{"id":4712,"date":"2011-07-23T05:20:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T09:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=4712"},"modified":"2011-07-23T11:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:42:29","slug":"two-terrorist-groups-take-credit-for-norway-bombing-attack-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/07\/two-terrorist-groups-take-credit-for-norway-bombing-attack-on-children","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Norway bombing, attack on youth camp; shadowy groups claim credit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials have a suspect in custody in Friday\u2019s bomb attack in Oslo, Norway, and a murderous youth camp rampage 50 miles away.<\/p>\n

Seven have been confirmed killed in the Oslo blast, and reports are unconfirmed of as many as 80 killed in the summer camp shooting.<\/p>\n

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Suspect dressed for Masonic Lodge ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both the bombing and the shootings may have been an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Norway’s Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

Though police did not release the suspect’s name, Norwegian national broadcaster NRK said 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik was in police custody and that police had searched his Oslo apartment overnight. NRK and other Norwegian media posted pictures of the blond, blue-eyed Norwegian. One of the photos shows the suspect in a tuxedo and Masonic Lodge apron.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press said the suspect was a “Christian,” apparently based on what was believed to be his Facebook profile, on which he had selected “Christian” as his religion.<\/p>\n

News media broadcast chilling video interviews with some of the children who hid in fear as the killer, dressed in a police uniform, tried to lure them to him, according to the internet news site,\u00a0The Blaze.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A police official said the suspect appears to have acted alone in both attacks, and that \u201cit seems like that this is not linked to any international terrorist organizations at all.\u201d The official spoke on condition of anonymity because that information had not been officially released by Norway\u2019s police.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems it\u2019s not Islamic-terror related,\u201d the official said. \u201cThis seems like a madman\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The official said the attack \u201cis probably more Norway\u2018s Oklahoma City than it is Norway\u2019s World Trade Center.\u201d Domestic terrorists carried out the 1995 attack on a federal building in Oklahoma City, while foreign terrorists were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.<\/p>\n

London’s Daily Mail<\/em> newspaper reported the suspect\u00a0was “blond, 6-foot and Nordic-looking” and that an obscure Islamist group calling itself Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami, or\u00a0“The Helpers of the Global Jihad” claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation for the publication in Norway of controversial cartoons lampooning the prophet Mohammad.\u00a0According to the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, the group issued a statement claiming responsibility in a message that said the attack was a response to Norwegian forces\u2019 presence in Afghanistan and to unspecified insults to the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n

The British news service Reuters reported that in a message posted on the password-protected Shumukh al-Islam forum, Abu Suleiman al-Nasser said the Oslo bombings are \u201canother message arriving in the countries of Europe from the mujahideen (holy warriors).\u201d\u00a0Al-Nasser has made several threats to European countries participating in the war in Afghanistan.\u00a0Another posting by a participant called Emir Grozny said: \u201cThreat against the Prime Minister of Norway. You have only moments to withdraw your soldiers from the grave of Khurasan and if not\u2026 you will see blood running in the streets.\u201d\u00a0“The grave of Khurasan” refers to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

“We have warned since the Stockholm raid of more operations,\u201d the group said, apparently referring to a 201 bombing in Sweden.\u00a0\u201cWhat you see is only the beginning, and there is more to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not uncommon for shadowy groups to claim responsibility for terrorist actions in which they have no involvement.<\/p>\n

Police tied the arrested suspect to both the bombing and the summer camp shootings. They noted that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg may have been scheduled to speak at the camp.\u00a0The bomb blast in Oslo, Norway\u2019s capital where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded, left windows in the 20-floor high-rise where Stoltenberg works were shattered.<\/p>\n

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