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15
. “McVeigh Remorseless about Bombing,” Associated Press, March 29, 2001,
http://www.rickross.com/reference/mcveigh/mcveigh6.html
(accessed May 2, 2011).

16
. Ibid.

17
. Ibid.

18
.
PrimeTime
.

19
. Timothy Stenovec, “Oslo Terror Attacks: A History of Terrorism in Norway,”
Huffington Post
, July 22, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/22/oslo-terrorism-history_n_907380.html
(accessed July 31, 2011).

20
. Michael Schwirtz, “Norway's Premier Vows to Keep an Open Society,”
New York Times
, July 27, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/europe/28norway.html
(accessed August 2, 2011).

21
. “Norway's Black Friday: A Chronology of the Twin Attacks,”
Spiegel Online International
, July 25, 2011,
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,776437,00.html
(accessed August 1, 2011).

22
. Ian MacDougall and Karl Ritter, “Norway Suspect Was Considering Other Targets,” Associated Press, July 30, 2011,
http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20110730_298_0_OSLONo914857
(accessed November 8, 2012).

23
. Karl Ritter, “Gunman's Background Puzzles Police in Norway,” Associated Press, July 23, 2011,
http://news.yahoo.com/gunmans-background-puzzles-police-norway-044701742.html
(accessed July 23, 2011).

24
. Chris Slack, “Anders Breivik ‘Was on Norwegian Secret Service Watchlist' after Buying Chemical Haul from Polish Retailer,”
Mail Online
,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2018646/Norway-shooting-Anders-Behring-Breivik-secret-service-watchlist.html
(accessed July 26, 2011).

25
. Ibid.

26
. Victoria Klesty and Gwladys Fouche, “Norway Mourns Victims of Anti-Islam ‘Crusader,'” Reuters, July 24, 2011,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/24/us-norway-idUSL6E7IN00C20110724
(accessed July 24, 2011).

27
. Ibid.

28
. Victoria Klesty and Gwladys Fouche, “Norway Suspect Deems Killings Atrocious but Needed,” Reuters, July 24, 2011
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/world/07/24/11/norway-suspect-deems-killings-atrocious-needed
(accessed July 24, 2011).

29
. MacDougall and Ritter, “Norway Suspect Was Considering Other Targets.”

30
. Bjoern Amland and Sarah DiLorenzo, “Suspect: Norway Attacks ‘Marketing' for Manifesto,” Associated Press, July 24, 2011,
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8268226
(accessed August 2, 2011).

31
. Michael Schwirtz and Matthew Saltmarsh, “Oslo Suspect Cultivated Parallel Life to Disguise ‘Martyrdom Operation,'”
New York Times
, July 24, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/world/europe/25breivik.html
(accessed July 26, 2011).

32
. “As Horrors Emerge, Norway Charges Christian Extremist,”
New York Times
, July 24, 2011.

33
. Balazs Koranyi and Walter Gibbs, “Norway Killer Picked Victims Who Had ‘Leftist' Look,” Reuters,
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/23/uk-norway-attacks-trial-idUKBRE83M0GT20120423
(accessed April 24, 2012).

34
. Scott Stewart, “Norway: Lessons from a Successful Lone Wolf Attacker,” Stratfor Global Intelligence, July 28, 2011,
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110727-norway-lessons-successful-lone-wolf-attacker
(accessed August 2, 2011).

35
. Monte Kuligowski, “Anders Breivik: A Teachable Moment on Fundamentalism,”
American Thinker
, August 2, 2011,
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/anders_breivik_a_teachable_moment_on_fundamentalism.html
(accessed August 2, 2011).

36
. Scott Shane, “Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.,”
New York Times
, July 24, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/25/us/25debate.html?pagewanted=all
(accessed July 28, 2011).

37
. Ibid.

38
. Nicholas Kulish, “Shift in Europe Seen in Debate on Immigrants,”
New York Times
, July 27, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/world/europe/28europe.html
(accessed August 1, 2011).

39
. Ibid.

40
. Steven Erlanger and Scott Shane, “Oslo Suspect Wrote of Fear of Islam and Plan for War,”
New York Times
, July 23, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24oslo.html?pagewanted=all
(accessed August 2, 2011).

