Police: Bomb Suspect Oslo is a 'fundamentalist Christian'

OSLO - Norwegian police on Saturday (07/23/2011) announced a key suspect in the twin bomb attacks and shootings that killed at least 91 dead were a fundamentalist Christian.

A police official said that information obtained on the internet shows that men's 32-year-old Norwegian is "Christian fundamentalist."

Police said the man arrested in shooting is the ethnic Norwegian and the man had detonated a bomb that killed seven people outside the prime minister's headquarters in Oslo, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) from the camp (location shooting).

Dana Berzingi say fake police officers ordered the men to come closer, then pulled a gun and ammunition from the bag and started shooting.

"Some victims pretending as if they were dead to survive," said the 21-year-old witness. "But after shooting the victim with a weapon, they shot again in the head with a shotgun," he said.

"I lost some friends," said Berzingi, who was still wearing pants covered in blood. He said he used a cell phone from one of his friends to call the police.

Oslo - The suspect in two attacks in and near Oslo, which killed at least 92 people, Anders Breivik Behring, has claimed responsibility, said his lawyer told the Norwegian television station, NRK, Saturday (23 / 7).

Behring Breivik (32) was arrested for allegedly firing at least 85 people to death in a younger generation of Labour Party meeting in one of the island and killed seven more people in a car bomb explosion, which ripped through a government building in Oslo.

"He claimed responsibility," said Geir Lippestad lawyer told the television station was quoted as saying by the AFP.

"He explained that cruel but she had to perform this action," said Lippestad. He added that the attack "appears long-planned".

Behring Breivik joined an anti-immigration party and write a blog that attacks the multi-culturalism and Islam, but police said he was not familiar with all of his victims.

If convicted on terrorism charges, he would face a maximum penalty of 21 years in prison, police said.

One video on YouTube that encourages networking war against Islam shows a picture of Behring Breivik, wearing wet clothes and brandishing automatic weapons.

Some witnesses said the gunman, dressed in police uniforms, opened fire blindly in a long time on the island Utoeya in northwest of Oslo. Meanwhile the victims, young men, could not resist and crumbled to panic or jump into the lake and swam to the mainland.

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was shocked over the incident in a quiet country with 4.8 million residents, said, "One island was turned into a hell of heaven."


The militants who thrives in the country had also launched a surprise attack elsewhere in the past, the most conspicuous place in the United States - where Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people by using the truck bomb in Oklahoma City in 1995.

A police SWAT team finally at the scene of Oslo, 30 kilometers from the capital of Norway, to subdue Behring Breivik after nearly 90 minutes the suspect opened fire, said acting police chief Sveinung Sponheim at a media briefing.