At this point, I don't think we know whether he had fake ID apart from the uniform or how good it was - the mere fact that he had more than one fully functional fertiliser bomb and a plan indicates he'd done his homework - but yeah, it seems likely that it was a contributing factor.
Though it would be hard to blame the folks at the boat dock if the guy had good ID. For one thing, the initial bomb was in the city centre, targeting a government office - to switch immediately thereafter to targeting teenagers twenty miles away with guns is a paradigm shift that you wouldn't necessarily expect. It doesn't fit the profile of politically-oriented terrorism - which rather leads one to suspect that his real target was Utoeya, and the city bomb a diversion.
(But if he didn't have ID apart from the uniform, well, that's another thing.)
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Date: 2011-07-23 05:56 pm (UTC)Though it would be hard to blame the folks at the boat dock if the guy had good ID. For one thing, the initial bomb was in the city centre, targeting a government office - to switch immediately thereafter to targeting teenagers twenty miles away with guns is a paradigm shift that you wouldn't necessarily expect. It doesn't fit the profile of politically-oriented terrorism - which rather leads one to suspect that his real target was Utoeya, and the city bomb a diversion.
(But if he didn't have ID apart from the uniform, well, that's another thing.)