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What did the Oslo killer want?
Posted By Blake Hounshell Saturday, July 23, 2011 - 6:29 PM
I have just finished reading through what appears to be the 1,518-page manifesto and handbook of the perpetrator of the worst terrorist attack in Norwegian history.
The manifesto, bylined by someone calling himself Andrew Berwick, is entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" and was posted on Stormfront.org, a white supremacist website, and discovered by American blogger Kevin I. Slaughter.
[UPDATE: Norwegian TV has confirmed that the author is indeed the Oslo shooter, according to the New York Times.]
In it, "Berwick" declares himself a "Justiciar Knight Commander," a leading member of a "re-founded" Knights Templar group formed at an April 2002 meeting in London. He claims the founding group has 9 members, whom he does not name, and that three other sympathizers were not able to attend the original meeting.
"Our purpose," the document reads, is to "seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda."
In grim, apocalyptic language, it advocates attacks on "traitors" across Europe who are supposedly enabling a Muslim takeover of the continent.
"[W]e should… not exceed (per 2010) aprox. 45 000 dead and 1 million wounded cultural Marxists/multiculturalists in Western Europe," the author writes. "The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come."
The manifesto also provides detailed instructions for everything from making a bomb to raising funds to preparing physically and mentally for what the author describes as a coming three-stage "civil war" between patriotic nationalists and "multiculturalists" who are, wittingly or not, destroying European civilization.
Filled with hateful rantings against Muslims -- whom the author claims are on a trajectory to take over Europe and erase its culture patrimony -- the writing bears a great resemblence to online comments attributed to Anders Breivik, 32, the confessed architect of a massacre that has so far claimed nearly 100 lives.
The author also claims to be Norwegian, and says that English is not his native language. And at the bottom of the document are several pictures of Breivick in different outfits, including the frogman costume pictured above.
Most suggestive of all, perhaps, is the detailed diary the author kept of his 82-day attempt to secretly build a fertilizer bomb while hiding out at a farm purchased explicitly for that purpose -- chronicling his attempts to construct a device that would kill as many people as possible.
Here's his entry from June 13, when he had his first successful detonation:
I prepared a test device today and drove off to a very isolated site. The test bomb was composed of a 3g DDNP primary and a 30g PA secondary. If this test would fail, I would abandon operation A and move forward with the non-spectacular operation B.
I lit the fuse, went out of range and waited. It was probably the longest 10 seconds I have ever endured…
BOOM! The detonation was successful!!!:-) I quickly drove away to avoid any potential unwanted attention, from people in the vicinity. I would have to come back a few hours later to investigate the blast hole, to see if both compounds had detonated.
Oddly, despite his evident hatred of Muslims and Arabs, "Berwick" professes admiration for al Qaeda, which he lists as one of only two "successful militant organisations" due to its "superior structural adaptation."
"If Muhammad was alive today," he writes, "Usama Bin Laden would have been his second in command."
Elsewhere, he cites al Qaeda's training manual as a reference, and declares, "Just like Jihadi warriors are the plum tree of the Ummah, we will be the plum tree for Europe and for Christianity."
In another eerie parallel, he also calls for suicidal operations in service of the larger cause: "Let us be perfectly clear; if you are unwilling to martyr yourself for the cause, then the PCCTS, Knights Templar is not for you."
(PCCTS, he explains, stands for "Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici" or, in English, "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.")
Chillingly, the manifesto ends:
I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51.
Sincere regards,
Andrew Berwick
Justiciar Knight Commander
Knights Templar Europe
Knights Templar Norway
blog.foreignpolicy.com
Posted By Blake Hounshell Saturday, July 23, 2011 - 6:29 PM
I have just finished reading through what appears to be the 1,518-page manifesto and handbook of the perpetrator of the worst terrorist attack in Norwegian history.
The manifesto, bylined by someone calling himself Andrew Berwick, is entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence" and was posted on Stormfront.org, a white supremacist website, and discovered by American blogger Kevin I. Slaughter.
[UPDATE: Norwegian TV has confirmed that the author is indeed the Oslo shooter, according to the New York Times.]
In it, "Berwick" declares himself a "Justiciar Knight Commander," a leading member of a "re-founded" Knights Templar group formed at an April 2002 meeting in London. He claims the founding group has 9 members, whom he does not name, and that three other sympathizers were not able to attend the original meeting.
"Our purpose," the document reads, is to "seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda."
In grim, apocalyptic language, it advocates attacks on "traitors" across Europe who are supposedly enabling a Muslim takeover of the continent.
"[W]e should… not exceed (per 2010) aprox. 45 000 dead and 1 million wounded cultural Marxists/multiculturalists in Western Europe," the author writes. "The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come."
