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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norways-capital-shaken-by-bomb-blast/2011/07/22/gIQABA6dTI_story.html
Norway’s capital, Oslo, hit by deadly blast, shootings
July 22, 2011


BERLIN — A massive explosion rocked a government district in Norway’s capital Friday, killing seven people and injuring many more, and a shooter at a political convention on an island north of Oslo appeared to have inflicted more casualties, in incidents police are treating as connected, a police spokesman said.

“Central Oslo looks more like a battlefield,” said Runar Kvernen, a spokesman for the police directorate who was reached by telephone. “The headquarters of the Norwegian government is almost destroyed. It damaged a lot of a of buildings.”

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Kvernen said that police had shut down central Oslo and were urging people to “get home and stay inside. “We are not 100 percent sure what we are dealing with here,” he said.
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Kvernen also described “another very dramatic situation” on an island north of Oslo where a youth political conference of the ruling Labor Party was being held. Shots had been fired on the island, he said, and one gunman arrested.

Norway’s TV2 reported that at least two people had died on the island. Kvernen said that police did not believe that more assailants were currently on the island, but that he feared there would be many casualties.

“This is really bad,” he said. “The police have reason to believe that these incidents are connected.”

Norwegian news agency NTB said that former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland had been present at the conference, which was being held on Utoya Island, about 25 miles from the capital, and that Stoltenberg was scheduled to speak there tomorrow.
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Edit to add name to subject line MB

OSLO, Norway—A Norwegian who dressed as a police officer to gun down summer campers killed at least 80 people at an island retreat, horrified police said early Saturday. It took investigators several hours to begin the realize the full scope of Friday's massacre, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven and that police say was set off by the same suspect.

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http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/07/22/explosion_in_oslo_damages_buildings/?camp=misc:on:twit:rtbutton (http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2011/07/22/explosion_in_oslo_damages_buildings/?camp=misc:on:twit:rtbutton)

This is horrible.  They are saying the bomber/shooter is a right wing christian extremist by the name of Behring Breivik.

http://www.norwaynews.com/en/~view.php?72R7354MLd482ax285Ihi844SQ388bQZ76IEi353I7J8 (http://www.norwaynews.com/en/~view.php?72R7354MLd482ax285Ihi844SQ388bQZ76IEi353I7J8)


Also another group, affiliate with Al Qaeda is claiming responsibility.

http://www.tnr.com/article/world/92532/what-ansar-al-jihad-al-alami (http://www.tnr.com/article/world/92532/what-ansar-al-jihad-al-alami)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/23/norway.suspect/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 (http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/23/norway.suspect/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)
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Who is the suspect in the Norway attacks?
By the CNN Wire Staff
July 23, 2011 10:11 a.m. EDT

CNN) -- As Norway struggles to come to terms with its greatest loss of life in decades, all eyes are on the man charged in the explosion in central Oslo and the deadly shooting rampage at a youth camp.

While police have not officially named him, Norwegian television and newspaper reports have identified the suspect as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, of Norwegian origin.

A picture is emerging, gleaned from official sources and social media, of a right-wing Christian fundamentalist who may have had an issue with Norway's multi-cultural society.
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His Twitter

http://twitter.com/#!/AndersBBreivik (http://twitter.com/#!/AndersBBreivik)

http://dougsaunders.net/2011/07/political-thinking-anders-behring-breivik/ (http://dougsaunders.net/2011/07/political-thinking-anders-behring-breivik/)

There are some writings of Anders at the above link

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/death-toll-climbs-to-94-police-investigating-if-gunman-acted-alone/article2107535/
Death toll reaches 92 as Norwegian police search for more victims
July 23, 2011

Norwegian police searched for more victims and a possible second gunman on Saturday after a suspected right-wing zealot killed up to 85 people in a shooting spree and bomb attack that have traumatised a once-placid country.
The 32-year-old Norwegian named Anders Behring Breivik was arrested after Friday’s massacre of young people on a tiny forested holiday island that was hosting the annual summer camp for the youth wing of Norway’s ruling Labour party.

Mr. Breivik was also charged for the bombing of Oslo’s government district that killed seven people hours earlier.

If convicted on the terrorism charges, he would face a maximum of 21 years in jail, police said.

Mr. Breivik had belonged to an anti-immigration party and wrote blogs attacking multiculturalism and Islam, but police said he had been unknown to them and that his Internet activity traced so far included no calls for violence.
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A police SWAT team eventually arrived from Oslo, 30 kilometres away, to seize Mr. Breivik after nearly 90 minutes of firing, acting police chief Sveinung Sponheim told a news conference.

“We don’t know yet” if he acted alone, Mr. Sponheim said, adding that Mr. Breivik had surrendered immediately and had confessed.

Mr. Sponheim said 85 people were known to have died in the shooting and seven in the Oslo bomb blast. The overall death toll could reach 98 if some missing people proved to have died.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-norway-attacks-police,0,6277048.story
Norway attacks: Details emerge in Oslo bombing, camp shooting
July 23, 2011

The gunman who went on a shooting rampage at a youth camp on an island near Olso on Friday fired shots from two weapons for an hour and a half before surrendering to authorities, Norwegian police officials said Saturday.

It took police 40 minutes to get on the island after Anders Behring Breivik began shooting, Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said at a news conference. He told reporters that police officials had responded as "quickly as possible" but there were problems getting boats to transport officials to Utoya Island, where the Worker's Youth League, the youth wing of Norway's Labor Party, was attending an annual gathering.

The shootings came after a bomb explosion outside a government building in Oslo that police confirmed was caused by a car bomb. Sponheim said a witness saw the vehicle standing for a long time outside the building.

Of the 92 people confirmed dead in the twin attacks, 85 were shot and seven died as a result of the blast, Sponheim said. Police said that four or five were known to be missing in the attacks. Sponheim told reporters that body parts had been discovered in the buildings at the epicenter of the explosion.
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Police officials said that Breivik did not resist arrest when police caught up with him.
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He would not confirm whether authorities were searching for another assailant. It's also unclear whether Breivik was part of a larger network, Sponheim said.

Breivik, who is in custody, was speaking with police, Sponheim said. But he has retained a lawyer.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8657110/Norway-killings-suspect-beckoned-young-campers-to-him-before-shooting-them-dead.html
Norway killings: suspect beckoned young campers to him before shooting them dead
July 23, 2011

Anders Behring Breivik had walked into their camp on Utoya island after taking the short ferry across Tyrifjorden lake.

On the island 650 young people were attending a summer camp where they bathed, sat around campfires and learnt about politics.

Members of the Norwegian Labour party's youth wing, they had heard reports of a bomb explosion in the capital Oslo a couple of hours earlier they found the presence of a police officer reassuring.

But as they came towards him, he pulled a gun out of a bag and opened fire.

As his victims fell to the ground others ran away, screaming in terror. But he followed them, marching around the small wooded island of Utoya in southeast Norway, spraying them with bullets from his two guns and shouting: "You all must die."

Many of his victims were shot twice, according to eyewitnesses. One said the gunman was "laughing and cheering" during his killing spree which lasted for over an hour and left more than 80 people dead. Another said he "shot the cutest girl first".

