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The right-wing, anti-government mindset attributed to the Norwegian rampage suspect has observers recalling US extremist Timothy McVeigh, behind the devastating Oklahoma City bombing.
Blew up a van he had packed with explosives and parked outside a large Goverment building in the Oklahoman state capital, on April 19, 1995.
The blast killed 168 people and injured more than 800, in the deadliest ever domestic attack in the history of United State.
Arrested shortly afterwards, McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was found to have been a figure in neo-Nazi groups and even claimed to have acted for the "common good" of Americans, as he railed against what he thought was the dictatorship of the federal government.
After six years he was executed on June 11, 2001, but while on death row, McVeigh said openly that he was motivated anti-government hatred.
In the case of the murderous rampage in Norway that has killed at least 91 people. Norway is peaceful northern European nation, a portrait of the lone attacker has emerged as a "Christian fundamentalist," and links have been made with right-groups.
Widely named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, he identifies as "ethnically Norwegian," and has posted writings at length on his dismay with the Norwegian government and the ruling liberal political party.
An agricultural firm has informed Breivik Oslo bomber purchased some six tons of chemical fertilizer in early May.
The Oklahoma City bombing in the United States drew wide attention and even acclaim from some far-right militias.
Some groups in United State consider Timothy McVeigh as a hero," said Matthew Goodwin, politics lecturer at the University of Nottingham in central England.
According to data collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the United States, the number of dedicated terrorist with a racist, extremist agenda has increased 60 percent since 2000, from 602 then to over 1,000 recorded last year.
The right-wing, anti-government mindset attributed to the Norwegian rampage suspect has observers recalling US extremist Timothy McVeigh, behind the devastating Oklahoma City bombing.
Blew up a van he had packed with explosives and parked outside a large Goverment building in the Oklahoman state capital, on April 19, 1995.
The blast killed 168 people and injured more than 800, in the deadliest ever domestic attack in the history of United State.
Arrested shortly afterwards, McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was found to have been a figure in neo-Nazi groups and even claimed to have acted for the "common good" of Americans, as he railed against what he thought was the dictatorship of the federal government.
After six years he was executed on June 11, 2001, but while on death row, McVeigh said openly that he was motivated anti-government hatred.
In the case of the murderous rampage in Norway that has killed at least 91 people. Norway is peaceful northern European nation, a portrait of the lone attacker has emerged as a "Christian fundamentalist," and links have been made with right-groups.
Widely named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, he identifies as "ethnically Norwegian," and has posted writings at length on his dismay with the Norwegian government and the ruling liberal political party.
An agricultural firm has informed Breivik Oslo bomber purchased some six tons of chemical fertilizer in early May.
The Oklahoma City bombing in the United States drew wide attention and even acclaim from some far-right militias.
Some groups in United State consider Timothy McVeigh as a hero," said Matthew Goodwin, politics lecturer at the University of Nottingham in central England.
According to data collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in the United States, the number of dedicated terrorist with a racist, extremist agenda has increased 60 percent since 2000, from 602 then to over 1,000 recorded last year.
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