TERRORIST PROFILING

Terrorist Profiling

Terrorist Profiling

Introduction

On July 22, Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb outside government buildings in Oslo that killed eight people. He then went to Utoyah Island, where the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labour party held its annual summer camp, and shot and killed sixty-nine others, plunging his country into deep shock and grief. The world had witnessed yet another terrorist attack. Before any facts emerged, some experts began to speculate that Muslim terrorists were responsible. They suggested that the killings been organized by cells of Al-Qaeda or other Islamic groups in Norway. Then the facts emerged. Before ...