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- Police Monday named the chemistry student they suspect of carrying out Finland's deadliest bomb attack since World War II and said he used an Internet chat room that exchanged tips on home-made explosives.
They said they were checking chat rooms to try to find why Petri Gerdt, a shy 19-year-old student from a middle-class Helsinki suburb, set off a bomb in a busy shopping center, killing himself and six other people and injuring about 80.
Gerdt, the only suspect in the bombing, used the alias RC in a Finnish Internet chat room called "Forum for home chemistry" for people interested in explosives, National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Inspector Rabbe von Hertzen told Reuters.
"RC is Gerdt. It is the name he used," von Hertzen said.
The authorities have shut down the chat room, which Finnish media said was a popular forum for discussing do-it-yourself bombs-making.
"RC knew a lot about chemistry and he was an expert at explosives," the chat room host, who was not named, told Finnish national radio news YLE. The home-made bomb, weighing up to 6.6 pounds and packed with metal shards, went off Friday evening in a crowded shopping mall in Vantaa, the Helsinki suburb where Gerdt lived with his parents and attended a local technical college.
....Contributions to the chemistry chat room by RC gave no clear clues to a planned bomb attack.
"I have not taken part in any larger accidents, but once I dreamt that a police car drove to the site of the detonation, but luckily I was already floating to other places," RC wrote. "In my next dream I was in the deep forest." In the same message RC also quoted lyrics from dead rapper Tupac Shakur's song "Hail Mary," saying: "I ain't a killer but don't push me ... revenge is like the sweetest joy."
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