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More Disturbing News About Anders Behring Breivik . . .

James Joyner · Tuesday, July 26, 2011 · 4 comments

Several radio reports today, based on readings of the “manifesto” of Anders Behring Breivik, teased the story with some variation of “We have learned disturbing new things about the Norway terrorist.”

I’m hard pressed to even conjure something that I could learn about a man who engaged in a calculated, drawn out killing spree in which he murdered 68 children at point blank range while looking at their faces. What, he doesn’t like puppies?

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Comments

John Peabody says:

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 16:35

Maybe he attended a Lutheran church (see Bachmann, Michelle).
Doug Mataconis says:

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 16:44

I hear he once refused to buy Girl Scout Cookies from the little neighborhood girl
Franklin says:

Tuesday, 26 July 2011 at 20:37

I’d try a joke but I’m still a bit sick to my stomach thinking about him.
Jay Tea says:

Wednesday, 27 July 2011 at 10:26

Well, let’s see… he was an environmentalist, anti-US-style capitalism, anti-globalist, anti-Rupert Murdoch, and believed in a Neitzschean version of “Christianity” that the religious right would find an abomination. I think that would be tremendously disturbing to those who want to tar the right with his deeds.

J.