The terrified campers, aged between 15 and 25, hid in buildings, under rocks and in trees. Some pretended to be dead while others dived into the sea and tried to swim to safety. The gunman went after them, shooting them in the water.
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"He kept shouting, 'It's safe to come out. You'll be saved...I'm a cop'," Mr Vereide said. "There were 30-40 of us standing together when he started shooting. but when he was done with us there were only only five or six of us left. We ran away and hid in a cave."
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A SWAT team that had been put on alert after the bombing in Oslo was dispatched to the island once the shooting began. But there will be questions about why it took so long to stop the gun spree.

It was unclear why the killing spree was allowed to continue for for 90 minutes despite mobile phone calls and Twitter messages from the 650 young people trapped on the island. It took a Swat team 40 minutes to get there.

“There were problems with transport to Utoya,” chief Sponheim said.

“It was difficult to get a hold of boats, but that problem was solved when the Swat team arrived.
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http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/norway-gunman-fired-for-1037897.html
Norway gunman fired for 1.5 hours on island
July 23, 2011

OSLO, Norway — Police arrived at an island massacre about 1.5 hours after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that.
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A SWAT team was dispatched to the island more than 50 minutes after people vacationing at a campground said they heard shooting across the lake, according to Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim. The drive to the lake took about 20 minutes, and once there, the team took another 20 minutes to find a boat.

Footage filmed from a helicopter that showed the gunman firing into the water added to the impression that police were slow to the scene. They chose to drive, Sponheim said, because their helicopter wasn't on standby.

"There were problems with transport to Utoya," where the youth-wing of Norway's left-leaning Labor Party was holding a retreat, Sponheim said. "It was difficult to get a hold of boats."

At least 85 people were killed on the island, but police said four or five people were still missing.

Divers have been searching the surrounding waters, and Sponheim said the missing may have drowned. Police earlier said there was still an unexploded device on the island, but it later turned out to be fake.
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This is an aerial view of Utoya Island, Norway, taken Thursday, July 21, 2011.  ::snipping2::

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903461104576464532207068092.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Norway Terror Suspect Released YouTube Video
July 23, 2011

OSLO -- A couple of hours before the devastating bomb blast in Norway's capital, terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik released a video on YouTube where he calls for conservatives to "embrace martyrdom."

TV2 said sources within Norway's police confirmed the video was uploaded by Mr. Breivik, who was charged Saturday for the bombing and shootings in Norway's capital and a nearby island Friday that left at least 92 people dead.
The video was uploaded by a user called AndrewBerwick on YouTube, hours before the bomb in the centre of Oslo went off, TV2 said. It calls for conservatives to "embrace martyrdom."

"[If] the multiculturalist elites of Europe continue to refuse to voluntarily transfer political and military power to our conservative revolutionary forces ... then [the second world war] is likely going to appear as a picnic compared to the coming carnage," the video stated in captions.
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The video has since been removed from YouTube.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/23/norwegian-terror-suspect-has-admitted-responsibility-for-attacks-lawyer-says/
Norwegian Terror Suspect Has 'Admitted Responsibility' For Attacks, Lawyer Says
July 23, 2011

OSLO –  The Norwegian man accused of launching twin terror attacks in Oslo and at a nearby summer camp for teenagers that left at least 92 dead has "admitted responsibility," his lawyer told Norway's NRK television network Saturday.

Police labeled the attacks as acts of terrorism punishable by up to 21 years in prison according to Norwegian law, the Wall Street Journal reported. Norway does not have the death penalty.
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Lippestad Saturday told Norway's NRK television network that his client had "admitted responsibility" for Friday's attacks.

"He explained that it was cruel but that he had to go through with these acts," Lippestad said, according to AFP, adding that the attacks were "apparently planned over a long period of time."

He said his client would explain himself in court Monday when he was arraigned, the BBC reported. The court would determine if police could continue to hold him, the report said.

According to a 1500-page manifesto apparently written by Breivik, he had been planning the operation since at least autumn 2009.

The document -- entitled "2083-A European Declaration of Independence" -- was published on the site www.freak.no describing the author's background and political viewpoints.

It is part diary, part bomb-making manual and part political rant in which Breivik details his Islamophobia, attacks on Marxism and his initiation as a Knight Templar.
Dow Jones reported that several hours before the Oslo car bomb blast in a downtown government quarter, Breivik released a YouTube video calling for conservatives to "embrace martyrdom."
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Police chief Sveinung Sponheim told a press conference Saturday that police were investigating unconfirmed witness reports of a second shooter on idyllic Utoya Island, where the gunman, disguised as a policeman, opened fire on terrified teenagers at a summer camp affiliated with the ruling Labour Party.

Sponheim said the suspect was answering questions and the interrogation was likely to continue for several days.

Police official Roger Andresen described him as a "Christian fundamentalist" who was "cooperating" with investigators in an attempt "to explain himself."

Police were also examining the suspect's car and computer records and hope to determine if he was affiliated with an extremist group.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/norway-killing-suspect-may-explain-motives.html
Norway Killing Suspect May Explain Motives
July 24, 2011

Anders Behring Breivik, the man detained for killing 93 people in a Norwegian shooting rampage and bombing, will make his first court appearance today and may shed light on his motives for the attacks.

Breivik will have a custody hearing at Oslo District Court before judge Kim Heger at about 1 p.m. local time and has requested the event be public, court spokeswoman Irene Ramm said by phone yesterday. He will be questioned by the judge and also will be allowed to make a statement, police spokeswoman Trine Dyngeland said yesterday.

Breivik, 32, has confessed to the killings -- the Nordic nation’s deadliest incident since World War II -- while not pleading guilty, Acting Oslo Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said yesterday. If convicted on the two counts of Acts of Terror he has been charged with, he could receive a maximum sentence of 21 years in prison, Norway’s toughest punishment.

“It is a possibility, but not likely, that he will spend the rest of his life in prison,” Oslo Police spokeswoman Carol Sandbye said yesterday by phone.

If Breivik were convicted, prosecutors could ask that he be imprisoned longer than 21 years on the ground that he might repeat a violent crime and that a 21-year sentence would not be sufficient to prevent that, Sandbye said. Were that to happen, Breivik would then need to be retried every five, she said.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-24/norway-killing-suspect-may-explain-motives.html

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/in-diary-norwegian-crusader-details-months-of-preparation-for-attacks/2011/07/24/gIQACYnUXI_story.html
In diary, Norwegian ‘crusader’ details months of preparation for attacks
July 24, 2011

OSLO — In the minutely detailed diary he began compiling May 1, Anders Behring Breivik comes across as obsessive, anxious and narcissistic. Meticulously recording his actions, he describes how he assembled the explosives he would use to set off a car bomb in Oslo and how he prepared for the shooting spree he would then launch on the island of Utoeya.

For 82 days, he wrote it all down.
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Breivik, a 32-year-old who contends he is waging a Christian crusade against multiculturalism in Europe, believes the killings were “gruesome” but “necessary,” said his attorney, Geir Lippestad. Breivik has acknowledged that he carried out the attacks, his lawyer said, but he denies criminal responsibility. Police officials said Sunday that Breivik told them he acted without an accomplice.

