Anders Breivik Inspires Christopher Paul Hasson, Coast Guard Officer Charged with Terrorist Plot

They also uncovered a locked briefcase containing over 30 bottles of what appeared to be human growth hormone, a drug used by athletes and bodybuilders who believe that it increases muscle mass and increases the speed.

It was not on doctor's orders that Christopher Paul Hasson collected the supplements, or the opioid tablets also seized by the authorities. Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people, many of them children, in a 1,500-page manifesto in a tidal wave bombed by a gun in 2011, that he called it "wise". martyrdom operation. "

The illusory pursuit of a male ideal is only one of the many ways in which Breivik, who was sentenced to 21 years in prison in Norway at the end of his trial in 2012, was a role model. for Hasson, a recognized white nationalist who wrote that he was "dreaming of a way to kill almost every person on the earth." The 49-year-old Silver Spring resident targeted CNN and MSNBC celebrities and politicians, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) And Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Que. Authorities have called it "poca warren", borrowing the epithet of President Trump from the legislator. Hasson was arrested on Friday for indictment of weapons and drugs.

[‘I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on earth’: A self-proclaimed white nationalist planned a mass terrorist attack, the government says]

The inspiration he draws from Breivik, 40 years, illuminates the exchange of extremist ideas linking seemingly lonely actors who see themselves as martyrs of the "Western civilization" besieged, in their rough analysis, by immigrants and opinion leaders favoring multiculturalism. The European supposedly valued by the American extremist had quoted American figures such as Robert Spencer, director of the Jihad Watch website, and had inspired his action on the 1995 Oklahoma City attack, whose authors are now heroes. for some of them far away The recycling of alarmist remarks shows how a nationalist anti-immigrant vision has become truly international, sometimes with fatal consequences.

The far-right Norwegian terrorist was on a political mission – a mission he hoped to embrace by others. A report released Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, indicating that the number of hate groups operating in the United States had reached a record in 2018, suggests that its call had not gone unanswered.

One afternoon in July, eight years ago, Breivik blew up about 2,000 pounds of explosives in front of a 17-story government building in Oslo, killing eight people. He then traveled 30 km to a youth summer camp organized by the Norwegian Labor Party, causing 69 more deaths, mostly teenagers. It was the deadliest attack in Norway since the Second World War, the deadliest gun among an individual in the world, and the deadliest far-right attack in Europe since the bombing of the road. Italian iron in Bologna in 1980.

Mass shooting was considered unique in its time for converting a right-wing hate ideology into a civilizational crusade. Breivik wanted to purify the West of Muslims, but he was also inspired by al-Qaeda, the Islamic terrorist network, which also promoted a hypermasculine view of the adventure and sacrifice of Muslims. self, "the most successful militant group in the world. "

In 2012, a year after the Breivik massacre, the Czech police arrested a man who stocked weapons, ammunition and police uniforms – and used the name of the Norwegian killer online. Three months later, a Polish admirer of Breivik was arrested for allegedly plotting to detonate a bomb in front of the parliament building in Warsaw. In Britain, four people were arrested between January 2013 and June 2015 for planning to carry out strikes inspired by Breivik. In 2016, an 18-year-old gunman killed nine people in Munich on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the attacks in Norway. The gunman, who was apparently seeking revenge for being harassed by people of "Turkish and Arab" descent, had recently changed his profile picture on social media to replace that of Breivik.

Breivik's violence has not only inspired conspiracies of similar ideological zeal. His example also appeared to influence other types of mass killings, such as shootings in schools. Law enforcement officials told NBC News that Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old gunner at the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, wanted to outdo Breivik. Lanza, who committed suicide when police arrived at Sandy Hook Elementary School, apparently kept newspaper clippings about the Breivik massacre.

The Norwegian mass murderer, whose actions were recreated on the big screen in the "July 22" film of 2018, did not fail to apologize and saluted the Nazis in his court appearances.

Breivik's manifesto, entitled "2083: A Declaration of European Independence", was intended as a practical handbook for "patriots" who wanted to join him in his crusade against virtually all the demons of the right-wing movement. Among his targets are "globalism" and feminism, as well as cultural Marxism, a specter invoked to assert that leftists have abandoned their quest for class warfare in favor of an attack on cultural values. "They hate Europe and America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white men and hate rationality," wrote Breivik.

An hour and a half before embarking on its rampage in 2011, Breivik e-mailed the document to about 1,000 recipients. He added that his main reason for the attack was to promote his manifesto.

He had the desired effect.

In a document filed Tuesday in court, prosecutors explained how the Coast Guard lieutenant had studied Breivik's delusional and hate speech. As of 2017, he routinely reviewed the manifest, which led to the websites of firearms announcements and tactical equipment.

He identified the targets according to Breivik's classification system, which separated the "Marxist / multicultural cultural traitors" into three categories. Category A included high-profile targets that could be concentrated in a given location and thus vulnerable to one hit.

"Of course, focus on people who do not have an armed bodyguard," Breivik wrote. Hasson went on to search the Web to find out if senators enjoyed protection from the secret services and whether Supreme Court justices had bodyguards. After watching a headline describing the judgment of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough that the president was "the worst of all time," the Coast Guard lieutenant and former Marine were looking for information about the location of shooting of his show.

Taking into account Breivik's warning that the attacks would be physically grueling, Hasson has stockpiled performance-enhancing drugs and opioid analgesics. As of October 2016, the Maryland resident was getting tramadol pills by way of delivery "from an individual likely to be located in Mexico," according to the court record. He also appeared to have purchased synthetic urine to prepare for drug testing at work, prosecutors said.

It was unclear whether the authorities knew when he planned to launch his "targeted violence" campaign or whether he even had a detailed plan.

The rule book that he observed, however, recommended a six-week steroid cycle as part of the preparations for an attack. Earlier this year, Hasson searched for the word "steroids" in the 1,500-page manifesto, which led him to a diary of the Norwegian terrorist in which he mentioned the possibility of acquiring pills that would turn him into an army of one man for 2 hours. "

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