire on young people at an island political retreat.

    Both targets were linked to Norway’s left-leaning Labor Party. Breivik’s manifesto pillories the political correctness of liberals and warns that their work will end in the colonization of Europe by Muslims.

    Such fears may derive, at least in part, from the fact that Norway has grown increasingly multicultural in recent years as the prosperous Nordic nation has opened its arms to thousands of conflict refugees from Pakistan, Iraq and Somalia. The Labor Party retreat — which Prime Minister Stoltenberg fondly remembered attending summer after summer himself — reflected the country’s changing demographic as the children of immigrants get more involved in politics.

    The assaults have rattled largely peaceful Norway, home to the Nobel Prize for Peace and where the average policeman patrolling in the streets doesn’t carry a firearm. Norwegians pride themselves on the openness of their society and cherish the idea of free expression.

    “He wanted a change in society and, from his perspective, he needed to force through a revolution,” Lippestad, the lawyer, told public broadcaster NRK. “He wished to attack society and the structure of society.”

    Lippestad said Breivik spent years writing the 1,500-page manifesto entitled, “2083 – A European Declaration of Independence.” It was signed “Andrew Berwick.” The date was referred to later in the document as the year that coups d’etat would engulf Europe and overthrow the elite he maligns.

    Sponheim, the police chief, said there was no indication whether Breivik had selected his targets or fired randomly on the island. The manifesto vowed revenge on those it accused of betraying Europe.

    “We, the free indigenous peoples of Europe, hereby declare a pre-emptive war on all cultural Marxist/multiculturalist elites of Western Europe. … We know who you are, where you live and we are coming for you,” the document said. “We are in the process of flagging every single multculturalist traitor in Western Europe. You will be punished for your treasonous acts against Europe and Europeans.”

    The use of an anglicized pseudonym could be explained by a passage in the manifesto describing the founding, in April 2002 in London, of a group he calls a new Knights Templar. The Knights Templar was a medieval order created to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land after the First Crusade.

    A 12-minute video clip posted on YouTube with the same title as the manifesto featured symbolic imagery of the Knights Templar and crusader kings as well as slides suggesting Europe is being overrun by Muslims. Police could not confirm that Breivik had posted the video, which also featured photographs of him dressed in a formal military uniform and in a wet suit pointing an assault rifle.

    The video was a series of slides that accused the left in Europe of allowing Muslims to overrun the continent: One image showed the BBC’s logo with the “C” changed into an Islamic crescent. Another referenced the former Soviet Union, declaring that the end result of the left’s actions would be an “EUSSR.”

    In London, the leader of Ramadhan Foundation, one of Britain’s largest Muslim groups, said mosques are being extra vigilant in the wake of the attacks. Mohammed Shafiq told The Associated Press he was talking to other European Muslim leaders and British police about the need to increase security.

    The last 100 pages apparently lay out details of Breivik’s social and personal life, including his steroid use and an intention to solicit prostitutes in the days before the attack.

    Also Sunday, police carried out raids in an Oslo neighborhood on suspicion of explosives. Police spokesman Henning Holtaas said no explosives were found and no one was arrested.

    Witnesses at the island youth retreat described how Breivik lured them close by saying he was a police officer before opening fire. People hid and fled into the water to escape the rampage; some played dead.

    Divers continued to comb the lake waters around the island where some 600 young people were attending a Labor Party summer retreat when it came under attack, amid fears people may have drowned while trying to swim to safety.

    Police said the bomb used in the Oslo blast was a mixture of fertilizer and fuel used to blow up a federal building in Oklahoma city in 1995. A farm supply store said Saturday they had alerted police that Breivik bought six metric tons of fertilizer, which can be used in homemade bombs.


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    Tzi_Bar_David
    Tzi_Bar_David
    12 years ago

    The most time he can serve under Norwegian law is 21 years behind bars.

    Darth_Zeidah
    Darth_Zeidah
    12 years ago

    ?מדוע הוא לבוש כבונה חופשי

    pbalaw
    pbalaw
    12 years ago

    Maybe if more ppl had guns, there would have been a fraction of fatalities.

    12 years ago

    Norway supported Jews in World War !!. We as parents, brothers, sisters , husbands must feel and share in Norway’s pain now. But, let us hope that this was not karma (middah kneged middah) for all the ANTI Israel support prevalent in recent years in your country. Your support for the Moslems anti Jewish movements in your country and anti-Israel support of recent years was destined for some terror be it the right or left. You will soon not only live your way of life but the population of your people will be erased from the face of the earth by the rapid Islamic growth rates.
    Your embracing these islamic populations was bound to cause either an Islamic terror attack (soon to come in years ahead as all over their recent history) or a backlash terror from the right. Either way you can now see how Israeli populations have been subjected to civillian bus attacks for years with no response from your people fearing their moslem citizens. Either way you will never be the same . We cry with you as bneui Rachmonim.

    Glassman
    Glassman
    12 years ago

    To #1 , according to their law, if he’s a danger, they can increase his sentence.

    12 years ago

    i agree with you. with all your wrote. now i pray more of our people in the gentile world will know the grievious harm we have inflicted on the jewish people by forcing ‘treaties’ down their throats.

    Benny
    Benny
    12 years ago

    I wonder, why did it happen in Oslo?
    Maybe they did something stupid there like in 1993?

    BLONDI
    BLONDI
    12 years ago

    there is no shortage of sickos in the world….he looks norwegian and was killing his own….

    5TResident
    Noble Member
    5TResident
    12 years ago

    Anti-Muslim crusade today; anti-Jewish crusade tomorrow. Like it or not, we are bound up with the Muslims. He who hates one, hates both.