His diary is part of a 1,500-page manifesto that Breivik admits posting on the Internet, Lippestad says. Part history, part commentary, part how-to manual, it lays out his loathing of Islam and his determination to preserve a Christian Europe. It is written in English, a language Scandinavians often turn to when trying to reach the broadest possible audience. The Norwegian newspaper VG has reported that sections of it were lifted from the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

As of Sunday evening, Breivik’s one-man revolution had left 93 dead and 96 injured, with four still missing. Divers continued to search the waters around the island for bodies.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2084933,00.html
Norway Princess' Brother Killed in Massacre
July 25, 2011

OSLO, Norway) — Norway's royal court says Crown Princess Mette-Marit's stepbrother, an off-duty police officer, was among the 86 people killed when a gunman opened fire at a youth camp.

Court spokeswoman Marianne Hagen says the victim was Trond Berntsen, the son of Mette-Marit's stepfather, who died in 2008.
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Norway Attack Suspect Due in Court
July 25, 2011

Anders Behring Breivik, the man accused of the twin attacks in Norway Friday that killed 93 people, makes his first court appearance today. In a closed-door arraignment, he is expected to explain what motivated him to massacre so many of his fellow countrymen, according to his lawyer.

Judge Kim Heger decided on a closed-door arraignment on a request from police, a spokesman told the Associated Press, denying Breivik the public platform he'd hoped for.

Breivik's attorney, Geir Lippestad, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that his client had requested to appear at his arraignment in uniform but didn't know what kind, according to the Associated Press.
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Prosecutors are expected to request eight weeks of pretrial detention for the suspect while they put their case together.

Meanwhile, the search continues for four people unaccounted for in the shootings at a summer youth camp run by the youth wing of Norway's Labor Party.
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On Monday, it was revealed that one of those killed at the island retreat included Crown Princess Mette-Marit's stepbrother, and an off-duty police officer, who worked at the camp as a security guard, the Associated Press reported.
Norway will observe a minute of silence at noon Monday local time for the 93 people killed in the two attacks.
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http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=230919
Norway judge: Terror suspect mentioned 'two more cells'
July 25, 2011

The Norwegian judge presiding over the detention hearing for Anders Behring Breivik said on Monday that the he approved the remand extension of the bombing and shooting attack suspect by up to eight weeks, noting that statements made by Breivik "sufficiently proves that the accused acted with the intent of terror."

Also justifying the suspect's continued remand in solitary confinement, the judge said there "is an immediate risk that the accused would tamper with evidence in the case" were he released. The judge also referenced that "the accused has given statements that require further investigation including a statement about 'two more cells in our organization.'"
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Prosecutors said they would ask for eight weeks of detention for Breivik at the hearing. That can be extended before trial.

The hearing was closed to the media.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/8659503/Norway-killings-Anders-Behring-Breivik-warns-of-more-cells.html
Norway killings: Anders Behring Breivik warns of 'more cells'
July 25, 2011

A judge said Breivik had admitted perpetrating the twin attacks in Oslo and Utoya but had not pleaded guilty, saying that he was defending western Europe from "Muslim takeover" and making the ruling Labour Party pay for "failing" the country.

Judge Kim Heger said he had been charged with terrorism following Friday's attacks which left 93 people dead and ordered that he be held in custody for eight weeks because there was a risk he might "tamper with evidence" if released.

The 32-year-old will be held in solitary confinement until at least August 22 and will be banned from seeing visitors, receiving letters and reading newspapers or watching television for the entire remand period up until September 26.

During the hearing, which was closed to both the public and the media, Breivik warned there were "two more cells in our organisation" that would continue his work.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20082948-503543.html
Breivik's father: I wish my son killed himself
July 25, 2011

The father of Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who confessed to last Friday's twin terror attacks, said he was ashamed and disgusted by his son's acts and wished he had committed suicide.

Jens David Breivik, a former diplomat who lives in retirement in the south of France, said he first learned of his son's attacks from media websites.

"I couldn't believe my eyes. It was totally paralyzing and I couldn't really understand it," he said.

Breivik's parents divorced in 1980, and his father lived in London while he and his mother lived in Oslo.
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"I will have to live with this shame for the rest of my life. People will always link me with him," he said.
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On Monday police surrounded the elder Breivik's house in the south of France, to ensure the safety of Breivik after reporters and photographers swarmed to his property.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/28/norway.attacks/
Norway terror suspect to face second interrogation
July 28, 2011

Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- Police are preparing to interview Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect in last week's terror attacks, for a second time Friday, Oslo police chief Johan Fredriksen said Thursday.

Breivik, who is being kept in solitary confinement at Ila Prison, near Oslo, was last interviewed Saturday, a day after a bomb blast outside government buildings in the Norwegian capital and a mass shooting on the island of Utoya claimed at least 76 lives.

Police attorney Pal-Frederick Hjort Kraby said police had since gained a considerable amount of new information and were ready to question Breivik again at police headquarters. He is likely to face more interrogations in the coming weeks.
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Breivik has admitted carrying out the bombing in Oslo, in which eight people died, and the shootings on Utoya, his lawyer and a judge have said.

He currently has contact only with his lawyer and the prison staff who take him food, Kraby said. The investigation is complex and it is likely to be months before Breivik comes to trial, the lawyer added.

Police believe most of the court hearings Breivik attends, such as his first appearance before a judge Monday, will be closed to the public. Kraby said this was in part because of concerns he might send coded messages to others.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/08/14/norway.attacks/index.html?eref=ft
Norway attack suspect returns to scene of shooting
August 15, 2011

(CNN) -- The suspect accused of ambushing a political youth retreat and killing dozens of people in Norway last month returned to the island where the shooting rampage took place as part of a police investigation, authorities said Sunday.

Police said attack suspect Anders Behring Breivik "was not emotionally unmoved," but did not express remorse during his return to Utoya Island Saturday.

"He did not express any regrets about what he had done," Police Prosecutor Pal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby told reporters.

Police said they spent nearly eight hours questioning Breivik and walking with him around the island during a reconstruction of last month's attack.

The Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang published what it said were photos and video images of the reconstruction.
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Hjort Kraby said Sunday that the reconstruction was a necessary step in the police investigation, but "had to be conducted in a way not offending the victims and their relatives."
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Video at Link

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-08-20-norway-utoya-survivors_n.htm
Survivors return to Norway's Utoya Island
August 20, 2011

UTVIKA, Norway (AP) — Survivors of a massacre which claimed the lives of 69 people in Norway last month carried flowers to the site of the killings Saturday, laughter blending with tears as they remembered the joys of an island youth camp that turned into a scene of horror.
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Many lit candles and laid handwritten notes in memory of their friends at the sites where they were shot during the summer camp organized by the youth wing of Norway's Labor Party.
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Up to 1,000 survivors and relatives were expected on Utoya, accompanied by police and medical staff, to face the painful memories of the shooting spree by a right-wing extremist.
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Media were not allowed access to the heavily guarded island where Breivik spent 90 minutes executing the 69 people. Many of the victims were shot in the water as they tried to escape by swimming.

