The Norway terror attacks? Nationalist motives may be root cause.

Was the perpetrator of the terror attacks that rocked Norway today a 32-year-old Christian who looks like a failed J. Crew model? If the reporting out of Norwegian outlets is right, the answer appears to be yes.

In the immediate aftermath of the attacks earlier today – a car bomb at a government building that includes the offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, and a second gun attack on an island retreat for the youth wing of the prime minister's labor party -- there was speculation in this paper and elsewhere that Islamist militants could have been involved.

That is looking less and less likely. Norwegian news site vg.no says that 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian national, was arrested after a killing rampage on Utoya Island, about 40 kilometers north of Oslo earlier today, according to multiple police sources. CNN reports, citing Norwegian police, that 80 people were murdered at Utoya, while seven were killed by the car bomb in Oslo.

VG.NO, the online presence of major Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang, spoke to someone identified as a childhood friend, who said that Mr. Breivik has identified himself in the past as a nationalist, and that he had posted "controversial" opinions on his Facebook page.

VG used a picture from the Facebook page of a man of the same name which has posed, model-type shots of a square-jawed blond man. The VG site says that Breivik was a registered owner of a Glock handgun (which witnesses on Utoya said was used by the assailant), a rifle, and a shotgun, and that his military training did not go beyond basic national service.The Facebook profile page identifies the man's religious views as "Christian" and his political views as "conservative." He is also identified as being a fan of science fiction and crime TV shows.

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