Norway Gunman Wanted War Against Islam and Marxists

Jakarta Globe. Oslo. The Norwegian man who was charged Saturday with a pair of attacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed manifesto outlining his preparations and calling for a Christian civil war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination, according to Norwegian and American officials familiar with the investigation. As stunned Norwegians grappled with the deadliest attack in the country since World War II, a portrait began to emerge of the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, 32. The police identified him as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.
''We are not sure whether he was alone or had help," a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. "What we know is that he is right wing and a Christian fundamentalist."
In the 1,500-page manifesto, posted on the Web hours before the attacks, Breivik recorded a day-by-day diary of months of planning for the attacks and claimed to be part of a small group that intends to "seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda."
He predicted a conflagration that would kill or injure more than 1 million "Marxists/multiculturalists" but added: "The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come."
The manifesto was signed Andrew Berwick, an Anglicized version of his name. A former US government official briefed on the case said investigators believed the manifesto was Breivik's work.
The manifesto, titled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence," claims to explain "what your government, the academia and the media are hiding from you" and warns against "appeasement and anti-European thinking."
Breivik was also believed to have posted a video Friday calling for Christian conservatives in Europe to rise up violently as a modern-day version of the Crusades-era Knights Templar to save Europe from Islamic totalitarianism. In its closing moments, the video depicts Breivik in military uniform, holding assault weapons. YouTube removed the video on Saturday.
Rarely has a plotter left so detailed an account of his activities. The document describes in detail his purchase of chemicals, his sometimes ham-handed experiments making explosives and his first successful test detonation of a bomb in a remote location on June 13.
He intersperses the account of bomb-making with details of his television-watching, including the Eurovision music contest and the U.S. police drama "The Shield."
The manifesto ends with a chilling signoff: "I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51."