From a distance ferries and a pontoon could be seen shuttling survivors, in bright orange life vests, to the forested island used by the ruling Labor Party for political functions, camping and celebrations.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0822/1224302806227.html
Memorial service for Norwegian victims
August 22, 2011

FREEDOM IS stronger than fear,” Norway’s King Harald told his nation yesterday, hoping to unite a people shattered by the killing of 77 people last month by an anti-immigration zealot.

The king spoke, often in a trembling voice, at a national ceremony of remembrance for those killed by Anders Behring Breivik, who detonated a car bomb in Oslo and shot young people at a Labour Party camp on Utoeya island outside the capital.

Relatives sobbed when the names of the dead were read out one by one, while pictures of them were projected onto a screen.

“I maintain a belief that freedom is stronger than fear,” said King Harald. “It is good to be together at this time . . . As a father, grandfather and spouse, I can only begin to sense some of the pain you feel. As king of the nation I feel for every one of you.”

Dressed in a black suit and with tears in his eyes, the 74-year-old monarch praised the work of emergency workers and others who helped save lives on July 22nd.

Some 6,700 people attended the Oslo ceremony, including relatives of the victims, survivors, police, firemen and emergency personnel who dealt with the attacks.
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Audio at Link

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190504577037813540267528.html
Norway Killer in First Public Court Hearing
November 14, 2011

OSLO—The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway tried to declare himself a resistance leader Monday at his first public court hearing but was quickly cut off by the judge.
Anders Behring Breivik was escorted by guards into an Oslo courtroom packed with dozens of reporters and spectators, including survivors of his rampage at a youth camp near the capital who were seeing him in person for the first time since the July 22 attack.

"I am a military commander in the Norwegian resistance movement," Mr. Breivik said before the judge interrupted him and told him to stick to the issue at hand—his further detention.

The court extended his custody 12 more weeks until Feb. 6 but decided to gradually lift the restrictions on his media access, visitors and mail. Mr. Breivik is being held pending his trial on terror charges.

At the end of the hearing, the 32-year-old Norwegian asked Judge Torkjel Nesheim if he could address survivors and victims' relatives but was turned down.

Previous court hearings in the case have been closed to the public. At the end of Monday's hearing, the judge lifted a ban on reporting the proceedings.

Investigators say Mr. Breivik set off a fertilizer bomb outside government headquarters on July 22, killing eight people, before heading to an island retreat, where youth sections of Norway's governing Labor Party were holding their annual summer camp.
Disguised as a police officer, he opened fire on scores of panicked youths, shooting some as they fled into the lake. Sixty nine people were killed on Utoya island before Breivik surrendered to a police SWAT team.
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Like he did in previous closed hearings, Mr. Breivik on Monday confessed to the attacks but pleaded not guilty to terror charges. Mr. Breivik has denied criminal guilt, saying he was in a state of war to protect Europe from being taken over by Muslim immigrants.

He described his pre-trial detention at the Ila prison in Oslo as "irrational torture."
His defense lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told reporters after the hearing that Mr. Breivik doesn't recognize the authority of the court and demands to be released from prison.

The judge said there were sufficient grounds to keep Mr. Breivik in custody considering the gravity of the crime and the risk that he would interfere with the investigation if released.

Mr. Breivik has been held in isolation since his arrest, without access to media, mail or visitors. The judge said the media ban should be lifted Dec. 12 and the other restrictions on Jan. 9.

An online manifesto attributed to Mr. Breivik sheds light on his choice of targets. In it, he lays out a blueprint for a multi-phase revolution, targeting left-leaning political elites he accuses of destroying their own societies by admitting large numbers of immigrants, especially from Muslim countries.

His actions have been widely condemned, including by the anti-Islamic bloggers and groups that he cited prolifically in the document.
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Police prosecutor Paal Hjort Kraby said Mr. Breivik most likely plotted and executed the attacks on his own, but said it cannot be ruled out that he had accomplices.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/29/world/europe/norway-terror-suspect/index.html
Norway mass murder suspect is insane, police say
November 29, 2011

(CNN) -- The man accused of killing 77 people in a terrorist rampage that shook Norway last summer is insane and cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention, but can be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life, police said Tuesday.

Anders Behring Breivik suffers "grandiose delusions" and "believes he is chosen to decide who is to live and who is to die," Prosecutor Svein Holden announced.

Police said psychiatrists had determined that the 32-year-old man was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward. The doctors also found him to be paranoid and schizophrenic, police said.

The experts reached their conclusions after 36 hours of interviews with Breivik, police said.
(CNN) -- The man accused of killing 77 people in a terrorist rampage that shook Norway last summer is insane and cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention, but can be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life, police said Tuesday.

Anders Behring Breivik suffers "grandiose delusions" and "believes he is chosen to decide who is to live and who is to die," Prosecutor Svein Holden announced.

Police said psychiatrists had determined that the 32-year-old man was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward. The doctors also found him to be paranoid and schizophrenic, police said.
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http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/12/02/breivik-can-be-sent-back-to-prison/
‘Breivik can be sent back to prison’
December 2, 2011

Norway’s worst mass murderer since World War II may still wind up in a high-security prison, despite being declared insane this week by court-appointed psychiatrists. The fate of Anders Behring Breivik has dominated Norwegian media all week, and now one of his main prosecutors seems to be easing public fears that he may some day be set free.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-12-02/alp-conference-norway-young-labor-party/3710118/?site=newcastle
ALP honours Norway's true believers
By Naomi Woodley and Sabra Lane
December 2, 2011

There was a brief respite from the lobbying and number counting at the ALP national conference this afternoon, when delegates paused to welcome three members of Norway's Young Labor Party.

Scores of their number were killed in July when gunman Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting spree at a youth camp outside the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

Today, Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented a condolence book on behalf of their Australian colleagues.

"Treasured souls were lost that day," she said.

"We did not know them as friends the way you did. But we understood them as kindred spirits, what we call in our Australian Labor Party, true believers."

The group's leader, Eskil Pedersen, thanked the delegates for their warm welcome.
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http://www.10news.com/news/29928951/detail.html
Half-Sister Of Norway Killer Interviewed In SD
Elisabeth Griffin, Half-Sister Of Anders Behring Breivik, Interviewed At FBI Headquarters In San Diego
December 5, 2011

SAN DIEGO -- New details are emerging on Monday about top-secret meetings in San Diego to find out what may have triggered a bombing and mass shooting in Norway.
In July, a total of 77 people were killed in a bombing in Oslo and a mass shooting at a youth camp. That brought Norwegian investigators to San Diego to talk to the half-sister of the man who has admitted to the killings.

"The police have been very secretive because she doesn't want to be exposed," said Elin Sorsdhal, a Norwegian television reporter.

Sorsdahl is referring to Elisabeth Breivik Griffin, who is the half-sister of Anders Behring Breivik. Breivik has admitted to being responsible for the attacks.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/13/world/europe/norway-breivik-sanity/index.html
Suspect in Norway killings faces new sanity test
January 13, 2012

Oslo (CNN) -- The man accused of killing 77 people in Norway last summer will undergo a new psychiatric evaluation, Oslo police said Friday, after an earlier test found him to be insane.

Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen told reporters Friday that the court wanted a second opinion because of the importance of the question to Anders Behring Breivik's trial, due to start in April.

This was not a criticism of the previous report, she said.

