You think? If it’s the picture I’ve seen, he couldn’t look *more *like a social misfit/serial killer type! (Yes, I know, judge a book by its cover and all that, but that’s a psycho’s haircut if ever I saw one.)
Not much else I can add to what everyone has written above. It seems even more shocking because it’s Norway. I mean, Norway - stuff like this isn’t supposed to happen there.
Gods. I went to sleep with 10 confirmed deaths at Utøya and wake up to 84.
this is horrible. I… can´t express what I feel right now. this is just pure evil.
thanks to all of you out there for your sympathy and support.
the twitter link is removed, but you can google image him
I just got woken up with “84 dead at Utøya”. I’m crying as I write this.
AUF just declared that they will be going back to the same island next year and every year.
The Prime Minister said (when international terrorism was still suspected):
“We will fight back with more democracy, by becoming an even more open society. We will not be bombed to silence, we will not be shot to silence.”
The poor man has been at that camp every year, first as a participant as a kid, then as a visiting politician. He must have known almost all the dead, certainly their families. The bomb downtown must have killed his colleagues and friends, too.
What a laudable sentiment.
Reports say Breivik set up a shell company to acquire fertilizer to make the bomb. What weaponry did this bastard have at the island? And how did he get hold of it? I’m not familiar with Norwegian arms law, though I do know someone from the far north who says rifles are ubiquitous because of the danger from polar bears.
The gun laws are quite strict, but he belonged to a pistol shooting club, and had two legal handguns. Only handguns have been mentioned so far. Is that even possible? To shoot 84 fleeing, panicked children with two handguns?
He set up some sort of vegetable production operation to buy large quantities of fertilizer, to make the bomb. There is nothing mysterious about that bomb. Anyone could have made it. I know how to make one just like it.
I’ve heard it speculated on another forum that many of the reported deaths may have been from people fleeing from the gunfire into the water and drowning or freezing. And that there are reports that he first gathered together a large crowd in his pose as a police officer.
there was weapons in a car assumed to be his, an automatic rifle specifically and newspapers has mentioned both a handgun and automatic pistol. so it is likely he has aquired several weapons illegally.
Is this the highest death toll for a single-shooter massacre ever? I can’t think of any with a more deadly outcome. 
700 or so people trapped on a small island, the police had their hands full with the bombing so he had plenty of time, “fish in a barrel” comes to mind. 
Breaking: Police have arrested another man near Sundvollen (where the prime minister just arrived). More speculation about another gunman - several witnesses claim that there were two shooters.
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700 or so people trapped on a small island, the police had their hands full with the bombing so he had plenty of time, “fish in a barrel” comes to mind.
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And the water around Utøya is very cold and deep, and young children may not have remembered to kick off their shoes and shed their jackets, as we are taught to do. And even those who stayed on land may have been injured, and it was dark before the island was completely searched. Some may have bled to death, alone, in the dark.
That’s a lot more worrying than a lone nutter.
Reports that police disabled a ‘device’ at the island too.
It was on television, WBRA Blue Ridge PBS which regularly carries certain BBC programming.
I was horrified to see the original projection of 25-30 dead on the island. 84 is just…man. The evil that humans can perpetuate will sadly never cease to surprise us. My heart and thoughts are with Norge.
This person was arrested just before the prime minister arrived, right in front of the press. He was apparently carrying a knife. As he was hauled off, he told the press that he was one of the kids who was on the island yesterday, a member of the labour youth organization, and he was carrying a knife because he didn’t trust anyone and didn’t feel safe.
I don’t think this is a second gunman. Seems to be one of the kids who has freaked out? If so, I can hardly blame him. Of course, the police, not taking any chances, cuffed him and drove him off straight away. Can’t blame them either.
According to Wikipedia, the Uiryeong massacre was the worst until yesterday. So yeah, I think what happened in Norway is the worst now.
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Man…how horrible. Thoughts and best wishes to all Norwegians.
Damn!