Norwegian police cars sit in front of the farm of Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in the twin terror attacks that killed 76 people in Oslo and on Utoya island, in Asta, central Norway, July 28, 2011
Manifesto posted online
Anders Behring Breivik has admitted to carrying out a deadly bomb attack in downtown Oslo and shooting dead dozens more on a nearby island.
Before carrying out the attack on July 22, Breivik appears to have posted a 1500-page 'manifesto' online. Political experts say that the views expressed are consistent with many on the extreme right. One of his main grievances appears to be against Muslim immigration to Europe.
Police in Norway say they believe he acted alone although they are investigating his claim to have links with other cells.
Security threat
Nigel Inkster is Director of Transnational Threats and Political Risk at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Britain.
He says Islamic terrorism is the most serious threat to European security and is more difficult to trace. However, he notes that right wing extremists are relatively easy to track. For that reason, he says, at least in Britain, it's a job for the police rather than the security forces.
"These groups are not that difficult a security challenge, they are relatively easy to infiltrate and do not require the sophisticated, high end techniques that the security service would typically deploy so I think that's fair enough," Inkster said.
He says in Britain the threat posed by the extreme right normally does not come in the form of a major terror attack.
"I think most of the violence that we have seen from extreme right wing groups has been of a more, if you will, casual, street variety targeted against demonstrations by immigrant groups or simple attacks on immigrants," Inkster added.
Some British mosques say they are boosting their security following the attack in Norway.
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