Breivik has been assigned two new psychiatrists to carry out the evaluation, Oslo police said.
In November, prosecutors said psychiatrists had determined Breivik was psychotic at the time of the attacks and during 13 interviews experts conducted with him afterward.

The ruling meant he cannot be sentenced to prison or preventive detention, but he can be confined to a mental hospital for the rest of his life, prosecutors said.
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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Norway+killer+wants+first+interview+with+foreign+lawyer/6077399/story.html
Norway killer wants first interview with foreign TV: lawyer
January 31, 2012

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/feb/06/anders-behring-breivik-court-video?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik appears in court – video
February 6, 2012

The Norwegian confessed mass killer has attended his last scheduled detention hearing before his trial starts in April. Unlike the only previous public hearing, Breivik this time agreed to let himself be photographed before the proceedings began. He denies criminal guilt, saying he is a commander of a resistance movement aiming to overthrow European governments

Video at Link (with English subtitles)

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/norwegian_court_rejects_gunman_breivik_Asugr0Rj3PBuY1781kqXLO
Norwegian court rules confessed killer Breivik must undergo second psychiatric evaluation
February 2, 2012

OSLO -- A Norwegian court ruled Thursday that confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik must undergo a second psychiatric evaluation, rejecting his appeal against the order, the VG daily reported.

Breivik, who was controversially found to be insane after admitting responsibility for twin attacks that left 77 people dead, was ordered to take a new psychiatric exam by Oslo district court last month.

The killer appealed the decision, complaining that it was based, in part, on confidential information.

But Oslo's appeals court rejected that argument Thursday meaning Breivik can now be examined by new psychiatrists, according to VG.
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http://www.english.rfi.fr/europe/20120215-french-police-interview-norwegian-mass-murderer-breiviks-father
French police to interview Norwegian mass murderer Breivik's father
February 15, 2012

French police are to question the father of Norway’s far-right mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik, after Paris prosecutors agreed to a Norwegian request for help. Former diplomat Jens Breivik lives in southern France
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Although he has not seen his son for several years and has not lived with him since he the boy was one year old, Norwegian police believe that his testimony is important in establishing a psychological profile of the mass murderer.

But he has so far refused to return to Norway or go to its embassy in France, so the Paris officials must now seek an interview with him and invite Norwegian observers.
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http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/02/16/breivik-agrees-to-new-psychiatric-evaluation/
Breivik agrees to new psychiatric evaluation
February 16, 2012

Confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has changed his mind and now says he’ll cooperate with a new psychiatric evaluation of his mental state.

Breivik, who just turned 33, agreed to talk with new court-appointed psychiatrists after Norway’s Supreme Court rejected his appeal of their appointment. It means he now won’t need to be committed for psychiatric evaluation after all.

Breivik’s defense attorney Geir Lippestad told news bureau NTB that his client is now anxious to point out what he contends are errors in an earlier psychiatric evaluation that’s been contested since it determined that Breivik is insane. That would mean he can’t be punished with a prison term.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/norwegian-prosecutors-have-requested-help-from-facebook-to-investigate-anders-behring-breivik/story-e6frg6so-1226271483927
Norwegian prosecutors have requested help from Facebook to investigate Anders Behring Breivik
February 15, 2012

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/02/22/auf-cancels-utoya-summer-camp/
AUF cancels Utøya summer camp
February 22, 2012

The Labour Party’s youth organization AUF claims it still intends “to take Utøya back” after last summer’s massacre on the island, but it’s decided to cancel this year’s political summer camp. More time is needed to repair and replace facilities where 69 persons were killed and 66 wounded on July 22.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9093520/Norway-killer-Anders-Behring-Breivik-had-hit-list-of-30-targets.html
Norway killer Anders Behring Breivik 'had hit-list of 30 targets'
February 20, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik had a death-list of 12 Norwegian "traitors" and his "Plan A" was to attack 30 targets including Norway's Royal Palace and the HQ of Amnesty International, according to leaked police documents.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/feb/22/anders-behring-breivik-play-oslo?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik play to be staged in Oslo
Second production of play based on the manifesto of the Norwegian mass murderer is to be staged in the city where his attack began
February 22, 2012

A controversial play based on the manifesto of Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik is to be staged in the city where his attack began.

Following its premiere in Denmark this August, produced by Café Teatret, a second production of Manifesto 2083 will be staged at the Drama House (Dramatikken Hus) in Oslo. The theatre is less than a kilometre away from the car bomb Breivik planted outside Oslo's government buildings on 22 July last year, which killed eight people, before he travelled to Utøya Island and murdered a further 69 people.

Breivik, whose trial begins in April, has confessed to the killings but denies criminal guilt.

The Drama House's artistic director Kai Johnsen told Agence France-Presse: "Naturally, the problems linked to 22 July have been widely discussed in the public debate for months, but the language used has until now been primarily legalese, journalese and, most recently, psychiatric."

He continued: "I think art is an important voice to understand and decipher the problems [raised by the attacks]."
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-07/norway-massacre-indictment/53396010/1
Terror indictment unveiled in Norway massacre
March 7, 2012

OSLO, Norway (AP) – Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday indicted Anders Behring Breivik on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage but said the confessed mass killer likely won't go to prison for the country's worst peacetime massacre.
Prosecutors said they consider the 33-year-old right-wing extremist psychotic and will seek a sentence of involuntary commitment to psychiatric care instead of imprisonment unless new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to start in April.

As expected, they charged him under a paragraph in Norway's anti-terror law that refers to violent acts intended to disrupt key government functions or spread fears in the population.

Breivik has confessed to the July 22 attacks but denies criminal guilt, portraying the victims as "traitors" for embracing immigration policies he claims will result in an Islamic colonization of Norway.

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded in downtown Oslo and another 69 people died in a shooting spree on Utoya island outside the capital, where the youth wing of the governing Labor Party was holding its annual summer camp.

Reading from the indictment, prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh said 34 of the victims at Utoya were between 14 and 17 years old, 22 were aged 18-20, six were between 21 and 25 and seven were older than 25.

She said 67 died of gunshot wounds, and two died of fall injuries or drowning. In addition, 33 people were wounded by bullets, but survived.
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http://www.rttnews.com/1854846/norwegian-mass-killer-disputes-insane-diagnosis.aspx?type=gn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap
Norwegian Mass Killer Disputes 'Insane' Diagnosis
April 4, 2012

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http://www.firstpost.com/world/wounded-survivor-revisits-massacre-island-as-norway-trial-looms-266851.html
Wounded survivor revisits massacre island as Norway trial looms
April 4, 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17663958
Norway's mass killer Breivik declared sane
A second psychiatric evaluation of Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has found him sane enough to face trial and a jail term.
April 10, 2012

The findings contradict a previous evaluation, published in November, that found him legally insane.

Breivik is due to stand trial on Monday over a bomb attack and shooting spree last July that killed 77 people.

Both reports will be considered by the court when it decides whether he should be sent to a psychiatric ward or jail.

The second evaluation was approved by a court in January following widespread criticism of last year's assessment that concluded he was psychotic at the time of the attacks and diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic - meaning he would most likely be detained in psychiatric care.