The manifesto also provides detailed instructions for everything from making a bomb to raising funds to preparing physically and mentally for what the author describes as a coming three-stage "civil war" between patriotic nationalists and "multiculturalists" who are, wittingly or not, destroying European civilization.
Filled with hateful rantings against Muslims -- whom the author claims are on a trajectory to take over Europe and erase its culture patrimony -- the writing bears a great resemblence to online comments attributed to Anders Breivik, 32, the confessed architect of a massacre that has so far claimed nearly 100 lives.
The author also claims to be Norwegian, and says that English is not his native language. And at the bottom of the document are several pictures of Breivick in different outfits, including the frogman costume pictured above.
Most suggestive of all, perhaps, is the detailed diary the author kept of his 82-day attempt to secretly build a fertilizer bomb while hiding out at a farm purchased explicitly for that purpose -- chronicling his attempts to construct a device that would kill as many people as possible.
Here's his entry from June 13, when he had his first successful detonation:
I prepared a test device today and drove off to a very isolated site. The test bomb was composed of a 3g DDNP primary and a 30g PA secondary. If this test would fail, I would abandon operation A and move forward with the non-spectacular operation B.
I lit the fuse, went out of range and waited. It was probably the longest 10 seconds I have ever endured…
BOOM! The detonation was successful!!!:-) I quickly drove away to avoid any potential unwanted attention, from people in the vicinity. I would have to come back a few hours later to investigate the blast hole, to see if both compounds had detonated.
Oddly, despite his evident hatred of Muslims and Arabs, "Berwick" professes admiration for al Qaeda, which he lists as one of only two "successful militant organisations" due to its "superior structural adaptation."
"If Muhammad was alive today," he writes, "Usama Bin Laden would have been his second in command."
Elsewhere, he cites al Qaeda's training manual as a reference, and declares, "Just like Jihadi warriors are the plum tree of the Ummah, we will be the plum tree for Europe and for Christianity."
In another eerie parallel, he also calls for suicidal operations in service of the larger cause: "Let us be perfectly clear; if you are unwilling to martyr yourself for the cause, then the PCCTS, Knights Templar is not for you."
(PCCTS, he explains, stands for "Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici" or, in English, "Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon.")
Chillingly, the manifesto ends:
I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51.
Sincere regards,
Andrew Berwick
Justiciar Knight Commander
Knights Templar Europe
Knights Templar Norway
blog.foreignpolicy.com
"Berwick" declares himself a "Justiciar Knight Commander," a leading member of a "re-founded" Knights Templar group formed at an April 2002 meeting in London
WTF ... there are more of these idiots around. I'm afraid we haven't seen the last of this group :S
WTF ... there are more of these idiots around. I'm afraid we haven't seen the last of this group :S
There was something in there about making contact with cell 8b and 8c. With a couple of references to 'others'. Scary, but then again, we've been living under constant of terrorist attack from al-qeada & co for years, so nothing changes in that regard.
That's true. But now we are also under attack by the Christian fundamentalists, that's another group to look out for. More, in this case, is always worse ...
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Wow ... that's a lot!!
Vince Cable in attack on US 'right-wing nutters'
Vince Cable has attacked leading US Republican politicians for holding up a deal to reduce US government debt.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the business secretary called them "a few right-wing nutters in the American Congress".
Unless a deal on Capitol Hill is agreed before 2 August, the US Treasury could run out of money to pay its bills.
Mr Cable said it presented a bigger risk to the global markets than the continuing debt woes in the eurozone.
Wow ... that's a lot!!
Vince Cable in attack on US 'right-wing nutters'
Vince Cable has attacked leading US Republican politicians for holding up a deal to reduce US government debt.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the business secretary called them "a few right-wing nutters in the American Congress".
Unless a deal on Capitol Hill is agreed before 2 August, the US Treasury could run out of money to pay its bills.
Mr Cable said it presented a bigger risk to the global markets than the continuing debt woes in the eurozone.
I feel so sad for the Norwegians who lost their loved ones... So sad when so many young die. You can see the Christian fundamentalist terrorist here picking off a boy while he is begging for his life.. brought tears to my eyes... he killed them cause he wanted to kill their liberal beliefs of tolerance towards muslims...
The picture is too big. Plus, I don't think it will do to show pictures of murdered people. Not here.
The animal is not mad. The way he had planned this whole thing out and his manifesto shows that he beleives that this act from him is the seed and birth of a Christian Terrorist Organization similar to Al Qaeda, and he is Osama in this organization.
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The picture is too big. Plus, I don't think it will do to show pictures of murdered people. Not here.
