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The terrorist who opened fire on a New Zealand mosque full of worshippers sent his online manifesto to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and 70 others minutes before he begun his attack.

Australian man Brenton Tarrant, 28, published 'The Great Replacement' the morning before opening fire at two mosques in Christchurch, on New Zealand's south island.
Tarrant live streamed his attack on the Al Noor mosque on Facebook.

He sent the manifesto to about 70 recipients, including National leader Simon Bridges and Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard, the NZ Herald reported.

The other recipients who received the shocking document were media organisations, both in New Zealand and international.

A spokesman from the Prime Minister's Office said the 'manifesto' was sent to an email account managed by Ms Ardern's office, not her personal account.
The worker in the office that opened the email immediately sent it to Parliamentary security who referred it to police.
'It does not set out what he was about to do. It was written as if it had occurred, to explain what obviously was about to play out,' the spokesman said.

The horrific attack killed 50 people and left more than 40 in hospital suffering from gunshot wounds.

Four arrests were made, including Tarrant, two men and a woman. Bombs attached to a pair of cars owned by the suspects were disarmed.

The chilling 73-page manifesto details his twisted grievances, why he picked the mosques in Christchurch and how he was inspired by Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 in 2011.


Self-confessed terrorist Tarrant faced a New Zealand court on Saturday charged with murder.

'I have read the writings of Dylan Roof and many others, but only really took true inspiration from Knight Justiciar Breivik,' he wrote.
Tarrant's reference to Breivik as a 'Knight' relates to the Norwegian's support for the Knights Templar - an extremist Christian group of specialist fighters from the 12th century.

Tarrant also claimed he had been inspired to carry out the attacks as 'revenge' for a terror attack in Sweden that claimed a young girl among its victims.

'There was a period of time two years prior to the attack that dramatically changed my views. The period of time was from April 2017 to May 2017,' he wrote.
In the manifesto Tarrant said he initially planned to target a mosque in Dunedin, but changed to the Al Noor and Masjid Mosques because they had 'far more invaders'.


Explaining his plans the massacre, the shooter wrote that: 'To most of all show the invaders that our lands will never be their lands, our homelands are our own and that, as long as a white man still lives, they will NEVER conquer our lands and they will never replace our people.
'By the definition, then yes. It is a terrorist attack. But I believe it is a partisan action against an occupying force.'

He also revealed he did not initially plan to carry out the attack in New Zealand at all.

'I only arrived in New Zealand to live temporarily while I planned and trained, but I soon found out that New Zealand was as target rich of an environment as anywhere else in the West,' Tarrant wrote.

'Secondly an attack in New Zealand would bring to attention the truth of the assault on our civilisation.'

He also claimed to be inspired by Candace Owens, an outspoken right-wing commentator in the US.
'The person that has influenced me above all was Candace Owens, each time she spoke I was stunned by her insights.'

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