<i>The Norway massacre</i>
On July 22, Norway experienced its worst single spasm of violence since World War II. In Oslo, a car bomb detonated near a set of prominent government buildings, killing eight people. The news was about to get far grislier: at a youth summer camp on the island of Utoya, a gunman had mowed down 69 people.
While some commentators leaped to pin the attacks on Islamist terrorists, authorities eventually found one culprit: Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian and far-right fanatic. He was later judged insane.
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