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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

 

PECHORIN

7:54 AM ET

July 24, 2011

Far right violence

It's interesting to see how his writings and actions have been received at Stormfront. Approximately half the posters are attempting to distance their beliefs from his actions, primarily by saying that because he was sympathetic to Israel he cannot be a true neo-Nazi (some go so far as to say that this was a 'Zionist plot'.) Others have made disturbingly supportive statements; usually vague so as to keep within the forum's rules prohibiting direct incitement to violence and presumably protect themselves legally. Still, there are many who say that what he did was inevitable or admirable.

I fear that we're going to see more violence from these groups in the future, they're becoming increasingly desperate as they see societies and attitudes changing in ways inimical to their hateful beliefs. Most do not believe that there is any way their goals will be achieved without violence and societal collapse.

The Norwegian commitment to respond to these horrific attacks by reaffirming democratic and multicultural principals is admirable in the extreme. Hopefully some small good will be able to come out of this, and people around the world will become more aware of these dangerous fringe groups. I believe that they pose a much greater and much less acknowledged terror threat than Islamists. Governments have a duty to take the prevention of future atrocities more seriously than they are currently doing.

 

RIZ

4:46 AM ET

July 25, 2011

touche'

@PECHORN.....hats off to ur analysis...i loved the part: "we're going to see more violence from these groups in the future, they're becoming increasingly desperate as they see societies and attitudes changing in ways inimical to their hateful beliefs."....not only a bang-on-target prognosis of Christain far right or the born-again Western Fascists....it applies the same way to the myopic Religio-Fascist agenda of Taliban/Al-Qaeda and their covert yet powerful sympathizers in the state and society...!!!....in fact what pains me more is that it does not stop here, same is the case with many other states in varying degrees....take India for example where an elected government (Right Wing Hindu Chief Minister -Narendra Modi) for criminal connivance-cum-siding with the anti-Muslim riots in the Indian state of Gujrat in 2002...and countless others can be cited. same goes true for Israel as well...the good thing that one sees in all this is that the majority of the populace of the places cited above remains on the saner side of the fence....its only the tiny segments that are bitten by the bug of born-again Fascism, fundamentalism and the religious bigotry...!!!

 

ARAVAY

10:55 AM ET

July 25, 2011

give me a break

"I believe that they pose a much greater and much less acknowledged terror threat than Islamists."

Except for the fact that these fanatical european "lone-wolves" have no government backing them, funding them, supplying them, etc.

Compare that with Islamic fundamentalists who are funded, sheltered, and operated by the Pakistani ISI, Saudi Royals, the Taliban, Sudan, Syria, global fundraising infrastructures through muslim "charities," and worst of all, the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 

MAVKY

9:11 AM ET

July 24, 2011

Nothing New

There is *nothing new* about this.

In 1973, a weapons manual called The Road Back, by "Macaba," began circulating among white supremacist groups. This manual has a Templar cross on the cover and a section called "The Right to Revolution." It has extensive instructions on how "heroes" can form a guerrilla group, handle weapons, and make explosives. It has this message scrawled on the front: "A plan for the restoration of Freedom when our Country has been taken over by its enemies." It imagines the enemy:

"Political prostitutes grip tight the reins of government, and traitors plunder their treasuries and empty them into the coffers of the enemy. Evil men sit in high places and degenerates do their bidding. How more of this sickness can men of honor endure before they hurl this scum into oblivion?"

Ann Larabee

 

FRENZEL

10:20 AM ET

July 24, 2011

What a wack job

Living in the US, sometimes I forget that we're not the only country that deals with terrorism. Does this guy think he's Hitler or something? We had an incident around Lake Conroe a few weeks back where there was a bomb threat but nothing became of it. There are definitely plenty of wack jobs out there.

 

SKRISH61

11:15 AM ET

July 24, 2011

Re What a wack job

Frenzel, you have highlighted the problem with most of US policy towards the rest of the world - the insularity, exceptionalism, ignorance and arrogance that characterises US attitudes. Even in those you think should know better for being supposedly educated.

For the record, the worst victim of terrorism in the world in the past three decades has been South Asia, most of it funded by Muslim fundamentalists, and executed largely by them, with the connivance if not the active support of the US.

What the US has experienced, horrific as 9/11 may have been, is relatively minor.

The sooner more people in the US learn and appreciate this the better.

