A gunman killed at least 80 people at a youth camp of
Norwegian police have detained a 32-year-old Norwegian man, named by local media as Anders Behring Breivik, in connection with both attacks. There were reports of his links with right-wing extremism
WILL MCCANTS, FORMER
"We've never seen anything like this. A right-wing extremist bombs the nerve-center of his home nation and then massacres dozens of his fellow citizens miles away."
"I will be shocked it he pulled it off alone. But if he did, it not only raises concerns about the rise of right-wing violence in
JAKUB GODZIMIRSKI, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW AT NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Godzimirski said the attacks were more likely the work of a right-winger than Islamist militants.
"It would be very odd for Islamists to have a local political angle. The attack on the Labor youth meeting suggests it's something else. If Islamists wanted to attack, they could have set off a bomb in a nearby shopping mall rather than a remote island.
"This attack has more in common with the
JONATHAN PARIS, INTERNATIONAL Center FOR THE STUDY OF RADICALISATION, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON
"We do know that al Qaeda would have a motive to do this...but beyond that we don't have any evidence at this time that there's a definite link to al Qaeda," he told
SAJJAN GOHEL, ASIA-PACIFIC FOUNDATION
"What was the ideological motivation, was it local or trans-national? Norwegian nationals have traveled abroad for terrorist training and in the past there have been linkages to
"An attack in
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