Many of his surviving victims believed he was sane, and that the only proper punishment would be a prison sentence.
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Breivik's victims

    Eight people killed and 209 injured by bomb in Oslo
    69 people killed on Utoeya, of them 34 aged between 14 and 17 including Eva Kathinka Lutken (above)
    33 injured on Utoeya
    Nearly 900 people affected by attacks

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/defense-requests-another-delay-in-fort-hood-shooting-2295551.html
Defense requests another delay in Fort Hood shooting trial
By Jeremy Schwartz, American-Statesman Staff
April 11, 2012

FORT HOOD — Defense attorneys asked for another delay Tuesday in the court-martial of the Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 shootings at Fort Hood, arguing that they still have 90,000 pages of documents to sift through and blaming prosecutors for refusing to release key documents.

And in an indication that the court-martial will last months, lawyers revealed that there are at least 242 potential witnesses, about three times as many as testified during a pretrial hearing that lasted several weeks in 2010.

Maj. Nidal Hasan faces 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the shooting of soldiers preparing to deploy to Afghanistan at a busy medical processing center.

The military judge, Col. Gregory Gross, did not rule on the request to move the court-martial's start date from June to Oct. 9. He had previously granted a delay from an initial March 5 start date after defense attorneys made similar arguments.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-04-14/norway-massacre-trial/54273064/1
Norway massacre survivors brace for killer's trial on Monday
April 14, 2012

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57414481/norway-mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik-claims-self-defense-in-bomb-and-shooting-massacre/
Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik claims self-defense in bomb-and-shooting massacre
April 16, 2012

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-57414833-503543/norwegians-suffering-from-breivik-fatigue-as-media-covers-trial/
Norwegians suffering from Breivik fatigue as media covers trial
April 16, 2012

(CBS News) Too much news about Anders Behring Breivik is frustrating the people of Norway. According to Sky News, most citizens do not believe the continuing coverage - which is increasing this week as Breivik's trial begins - will add important details about the attack that claimed 77 lives last July.

In fact, citizens are so annoyed with the coverage that one newspaper, Dagbladet, has included a "Breivik button" on its website that strips out stories on the accused mass-murderer for a Breivik-free reading experience.
According to the Associated Press, there are about 800 journalists covering Breivik's trial. Many broadcasters are covering some of the proceedings live and Breivik's trial is expected to last 10 weeks. Opening arguments started on April 16. If convicted, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 21 years or an arrangement where he will be an inmate until he is no longer deemed a danger to society.

The Oslo District Court allowed pool broadcaster NRK of Norway to show much of the beginning of the trial live, but they will not be allowed to show Breivik's or the victims' upcoming testimonies. They will also not be allowed to broadcast surveillance video from the car bombing or an emergency call from a teenager who was hiding during the attack on the political camp.

Text reports have not been banned, however. NRK will report Breivik's testimony on their website, but will remove the sound from most of the descriptions of Breivik's killings out of respect for the victims, survivors and their families.

But, while the press is hounding the courthouse, only 50 members of the public showed up to get one of the 139 free tickets made available to watch the trial on the first day.

"It's important that he is found guilty. But I don't like him getting so much publicity," Allan Jensen, one of the people who helped rescue teens on Utoya, told Sky News. "I don't like him getting speaker's corner there for a whole week. I don't think that's good but that's democracy."
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http://www.smh.com.au/world/a-ghastly-litany-of-relentless-slaughter-man-of-stone-breivik-eventually-reduced-to-tears-20120417-1x493.html
A ghastly litany of relentless slaughter: man of stone Breivik eventually reduced to tears
April 17, 2012


Video at Link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17737085
Breivik due to take stand in Norway massacre trial
The man accused of killing 77 people in bomb and gun attacks in Norway last July is due to take to the stand on the second day of his trial in Oslo
April 16, 2012

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17740229
Norway's lay judge system
April 17, 2012

For over 100 years, citizens in Norway have participated in court cases not only as jurors but as "lay judges".

Norway's justice ministry says that the idea behind their participation is that these independent lay people "should use their common sense and good judgement to determine questions of guilt and innocence".

They provide a counterbalance to "official power and the establishment".

In criminal cases in district courts, lay judges sit together with professional judges to rule on an equal basis on both the question of guilt and on sentencing.

Due to the nature of the case against Anders Behring Breivik, the Oslo court is sitting as an "extended court", with two professional and three lay judges.

All cases before Norwegian courts are presided over by a professional judge, in this case Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen. Professional judges are always law graduates and are civil servants appointed by an independent body.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/17/anders-behring-breivik-claims-victims-not-innocent?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik claims victims were not innocent
Gunman says youngsters shot on Utøya were not 'non-political children' and compares them to the Hitler Youth
April 17, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik has described his killing spree last summer as "the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack committed in Europe since the second world war".

The 33-year-old made the claims in a written statement he was allowed to read to the court on the second day of his trial – an unusual demand granted only because he refused to give evidence conventionally otherwise.

The rambling text, which he claimed he had "self censored" out of respect for the bereaved sitting in court, attempted to justify what he had done in the name of "revolutionary nationalism".

He expressed no regret for planning and carrying out the attacks that left 77 dead last summer. Maintaining he acted out of "goodness, not evil" to prevent a "major civil war", Breivik insisted: "I would have done it again."
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2112227,00.html
Breivik Defends Massacre, Judge Dismissed
April 17, 2012

(OSLO, Norway) — Anders Behring Breivik defended his massacre of 77 people Tuesday and called the bomb-and-shooting rampage the most "spectacular" attacks by a nationalist militant since World War II.

Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and multiculturalism.
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The statement came after a citizen judge was dismissed Tuesday for his comments online the day following the July 22 attack that Breivik deserves the death penalty. Lawyers on all sides had requested that lay judge Thomas Indreboe be taken off the trial.
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Indreboe was replaced by backup lay judge Elisabeth Wisloeff.

As at the start of the trial on Monday, Breivik entered the court smirking before flashing a clenched-fist salute.

Breivik has five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo's government district, killing eight, and then gunned down 69 at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital. He denies criminal guilt saying he was acting in self-defense.

Survivors of the massacre have worried he will use his testimony as a platform to promote his extremist views. The key issue for the court to decide is whether Breivik is psychotic.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17739105
Breivik: What's behind clenched-fist salutes?
April 17, 2012

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0418/Why-does-Norway-s-Breivik-invoke-the-Knights-Templar-video
Why does Norway's Breivik invoke the Knights Templar? (+video)

Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a twin terror attack in Norway last July, claims to be a member of a reborn 'Knights Templar.' What's the symbolism?
April 18, 2012

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9212244/Anders-Breiviks-Norway-massacre-partly-inspired-by-English-mentor-trial-hears.html
Anders Breivik's Norway massacre partly inspired by 'English mentor', trial hears
Anders Behring Breivik's massacre in Norway was partly inspired by an "English mentor" who ranked among the most "brilliant political and military tacticians" in Europe, the killer declared yesterday.
April 18, 2012

Video at Link

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/18/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/?hpt=hp_t3
Admitted Norway killer asked to stop fist salutes
April 18, 2012

slo, Norway (CNN) -- Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer, has been asked to stop raising his fist in salute each morning at his trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.

