7 people died when a car bomb exploded right outside the government office building yesterday in Oslo, and 85 young people died when a man dressed as a police opened fire on a youth summer camp on the island of Otuya. He had an automatic weapon. A man named Anders Behring Breivik has been arrested.
Surprisingly, it doesn’t appear to be a case of islamic terrorism: Breivik is a conservative christian (at least that’s what he calls himself), freemason and holds nationalistic views. Whether he was involved in the bombing as well as the shootings we don’t know yet. He may not have been alone.
John Gustavsson
Economics and European Analyst at Caffeinated Thoughts
John Gustavsson is our Economic and European analyst. John holds a MSc in Behavioral economics from the University of Nottingham and is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He was born in 1991 in Sweden and grew up in Örnsköldsvik, a city in one of the most left-winged regions in one of the most left-winged countries of the world. Despite - or maybe because of - having been raised in this environment, John grew up to become a fiscal, social and foreign policy conservative. He became interested in politics at the young age of 10 and has followed American politics since 2004. Here at Caffeinated Thoughts John provides commentary on a wide range of economic and European issues
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