The animal is not mad. The way he had planned this whole thing out and his manifesto shows that he beleives that this act from him is the seed and birth of a Christian Terrorist Organization similar to Al Qaeda, and he is Osama in this organization.
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Well it was a Christian terrorist organisation, wasn't it? The fact that it was condemned by almost every other Christian makes no difference here, Muslims are also against Al-Qaeda etc.
So yes, a new threat to peaceful lives appeared, even worse than Al-Qaeda - these guys only wanted to be left alone, the guy who made the massacre was trying to influence Europe.
So yes, a new threat to peaceful lives appeared, even worse than Al-Qaeda - these guys only wanted to be left alone, the guy who made the massacre was trying to influence Europe.
This organisation was Christian the same as Red Army was a "army who brought peace" in 1945.
One puzzling thing. The Norwegian was planning to change Europe, he wanted to fight against Muslims, etc? So why did he get caught in the first action? Why did not carry out rapid attacks, executions, to later escape and plan further attacks? Instead, he caught by the police and allowed to deconspiracy himself and his "organization". Only I see the absolute lack of logic?
You can call him a Christian fundamentalist who wanted to change Europe, but for me it is just plain sick freak who wanted to be famous. And nothing more.
One puzzling thing. The Norwegian was planning to change Europe, he wanted to fight against Muslims, etc? So why did he get caught in the first action? Why did not carry out rapid attacks, executions, to later escape and plan further attacks? Instead, he caught by the police and allowed to deconspiracy himself and his "organization". Only I see the absolute lack of logic?
You can call him a Christian fundamentalist who wanted to change Europe, but for me it is just plain sick freak who wanted to be famous. And nothing more.
He explains in his manifesto that he sees the court-case as a perfect oppurtunity to broadcast his beliefs, which is why he did not commit suicide or struggle when he was arrested.
As we all know too well, when a terrible action is performed, there will be copycats. He most likely wants to be idolized by a select few, and he hopes they will carry on the operation he started.
Sadly, I don't think it's unrealistic that this will happen, in Norway we saw this trend with church-burning in the early 1990's. People wanted to be a part of a group, and it spawned even more burnings. I just hope for the love of my friends and family that it doesn't strike again as badly as it did three days ago.
Also, in my point of view this is a political action, not mainly caused by christianity. Though, there is no doubt he sees himself as christian fundamentalist, and that this affects his relationship toward other religions, which seems to be his main concern.
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As we all know too well, when a terrible action is performed, there will be copycats. He most likely wants to be idolized by a select few, and he hopes they will carry on the operation he started.
Sadly, I don't think it's unrealistic that this will happen, in Norway we saw this trend with church-burning in the early 1990's. People wanted to be a part of a group, and it spawned even more burnings. I just hope for the love of my friends and family that it doesn't strike again as badly as it did three days ago.
Also, in my point of view this is a political action, not mainly caused by christianity. Though, there is no doubt he sees himself as christian fundamentalist, and that this affects his relationship toward other religions, which seems to be his main concern.
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How do you think - how strong were the previous terrorist attacks in Europe (Madrid, London, Stockholm) being the real "inspiration" for him to hate the muslims and do prepare his own attack (this time addressed to his own citizens ...)?
Can we say, that Friday's attack was a revenge on the politicians responsible for the earlier bombings of Muslims?
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Can we say, that Friday's attack was a revenge on the politicians responsible for the earlier bombings of Muslims?
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I can only speculate how he has been inspired. Maybe there is something about it in his compendium, I only read a small part of it (his diary).
However, the bombing has been compared to the oklahoma city bombing, but I think that is mostly because he used the same kind of bomb.
However, the bombing has been compared to the oklahoma city bombing, but I think that is mostly because he used the same kind of bomb.
Well he's been planning it for 9 years, so whatever happened about 10 years ago may have inspired him? 9/11 perhaps?
I've read quite a lot of that compendium thing, mainly because the media here were spewing crap, trying to lie about a group i belong to, but all the compendium shows is that he was a nutter that ahd views that dont fit with any organisation/group/religion or anything. Hence why he was starting his own Knights Templar thing up.
The amount of planning he put in, even for that, just insane. The guys completely bonkers and living in some kind of whacky fantasy land.
I've read quite a lot of that compendium thing, mainly because the media here were spewing crap, trying to lie about a group i belong to, but all the compendium shows is that he was a nutter that ahd views that dont fit with any organisation/group/religion or anything. Hence why he was starting his own Knights Templar thing up.
The amount of planning he put in, even for that, just insane. The guys completely bonkers and living in some kind of whacky fantasy land.