"We will just have to hope that he respects that wish tomorrow. Either he will or he won't. There's nothing that we can order him to do," said the lawyer, Geir Lippestad.

Lawyers for the victims of the massacre made the request, he said.

Breivik, who boasts of being an ultra-nationalist who killed his victims to fight multi-culturalism in Norway, was in good spirits on the third day of his trial Wednesday, Lippestad said.

"I would say he's always in a good mood," Lippestad told reporters after the day's legal proceedings.
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 Video at Link

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-19/breivik-considered-three-bombs-before-oslo-shooting-spree-1-.html
Breivik Considered Three Bombs Before Oslo Shooting Spree
By Josiane Kremer and Kristin Myers
April 19, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer of 77 people in Norway’s July 22 twin terror attacks, said he had planned to detonate three bombs before killing as many as possible in a shooting rampage across Oslo.

The 33-year-old had considered targets such as the Aftenposten newspaper, City Hall and the Royal Castle, he told the Oslo court today. If he had survived the bomb attacks, he planned to attack Blitz, a left-wing group, newspapers and political parties in Oslo to kill as many people as possible, he said in his third day of testimony.

The plan failed because it was “more difficult than I thought to build a bomb,” he said.

Breivik in July killed 69 people at a Labor Party youth camp on the island of Utoeya and detonated a car bomb by the prime minister’s office, taking eight lives. He has confessed to the murders, saying he acted out of necessity to protect Norway against multiculturalism and the spread of Islam.

One of the “primary motives” behind the attacks was to gain publicity for a manifesto he published the day of the attacks, he said. The compendium “is an attempt to make a foundation for the extreme right in Europe,” he told prosecutors.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57416250/norway-mass-killer-anders-behring-breivik-wanted-to-behead-former-prime-minister-during-massacre/
Norway mass killer Anders Behring Breivik wanted to behead former prime minister during massacre
April 19, 2012

(AP) OSLO, Norway - Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik testified Thursday that he had planned to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island.

Breivik said his plan was to film the beheading and post the video on the Internet. Brundtland had already left the Labor Party's youth camp on Utoya when Breivik arrived on July 22, after setting off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people.

Sixty-nine people, mostly teenagers, were killed on Utoya, where nearly 600 members of the Labor Party's youth wing had gathered for their annual summer retreat.

"The plan was to behead Gro Harlem Brundtland while it was being filmed," Breivik told the court.
The far-right fanatic said he was inspired by al Qaeda's use of decapitation but noted that "beheading is a traditional European death penalty."

"It was meant to be used as a very powerful psychological weapon," he said.
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Can you say 'fruitcake'? 

They need to lock this guy up and throw away the key.  YIKES!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/20/anders-behring-breivik-edl-trial?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik denies contact with EDL
Norwegian killer tells trial that English Defence League cannot compare to Knights Templar, to which he claims to belong
April 20, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik has denied having contact with the English Defence League, the anti-Islamic network formed in Britain in 2009.

Giving evidence on the fifth day of his 10-week trial for killing 77 people in Norway last summer, the 33-year-old admitted he had posted on internet forums linked to the EDL and had traded messages with an EDL member on one of them. But, he insisted: "I have never had contact with the English Defence League."

He told the court that the EDL was fundamentally different from the Knights Templar (KT), the anti-immigration network of "militant nationalists" to which he professes to belong. He said: "The EDL is an anti-violent organisation supporting democracy and [opposing] Sharia and Islamisation and they have nothing to do with KT at all. You cannot even compare them."

Questioned by his own lawyers about how he was able to carry out the attacks, Breivik described a "meditation" technique he had developed which mixed "Christian prayer" and Japanese "Bushido warrior codex" practised by Samurai fighters.
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/killer-gloats-court-norway-shows-anger-16190026
As Killer Gloats in Court, Norway Shows No Anger
By Karl Ritter/AP
April 22, 2012

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/04/23/norway-mass-killer-claims-racist-plot-to-cast-him-as-insane/
Norway mass killer claims 'racist' plot to cast him as insane
April 23, 2012

OSLO, Norway –  Anxious to prove he's not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik told a court Monday that questions about his mental health are part of a racist plot to discredit his extreme anti-Muslim ideology.

Breivik, who has admitted to killing 77 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre, said that no one would have asked for a psychiatric examination had he been a "bearded jihadist."

"But because I am a militant nationalist, I am being subjected to grave racism," he said. "They are trying to delegitimize everything I stand for."

Breivik rejects criminal guilt for the rampage on July 22, saying the victims had betrayed their country by embracing immigration.

Even the defense admits there is virtually no chance of an acquittal, so the key issue to be determined in the trial is whether Breivik is criminally insane.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9221909/Anders-Behring-Breivik-phoned-police-to-surrender-but-carried-on-when-they-failed-to-return-call.html
Anders Behring Breivik phoned police to surrender but carried on when they failed to return call
By Audrey Andersen, Oslo
April 23, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303592404577361970443656012.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
One Norway Killer Evaluation Said Flawed
April 23, 2012

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As the ten-week trial of Anders Behring Breivik entered its sixth day, the Norwegian Board of Forensic Medicine cast a shadow over the latest psychiatric report that on April 10 deemed Mr. Breivik sane. Two separate psychiatric evaluations with conflicting conclusions of Mr. Breivik's mental state are at the heart of the 10-week trial, and will help the five judges determine whether Mr. Breivik should be sentenced to compulsory mental care, if deemed insane, or to prison for a maximum of 21 years, with the possibility of indefinite extension, if deemed sane.

The board, which exercises quality control over evaluations, said the evaluation conducted by psychiatrists Agnar Aspaas and Terje Torrisen lacked information about Mr. Breivik's childhood and sufficient consideration of the possibility that Mr. Breivik's apparent sanity was an act designed to dupe the experts. Dr. Aspaas told the court additional information will be handed in by the end of the week, with no delay to the trial. Prosecutors said that the commissions' demand for additional information did not affect its view about Mr. Breivik's sanity.
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Forensic psychologist Pal Grondahl said that six days into the trial, the court probably hasn't come any nearer to a definite conclusion on Mr. Breivik's status. "We have heard many strange things [from Mr. Breivik], but nothing that would obviously categorize him as insane," Mr. Grondahl said.

However, he added, although Mr. Breivik may give an impression of sanity, it is impossible to discount the possibility that he is deliberately putting on an act.

