“When in doubt, go with Occam’s Razor.... real life is more complicated than that.”
This may turn out to be a right wing loon attack exactly as you suggest.
My 12 point case above need more evidence to prove an Islamic connection, like did he go to Pakistan in the lasts years.
Guess the biggest cause of suspicion for me is how analogous the Norway attack is to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Reporter Jayna David argues persuasively that the OKC bombing was percieved as a right wing kook attack, but in fact had a connection to Islamic terror.
Makes me wonder if AQ is repeating a proven scenario. http://www.jaynadavis.com/highlights.html
Here is a relevant quote from Jayna Daivis page documenting how AQ sought an alliance with McVeigh:
“Islamic sleeper agents in the U. S. are actively enlisting non-Arabs, non-Muslims, and disaffected Americans of all ethnicities to carry out future operations. These homegrown militants are known throughout the intelligence community as “lily white” recruits.
Jayna is arguably the first journalist to publicly document this merging, unholy alliance between polar opposite extremists. Her book exclusively features a classified prior warning that prognosticated in the spring of 1995 that an “Iran-sponsored Islamic attack” would likely take place on U.S. soil, executed by “domestic” operatives.”http://www.jaynadavis.com/highlights.html