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Focus on Islamists let other extremists go beyond radar

AFP, Stockholm
Security services in Norway and elsewhere in the region had recently shifted their focus to Islamist extremism, letting other forms of terror slip under the radar, experts said.
While there had been initial fears that Friday's twin attacks might have been an act of revenge for Norway's participation in the campaigns in Afghanistan and Libya, everything changed when it emerged the suspect was a native Norwegian.
Named by media as Anders Behring Breivik, the alleged killer has been described by police as a "fundamentalist Christian" whose political opinions leaned "to the right." He had also been a member of the populist right-wing Progress Party (FrP) and was a member of a Swedish neo-Nazi Internet forum.
For some, the suspect is an example of far-right extremism, which has got less attention while intelligence agen-
cies concentrated on radical Islam.
For others, such as Daniel Poohl of Sweden's Expo foundation, a leading group in monitoring far-right activity across Scandinavia, he is representative of a new kind of terrorism fuelled by anti-Muslim sentiment and fear from multiculturalism.
In a report published earlier this year, Norway's intelligence agency said that far-right extremists existed in Norway, but that they had "barely been active in recent years."
"However, the trend that saw an increased level of activity in 2010 is expected to continue in 2011," the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)'s annual threat assessment report read.
But the PST noted that "as in previ-
ous years, the far-right and far-left extremist communities will not represent a serious threat to Norwegian society in 2011."
"The lack of strong leadership limits the growth of these groups," it said.
Instead, it said it was "primarily" Islamist extremists "who could pose a direct threat to Norway in the year ahead."
Robert Oerell of Sweden's Exit foundation, which helps those who wish to leave nationalist, racist and Nazi-oriented groups and movements, said that the focus on Islamist radicals had favoured far-right extremists.
"ft justifies their perception that the Nordic people are under threat from Islamists," he told news agencyTT.
"As soon as I heard about Norway I thought this would be the far-right, so on that level it is not a surprise. I would not necessarily say it was brewing but we have seen a few trends pointing towards it," he toldAFP