Reading such reports below makes one wonder why anti-terrorism experts have been working so hard to create a link between the gunman and Arab/Muslim terrorists - one started by saying maybe they recruited him as they had said they will recruit 'white' people then when this could not hold water one said he learnt this from them:
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Norway attacks: Utøya gunman boasted of links to UK far right
Anders Brehing Breivik took part in online discussions with members of
the EDL and other anti-Islamic groups
Mark Townsend in Sundvollen, Peter Beaumont and Tracy McVeigh
Sunday July 24 2011
The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/23/norway-attacks-utoya-gunman
Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of the murder of at least 92
Norwegians in a bomb and gun massacre, boasted online about his
discussions with the far-right English Defence League and other anti-
Islamic European organisations.
The Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, said Norwegian
officials were working with foreign intelligence agencies to see if
there was any international involvement in the slaughter. "We have
running contact with other countries' intelligence services," he said.
Breivik was arrested on Utøya island where he shot and killed at least
85 people, mostly teenagers, at a youth summer camp for supporters of
Norway's Labour party after bombing Oslo's government district just
hours before. Dressed as a police officer, he ordered the teenagers to
gather round him before opening fire. Survivors described how dozens
of people were mown down. The massacre led to the largest death toll
ever recorded by a single gunman on the rampage.
Ida Knudsen, 16, said she had been in a group of 100 who had initially
run from the killer, but that was reduced to about 60 as the gunman
pursued them. Eventually she was one of 12 who climbed into a boat and
escaped.
Another survivor, 15-year-old Mattori Anson, described how he fled
into a cabin with 40 other teenagers. They blocked the door and the
killer tried to get inside. "Then he began shooting at the door."
Eventually he gave up and the occupants all survived.
With the entire island a crime scene, officers were still combing the
shoreline on Saturday and boats were searching the water for more
bodies amid fears the toll could rise further. Police were continuing
to investigate whether there had been a second gunman on the island.
The disclosure of Breivik's claimed links with far-right organisations
came as details continued to emerge about the rightwing Christian
fundamentalist and Freemason behind Norway's worst postwar act of
violence.
It was revealed that the 32-year-old former member of the country's
conservative Progress party - who had become ever more extreme in his
hatred of Muslims, leftwingers and the country's political
establishment - had ordered six tonnes of fertiliser in May to be used
in the bombing. While police continued to interrogate Breivik, who was
charged with the mass killings, evidence of his increasingly far-right
world-view emerged from an article he had posted on several
Scandinavian websites, including Nordisk, a site frequented by neo-
Nazis, far-right radicals and Islamophobes since 2009.
The Norwegian daily VG quoted one of Breivik's friends, saying that he
had become a rightwing extremist in his late 20s and was now a strong
opponent of multiculturalism, expressing strong nationalistic views in
online debates.
Breivik had talked admiringly online about conversations he had had
with unnamed English Defence League members and the organisation Stop
the Islamification of Europe (SIOE) over the success of provocative
street actions leading to violence.
"I have on some occasions had discussions with SIOE and EDL and
recommended them to use certain strategies," he wrote two years ago.
"The tactics of the EDL are now to 'lure' an overreaction from the
Jihad Youth/Extreme-Marxists, something they have succeeded in doing
several times already."
Contacted by email, the EDL had not answered.
The latest disclosures came as the Norwegian prime minister, Jens
Stoltenberg, flew by helicopter to a hotel in the town of Sundvollen -
close to the island of Ut?ya ? where many survivors were taken and
where relatives converged to reunite with loved ones or identify their
dead.
"A whole world is thinking of them," Stoltenberg said, his voice
cracking with emotion. He said the twin attack made Friday the
deadliest day in Norway's peacetime history. "This is beyond
comprehension. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare for those who have
been killed, for their mothers and fathers, family and friends."
Buildings around the capital lowered their flags to half-mast while
people streamed to Oslo cathedral to light candles and lay flowers.
Outside, mourners began building a makeshift altar from dug-up
cobblestones. On Saturday the Queen wrote to Norway's King Harald to
offer her condolences and express her shock and sadness.
Breivik's Facebook page was blocked, but a cached version describes a
conservative Christian from Oslo. The profile veers between references
to lofty political philosophers and gory popular films, television
shows and video games. The account appears to have been set up on 17
July. The site lists no "friends" or social connections.
guardian.co.uk Copyright (c) Guardian News and Media Limited. 2011
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