 

SETH EDENBAUM

12:01 PM ET

July 24, 2011

A Christian Zionist

"Were the majority of the German and European Jews disloyal? Yes, at least the so called liberal Jews, similar to the liberal Jews today that oppose nationalism/Zionism and support multiculturalism. Jews that support multiculturalism today are as much of a threat to Israel and Zionism (Israeli nationalism) as they are to us. So let us fight together with Israel, with our Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural Marxists/multiculturalists….So, are the current Jews in Europe and US disloyal? The multiculturalist (nation-wrecking) Jews ARE, while the conservative Jews ARE NOT. Aprox. 75% of European/US Jews support multiculturalism while aprox. 50% of Israeli Jews does the same. This shows very clearly that we must embrace the remaining loyal Jews as brothers rather than repeating the mistake of the NSDAP. Whenever I discuss the Middle East issue with a national socialist he presents the anti-Israeli and pro-Palestine argument. He always seem unaware of the fact that his propaganda is hurting Israeli nationalists (who want to deport the Muslims from Israel) and that he is in fact helping the Israeli cultural Marxists/multiculturalists with his argumentation."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4090800,00.html
BERLIN - Deputy Minister Ayoob Kara met with Swedish-German millionaire Patrik Brinkmann who has ties with German neo-Nazi groups in Berlin over the weekend, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.

Brinkmann, who is trying to establish a far-right anti-Islamic party in Germany claims he is not an anti-Semite, however his previous close contacts with the German neo-Nazi party (NPD) and his past membership in another neo-Nazi party raise questions regarding his ideology

 

BOOKFISHER

4:16 PM ET

July 24, 2011

Blody hell this debate went out of whack

How come there is always some nuttjob who is drag in antisemitic vievs in this , you say you are antizionist . but as pro-palestinian, who sometimes thinks the state Israel was a mistake, I say you are nuts.
You dont dislike the idea of a state of Israel , you dont like jews.
And now because a evil man from the same far out wing as you murders dozens of young idealist, whos only crime was to belive in better world, you try to pin it on Jews, Israel and its defenders.

The Irony is that the only reason extreme right are so big fans of Israel is that Israel have failed to deliver in the peace process, when Israel delivers and is rewarded with peace , you sick fucks will be one big happy family again.

Seriously this page shold inform that IP addresses will be turned over to FBI and Europol

With best regard a Danish Socialdemocrat

 

MARTEILLE

12:31 AM ET

July 25, 2011

This does not surprise me

We have a lot of dumbfuks here apparently...

 

ARAVAY

11:00 AM ET

July 25, 2011

MMCMILLAN is antisemitic Trash

who posts here continuously. This guy is a rabid Jew-hater and needs to be banned from the forum.

 

ARAVAY

11:01 AM ET

July 25, 2011

one more thing

everything MMCMILLAN mentions is a "zionist plot." The reason his trash wasn't picked up today was because of those ravenous snake Zionists out to get him.

 

AHMEDWALID

4:48 PM ET

July 25, 2011

GO find a nice hole and rot in it MMCMILLAN

You antisemitic pig. What a piece of trash. Where did your parent's raise you? a hitler youth camp? Or just a normal garbage dump?

 

K. RECHTSTEIN

10:49 PM ET

July 24, 2011

What did the Oslo Killer Want?

Until the 70's the Scandinavian countries were a paradise on earth, an example of how citizens can live in peace, care for each other and even show concern and stretch their hands out to help developing countries to acquire basic skills that neither GB nor France, their former colonizators, bothered to give them.

The Scandinavian model of society was very successful and every thing started to change with the assassination of OLOF PALME, the social-democratic PM.

Why did that happen? It did because the Zion Talmudic Mafia Dons, who already were set on implementing their agenda of turning Europe and Scandinavia against the Muslim countries and using the US military might to achieve the Greater Israel did not want the Scandinavian way of living and MINDSET to spread to Europe and impede their plans.

A lone and coward assassin terminated the life of Olof Palme.

From that date the Zios have been working hard via proxies and directly in order to infiltrate the Scandinavian Institutions, involve them through the NATO membership in wars that has NOTHING to do with Scandinavia and steer up social unrest opposing a minority of ethnic Scandinavian to the foreigners who live in Sweden-Norway-Denmark and Finland.

www.document.no acknowledge that Anders Behring Breivik was present and participated actively with concrete propositions at the conference offered by the First Secretary of Israel's Embassy in Oslo in the winter of 2009-2010.

