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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.

Norway Terror Attacks Toll Upped to 87: Norwegian Man Arrested

Norwegian officials early Saturday dramatically increased the death toll in a gun attack at a youth camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya to at least 90.

Police have arrested a Norwegian man for the deadly attack at the summer youth camp run by Norway's ruling party, and the same man was responsible for a bombing at a government building in central Oslo several hours earlier that claimed at least seven lives.

The 90 dead at the youth camp was a dramatic increase over a Friday police report that at least 10 had died there. Police director Oystein Maeland told reporters early Saturday in Norway that many more victims were discovered after the first toll was announced.

 

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A giant explosion rocked the government buildings in Oslo, Norway, on Friday, state TV  said, with at least one person dead.

Windows in many buildings had been blown out, and people were in the street bleeding ,with parts hit of the blast NRK said on its website. The cause of the blast remains unknown.

There are conflicting reports about whether a second blast followed the first, which occurred mid-day in the center of the Norwegian capital.

One explosion happened near a government building housing the office of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, said Linda Reinholdsen, a reporter for Norwegian state TV  Another hit near the Norwegian parliament, she told .

Several buildings in Oslo were on fire, she said, and smoke was pouring from them.

Walter Gibbs, a journalist with Reuters, said he saw eight injured people, including two or three with serious wounds and one who looked dead.

Gibbs said he believes one explosion happened on an upper floor of a main government building. He said it blew out every window on the side of the building.

The blast also severely damaged the Oil Ministry and left it in flames, he said.