Bangkok, August 01: A top German security official warns that the recent terror attacks in Norway could serve as a blueprint for other anti-Muslim militants across Europe.
“This could serve as a blueprint for copycats, from the point of view of a terrorist; Anders Breivik has meticulously and carefully considered how to avoid coming into the view of the security services. This … is an extreme concern for us right now,” Alexander Eisvogel, vice-president of Germany’s domestic anti-terrorist agency said in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine.
Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in bombing and gun attacks in Norway on July 22, has left a 1,500-page manifesto on the internet regarding how he had planned the bloodshed without attracting much police attention.
According to his manifesto, he wished to use the killings as an opportunity of “marketing” his extremist views.
Breivik has expressed strong anti-Islam views. He had previously declared having several discussions with the members of the English Defense League, which is a racist and anti-Muslim group based in Britain.
Last Thursday, the German police confiscated weapons and ammunition in a raid on suspected right wing extremists in Germany’s southern state of Baden Wuerttemberg.
Many analysts believe the West is so obsessed with what it calls Islamic extremism that has overlooked simmering homegrown terrorism among its own nationals.
——Agencies