The MOSSAD is indeed very active in Norway-Sweden-Denmark and its strategy is doing what it can to provoke clashes between ethnic Scandinavians and the Muslim immigrant population. Through the Israeli Embassy and proxy support groups for the "Jewish People who suffered so much in the hand of the Nazis", its agents manage to get in contact with far right groups and turn them into Anders Behrings, using their psychological profile and tricks to coach them into the direction they want them to go.

 

ARAVAY

11:02 AM ET

July 25, 2011

LOL you're nuts!

congratulations, you win conspiracy theorist of the year. You didn't get antisemite of the year. That goes to MMCMILLAN, above.

 

AHMEDWALID

4:49 PM ET

July 25, 2011

haha, a mossad plot!

wow, you are totally stupid.

 

JOHN MILTON XIV

7:39 AM ET

July 25, 2011

The Cunning of Reason

The laurels of Victory are awarded to the Nordic Socialist Model.

Norway always wins the World Cup on the Happiness Index.

Far too much to hope that now that the World's attention is turned (however briefly) on what works there and why, they may turn their eyes away from the models provided by the terminal USA and the tyrannical China??

 

SHIVAM BENIWAL

11:19 AM ET

July 25, 2011

Norway terror attack

It seems that Europe
is going back to 1648 AD (The war of 30
years ) or It 's the beginning of the
'Clash of civilization' as said by late
Samuel P . Huntigton .

 

ALFREDO FERRARI

1:24 PM ET

July 25, 2011

Norway terror attack

Tragedy In Norway July 2011
http://www.peterjamesx.com/Docs%202011/Tragedy%20In%20Norway.htm

 

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10:48 PM ET

July 25, 2011

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4:39 PM ET

August 22, 2011

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NIGHTWATCHONLINE

12:31 PM ET

August 4, 2011

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TINATINKA

8:08 PM ET

August 14, 2011

Norway killer

I can not believe that in modern society these things still happen.Appears from somewhere some psychopath with a gun and kills and blackmails.This is really terrible.food poisoning signs

 

LAKITA MERKLE

5:52 AM ET

August 16, 2011

GOOD!

The person posing in a frogman suit was a twisted loser on the order of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Like another terrorist, “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski, he stewed in a paranoid vision of evildoers ascendant.Most weirdly, Breivik professed to hate radical Islam while diving into the same sort of self-aggrandizing fantasy as the criminals of 9/11, He fancied himself founder of a new Knights Templar, a military order started around 900 years ago to protect Christian pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land from Arab attack,Osama bin Laden's followers sought to restore the lost glory of al-Andalus, 800 years of Muslim rule in Spain that ended five centuries ago.These people don't know where the video game ends and real life begins, Put them in the same room, and lock the door.What Breivik is not is a “right-winger” in any conventional sense of the term, Calling this crackpot such puts him on a political spectrum occupied by people arguing about real things in the current century, Even “right-wing extremist” is pushing it. Once you place the likes of kacey jordan in the political debate, you distort the views of others concerned with similar-sounding issues,

 

AXELBROOK

5:57 AM ET

August 19, 2011

For one thing "land-locked"

For one thing "land-locked" means no water boundaries. Not to mention your weak reference to a somewhat justifiable statement regarding the Governor of a State that borders another Country. RIO Keep talking, you are showing your ignorance!.

 

SHANDA HABERSHAM

9:18 PM ET

August 21, 2011

He is a more extreme example of a growing right-wing trend

Usually, one tends to think of this problem as one that leads to Muslim attacks on non-Muslim targets - the rocks tossed at homosexuals in Amsterdam; the assassination attempts on Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist whose drawings of Mohammed in 2006 continue to be a source of controversy and rage; the death threats against teachers in France and Holland and elsewhere when they try to teach their students about the Holocaust. But there are two sides to this coin, as any, and we’ve just seen the other on. At this writing, the sole suspect in custody is 32-year-old Anders sasha grey Breivik, who for the past several years has kept up running commentary on the site www.document.no (Google translation posted here ), a right-wing blog where he has targeted liberals, Muslims, and multiculturalism (“an anti-European ideology of hate that aims to destroy European culture, , and Christianity”). Yet nothing in these writings greatly distinguishes him from other followers of such blogs: he frequently praises a writer who goes by the name “Fjordman” and who is well known on the conservative, largely anti-Islam circuit; and he often cites posts from Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugged and other sites popular not only among anti-Islam activists, but among even more moderate types concerned about the rise of radical Islam in the West.

 

PETER MURRAY

3:41 AM ET

August 22, 2011

2083

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YANA

5:13 AM ET

August 22, 2011

WOW

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