41
. Tad Tietze, “The Importance of the Anders Breivik Verdict Reaches beyond Norway,”
Guardian
, August 24, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/24/anders-breivik-verdict-norway1
(accessed November 9, 2012).

42
. Mark Townsend, “Breivik Verdict: Norwegian Extremist Declared Sane and Sentenced to 21 Years,”
Guardian
, August 24, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/24/breivik-verdict-sane-21-years
(accessed November 9, 2012). Breivik himself indicated shortly after his arrest that he was quite aware of what he had done. According to his lawyer, Breivik said that “he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary.” See Klesty and Fouche, “Norway Suspect Deems Killings Atrocious but Needed.”

43
. Laura Smith-Spark, “Norway Killer Anders Breivik Ruled Sane, Given 21-Year Prison Term,” CNN, August 24, 2012,
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/24/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html
(accessed November 9, 2012).

44
. Stewart, “Norway.”

45
. Gavin Hewitt, “Analysis,” BBC News, July 25, 2011,
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14280210
(accessed August 4, 2011).

46
. “Bin Laden Death Could Inspire Lone Wolf Attacks, Feds Say,” CBS News, May 10, 2011,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20061417-503543.html
(accessed May 10, 2011).

47
. James Dao, “Suspect Was ‘Mortified' about Deployment,”
New York Times
, November 5, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/us/06suspect.html
(accessed May 11, 2011).

48
. Chris McGreal, “Fort Hood Shootings: Nidal Hasan's Quiet Manner Hid Hostility to US Army,”
Guardian
,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/fort-hood-shootings-nidal-hasan
(accessed May 11, 2011).

49
. Daniel Pipes, “Maj. Hasan's Islamist Life,”
FrontPageMagazine.com
, November 20, 2009,
http://www.danielpipes.org/7763/major-nidal-hasan-islamist-life
(accessed May 11, 2011).

50
. Ibid.

51
. Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan M. Collins,
A Ticking Time Bomb: Counterterrorism Lessons from the U.S. Government's Failure to Prevent the Fort Hood Attack
, United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, February 3, 2011, p. 8.

52
. Pipes, “Maj. Hasan's Islamist Life.”

53
. Lieberman and Collins,
Ticking Time Bomb
, p. 9

54
. Del Quentin Wiber, “Von Brunn, White Supremacist Holocaust Museum Shooter, Dies,”
Washington Post
, January 7, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/06/AR2010010604095.html
(accessed May 14, 2011).

55
. “Extremism in America: Christian Identity,” Anti-Defamation League, 2005,
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Christian_Identity.asp?xpicked=4&item=Christian_ID
(accessed April 24, 2011).

56
. “James von Brunn: An ADL Backgrounder,” Anti-Defamation League, 2009,
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/von_brunn_background.htm?Multi_page_sections=sHeading_2
(accessed April 24, 2011).

57
. Ibid.

58
. David Stout, “Museum Gunman a Longtime Foe of Government,”
New York Times
, June 10, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/us/11shoot.html
(accessed May 14, 2011); “Law Center: Shooting Suspect Has ‘Long History' with Neo-Nazis,” CNN Justice, June 10, 2009,
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-06-10/justice/dc.museum.shooting.suspect_1_white-supremacist-jews-and-blacks-von-brunn?_s=PM:CRIME
(accessed May 14, 2011).

59
. “James von Brunn.”

60
. Neal Augenstein, “Separatist Describes Von Brunn as Depressed,” WTOP, June 11, 2009,
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1694189
(accessed May 15, 2011).

61
. “White Supremacists Celebrate Holocaust Museum Shooter Suspect as a Martyr and Hero,” Anti-Defamation League, June 11, 2009,
http://www.adl.org/main_Extremism/White-Supremacists-Celebrate-Shooter.htm
(accessed May 14, 2011).

62
. “Full Text of Eric Rudolph's Confession,” NPR, April 14, 2005,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4600480
(accessed May 17, 2011).

63
. Ibid.

64
. Ibid.

65
. Jeffrey Gettleman, “Ambivalence in the Besieged Town of ‘Run, Rudolph, Run,'”
New York Times
, June 1, 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/01/national/01SCEN.html
(accessed May 18, 2011).

