Reuters AlertNet - Finnish chemistry student talked of bomb for year

From everything I read, the Helsinki bombing probably wasn't terrorism in the sense of "violence for a political motive". The bomber appears to have more in common with the occasional idiot teenager (he was 19) we get here who decides to kill people because he thinks it might be cool, or because he's a "shy and quiet boy" who gets picked on. This is more Columbine than Oklahoma City. We may have been misled somewhat by the (apparently accidental) death of the bomber in the explosion into thinking this was meant as a "suicide bombing" of the Middle-Eastern type.