Norway police end Utøya search as further 24 victims named

Officers call off search after finding body of final victim, while more anti-Muslim internet postings by Breivik discovered Police in Norway released the identities of another 24 people killed by Anders Behring Breivik as they ended their search for bodies in the waters surrounding the island where he shot 68 of his 76 victims. The youngest victim was Johannes Buø, 14. All but one were shot by Breivik on Utøya. The other died in the bomb attack in Oslo. Officers called off their search after finding the body of a young Georgian woman, Tamta Liparteliani, who had been at the youth camp on Utøya. The girl’s parents had travelled to Norway in the hope of finding her alive but it was announced her body was found on the bottom of the lake with gunshot wounds in her back. The police have named 41 of those killed and say more names will be released every day at 5pm as identities are confirmed. Details of the latest victims emerged as anti-fascist organisation Searchlight said it had found more postings on anti-muslim and far-right forums thought to be from Breivik stretching back to 2008. In one, on the global far-right forum Stormfront, the author said it was “ironic” that “the only three racially pure countries in the world are Japan, Korea and Taiwan”. He went on to give a breakdown on the racial and ethnic make up of several European countries, a piece of work he says took “25 hours to create/research”. In another post he recommends a series of groups he hoped could deal with “60 MILLION Muslims in western and Eastern Europe” and claimed Britain or Denmark would be the first western countries to face “civil war due to Muslim immigration”. Complaining that the right wing in Europe and the US was “fractured”, Breivik wrote about how he hoped the various groups “can try and reach a consensus regarding the issue”, which he saw as the “Islamification of Europe/US”. He wanted these united groups to “overthrow governments which support multiculturalism”. The author discusses writing a book similar to the manifesto Breivik published online hours before the attack, which was titled 2083: A European Declaration of Independence. Many of the posts appear virtually unchanged in Breivik’s “manifesto” and the author uses the online identity “year2183″. Nick Lowles from Searchlight said: “In the modern internet age people are less likely to join organisations but instead flit between groups, causes and campaigns with a much looser affiliation. This is what Breivik appears to have done. It is clear he read, digested and disseminated information on a wide range of neo-Nazi, nationalist and anti-Muslim forums. Breivik went down a terrorist path but he shared a common ideology and hatred with the likes of the BNP and EDL.” Breivik sent the document to 1003 email addresses less than an hour and half before he launched his attack with a huge bomb blast in Oslo. The Guardian has obtained the list of recipients, which includes members of the British National party and the English Defence League. There is no evidence that any of those who received the email knew Breivik or had had any prior contact with him. In Norway detectives said they would interview Breivik again on Friday, but did not indicate what information they would be seeking from him. Breivik has confessed to the killings but claimed they were justified as part of a “war” and has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. Police have interviewed him once, in a seven-hour session the day after the attacks. A police lawyer, Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby, said Breivik, who is in solitary confinement, had no contact with the outside world apart from meetings with his lawyer and the police. Norway was “getting back to normality” and it was time to end restrictions on security, he added. He said there had been a number of bomb threats since the attacks but described them as “unspecific”, adding it was “normal” some people would seek to create more fear after such a tragedy. A senior EU counterterrorism official also said on Thursday there was a risk “somebody may actually try to mount a similar attack as a copycat attack”. Norway Anders Behring Breivik The far right Europe Matthew Taylor guardian.co.uk

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