66
. “Atlanta Olympic Bombing Suspect Arrested,” CNN, May 31, 2003,
http://articles.cnn.com/2003-05-31/us/rudolph.main_1_eric-robert-rudolph-george-nordmann-atlanta-olympic-bombing?_s=PM:US
(accessed May 19, 2011).

67
. “Full Text of Eric Rudolph's Confession.”

68
. Ibid.

69
. Shaila Dewan, “Olympics Bomber Apologizes and Is Sentenced to Life Terms,”
New York Times
, August 23, 2005,
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/national/23bomber.html?pagewanted=print
(accessed May 19, 2011).

70
. Henry Schuster with Charles Stone,
Hunting Eric Rudolph
(New York: Berkeley, 2005).

71
. Thad Anderson, “Notes on Eric Rudolph's Manifesto & Postscript,”
Blogcritics
,
http://blogcritics.org/politics/article/notes-on-eric-rudolphs-manifesto-postscript/
(accessed May 20, 2011).

72
. Blake Morrison, “Special Report: Eric Rudolph Writes Home,”
USA Today
, July 5, 2005,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-07-05-rudolph-cover-partone_x.htm
(accessed May 22, 2011).

73
. Peter Jan Margry, “The Murder of Pim Fortuyn and Collective Emotions: Hype, Hysteria, and Holiness in the Netherlands?”
Etnofoor:antropologisch tijdschrift
16 (2003): 106–31,
http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/meertensnet/file/edwinb/20050420/PF_webp_Engels_lang.pdf
(accessed May 25, 2011).

74
. Rod Dreher, “Murder in Holland,” National Review Online, May 7, 2002,
http://old.nationalreview.com/dreher/dreher050702.asp
(accessed May 24, 2011).

75
. “Crisis Talks over Dutch Killing,” BBC News
,
May 7, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1971943.stm
(accessed May 25, 2011).

76
. “Dutch Election to Go Ahead,” BBC News, May 7, 2002,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1972454.stm
(accessed May 25, 2011).

77
. Ibid.

78
. “The Political Legacy of Pim Fortuyn,”
Economist
, May 9, 2002,
http://www.economist.com/node/1125205
(accessed May 24, 2011); Dreher, “Murder in Holland.”

79
.
Lone-Wolf Terrorism
, COT, Instituut voor Veiligheids- en Crisismanagement, Final draft, June 7, 2007, Case Study for Work Package 3, p. 24,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/34968770/Lone-Wolf-Terrorism
(accessed June 10, 2011).

80
. Ibid., p. 35.

81
. Ibid., p. 44.

82
. Ibid., p. 46.

83
. Ibid., pp. 64–65.

84
. Ibid., pp. 24–25.

85
. Marlise Simons, “Dutch Court Sentences Killer of Politician to 18-Year Term,”
New York Times
, April 16, 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/16/world/dutch-court-sentences-killer-of-politician-to-18-year-term.html?ref=pimfortuyn
(accessed May 24, 2011).

86
.
Lone-Wolf Terrorism
, p. 25.

87
. “Fortuyn Gunman Spared Life Term,” BBC News, April 15, 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2948555.stm
(accessed May 24, 2011).

88
. Margry, “Murder of Pim Fortuyn.”

89
. Ibid.

90
.
Lone-Wolf Terrorism
, p. 79.

91
. Ibid., p. 80. The Netherlands experienced another assassination in November 2004 when controversial filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death in Amsterdam by a Dutch Moroccan man upset with Van Gogh's anti-Islamic views as well as with a recent film that portrayed violence against women in Islamic societies.

92
. Jeffrey D. Simon,
The Terrorist Trap: America's Experience with Terrorism
, 2nd ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001), pp. 49–51.

93
. Ibid., p. 49.

94
. Ibid., pp. 49–50.

95
. Ibid., p. 50.

96
. “What Kind of Man Is This?”
Rocky Mountain News
, November 16, 1955, p. 44.

97
. “Famous Cases and Criminals: Jack Gilbert Graham,” Federal Bureau of Investigation,
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/jack-gilbert-graham
(accessed May 31, 2011); “Graham Paying Back Check Forgery Fund,”
Denver Post
, November 14, 1955, p. 1.

98
. “Graham Paying Back Check Forgery Fund.”

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