Suspect posted right-wing profile

OSLO, Norway - Norwegian police on Saturday described the main suspect in twin bomb and shooting attacks that left at least 91 dead as a Christian fundamentalist.

Norwegian media named him as Anders Behring Breivik, but police refused to confirm his identity.

On his Facebook profile, the blond suspect describes himself as "conservative," "Christian", single, and interested in hunting and games such as "World of Warcraft" and "Modern Warfare 2".

Norwegian news agency NTB said Breivik legally owned several firearms and belonged to a gun club. He ran an agricultural firm growing vegetables, an enterprise that could have helped him secure large amounts of fertilizer, a potential ingredient in bombs.

But he didn't belong to any known factions in Norway's small and splintered extreme right movement, and had no criminal record except for some minor offenses.

National police chief Sveinung Sponheim told public broadcaster NRK that the gunman's Internet postings "suggest that he has some political traits directed toward the right, and anti-Muslim views, but whether that was a motivation for the actual act remains to be seen."

"It's strange that he didn't kill himself, like the guys that have carried out school shootings," another police official said.

He said the attacks appeared to be the work of a lone madman, without links to any international terrorist networks. "He's obviously cold as ice." Police were interrogating the man at a police station in Oslo, saying the suspect is cooperating.

"He is clear on the point that he wants to explain himself," a police spokesman said.

Associated Press - Agence-France Presse

(China Daily 07/24/2011 page3)