"If you have delusions you may understand that other people find it strange, and adjust to that," Mr. Grondahl says.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/us-norway-breivik-protest-idUSBRE83P0IB20120426?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=71
Tens of thousands protest at Norway Breivik trial
April 25, 2012

(Reuters) - Up to 40,000 Norwegians staged an emotionally-charged sing-along in Oslo on Thursday near the court house where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for the murder of 77 people in a protest organizers said showed he had not broken their tolerant society.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2012/0426/Breivik-slam-on-Rainbow-song-an-insult-too-far-for-Norwegians
Breivik slam on 'Rainbow' song an insult too far for Norwegians
Anders Behring Breivik said in testimony last week that a popular Norwegian song promoting tolerance is a Marxist brainwashing tool, but 40,000 Norwegians turned out today to reject that.
By Valeria Criscione, Correspondent
April 26, 2012

Oslo

Forty thousand Norwegians marched and sang in Oslo today in an impromptu protest against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik for calling the popular children's song “Children of the Rainbow” a Marxist song used to brainwash youth.
The man behind last summer’s twin terror attacks said in court testimony last week that the Norwegian song by Lillebjørn Nilsen, based on US folksinger Pete Seeger’s original version “My Rainbow Race” in 1967, was an example of how Norwegian schools function as an “indoctrination camp” for “cultural Marxism and multiculturalism.”
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Breivik’s comments prompted Norwegians Christine Bar and Lill Hjønnevåg to organize via Facebook a gathering at Youngstorget, the square in front of the Labor party headquarters. It is adjacent to Breivik's bombing target and just blocks from Oslo District Court, where Breivik is currently on trial for killing 77 people total in the two July 2011 attacks.
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114602,00.html
Shoe-Thrower Interrupts Breivik Trial
By AP / JULIA GRONNEVET
May 11, 2012

OSLO, Norway) — The trial of Anders Behring Breivik was interrupted briefly Friday when the brother one of his 77 victims hurled a shoe at the confessed mass killer and yelled, "Go to hell," before being escorted from the court room, police and witnesses said.

It was the first outburst from the normally subdued crowd watching the terror trial in Oslo's district court since the proceedings began in mid-April.
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Throwing of shoes to insult someone has long been a form of protest in many countries, but the practice gained widespread attention when an Iraqi threw his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush at a televised news conference in Baghdad in 2008 during the Iraq war.

Police didn't identify the shoe-thrower in Oslo but said he was the brother of one of the victims.
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OMGosh!  How horrific!   ::MonkeyNoNo::


http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/15/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/?hpt=wo_c2
Man sets himself on fire outside Breivik trial court in Norway
May 15, 2012

(CNN) -- A man set himself on fire Tuesday outside the court in Norway's capital, Oslo, where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial over terrorist attacks last summer that killed 77 people.

"We don't know much about his motives, but he set himself alight outside the courthouse. Police were quick to put the fire out, and he has now been taken to hospital," Unni Groendal, head of media for Oslo police, told CNN.

The man, whose identity is not known, was given first aid treatment on site, according to police.

He did not try to force his way through the cordon outside the district courthouse as some reports have suggested, police said.
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Video posted on the VG website shows the man running toward the court building with his hat and jacket on fire. Police officers then pull off his clothing and try to extinguish the flames as he lies on the ground.

The area has been cordoned off, police told CNN.

The incident happened about 1:45 p.m. local time (7:45 a.m. ET), according to Norwegian TV channel TV2.
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What was the purpose of setting yourself on fire except to show that you're as nutty as the defendant?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18068823
Breivik trial: Utoeya survivor heard 'worst screaming'
May 15, 2012

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Barricades

Earlier the court heard from Ms Svendsen, 17, who had adjusted her chair away from Breivik as she began her testimony.

She told how after she had been shot in the arm she ran through a field of tents. "It was perhaps the worst screaming I've ever heard" she told the court.

She described removing her jacket and seeing a hole in her arm. A first aider then led her into a building known as the school house, she said.
grabbed the door handle and how she was convinced he would kill them all. People later hid under beds as Breivik shot at them through the windows, she told the court.

Another witness, first aider Even Andre Kleppen, told how he brought a group of people to the school house to shelter.

They barricaded the windows and doors. He then watched through the glass in the front door as Breivik calmly walked towards it and tried to shoot his way in, he said.

All 47 people who hid in the school house survived.
Firecrackers

The Oslo court also heard from survivor Ina Rangoenes Libak, who was shot four times.

She told the court that when she first heard the shots, she thought they were firecrackers.

When she realised what was happening, she and two others hid behind a piano in the cafe she was working in.

When shot in the arms she explained that she thought she could survive; when hit in the jaw she thought that was more serious; when realising she had been shot in the chest, she told the court: "That you die from."

Showing the court a scar on her arm, she explained that she lost feeling in both her arms when she was hit.

She ran away down a corridor, and told the court she was thinking: "this is what it's like to die, I'm dying."

Outside the building, she and others tried to use rocks to stem the bleeding. While they helped each other, they heard more shots, screams and then silence.

A friend said "they're dying, they're dying, we must help them", she told the court.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/21/anders-behring-breivik-survivors-recall-shooting-spree-the-water-was-red/
Anders Behring Breivik survivors recall shooting spree: ‘The water was red’
Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
May 21, 2012

OSLO — Young people wounded in Norway’s Utoeya massacre described in harrowing detail Monday how they were shot at and saw friends gunned down by Anders Behring Breivik in his shooting rampage last July.

“There, I saw all the dead. The water was red” with blood, 20-year-old Hussein Kazemi told an Oslo court, describing the moment when he climbed back on land after throwing himself into the icy water to escape the massacre on the island of Utoeya on July 22.
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http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/survivor-i-saw-breivik-kill-10-of-my-friends/116342/
Survivor: I Saw Breivik Kill 10 of My Friends
May 22, 2012

A Norwegian girl shot by extremist Anders Breivik watched as he killed her 10 friends at point blank range, a court has heard, reports Sky News.

Marte Fevang Smith, 18, said she was the only survivor of the group who hid at a remote location called Lovers' Path on Utoya Island.

The group had earlier called 999 to say there was shooting on the island but police told them they were mistaken and that it was a bombing in the capital Oslo.

Shortly after making the call, they were confronted by gunman Breivik wearing a police uniform.

"Breivik looked straight at me saying: 'Where is the gunman?' Then he started shooting and he hit me," Ms Smith said.

"A boy next to me stretched out his hand saying, 'I am dying.' But I did not manage to move."

Shot in the left side of the head, she remarkably survived the island massacre, which claimed the lives of 69 people.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/05/23/norway-shooting-massacre-survivor-calls-bullet-scars-the-price-for-democracy/
Norway shooting massacre survivor calls bullet scars ’the price for democracy’
Pierre-Henry Deshayes, Agence France-Presse
May 23, 2012

OSLO — A girl who at the age of just 14 survived Anders Behring Breivik’s shooting massacre on Utoeya island last year showed her large scars to an Oslo court Wednesday, describing them as her dues to democracy.

“I am not afraid to show my scars,” Ylva Helene Schwenke said, revealing a large red mark at the base of her neck.

“I feel like it’s a kind of victory. We have paid the price for democracy and we have won,” she added.

Many onlookers in room 250 of the Oslo district court silently showed their admiration for the now 15-year-old’s words, while Breivik looked on with the same smile that often lingers on his lips as witnesses contradict his anti-democratic ideology.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/24/world/europe/norway-breivik-trial/index.html
Lawyer: Norwegian killer vows not to appeal guilty verdict if found sane
May 24, 2012

(CNN) -- Anders Behring Breivik promised Thursday that he would not appeal if a court finds him sane and guilty in charges tied to the killings of 77 people last year in Norway, his lawyer said.

"There is absolutely no reason to appeal if I am declared criminally accountable," Breivik said in court, according to his attorney, Ivar Gron.

Gron said the promise that there won't be an appeal is contingent on Norwegian judges first making a determination on his client's mental state.
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http://now.msn.com/now/0601-breivik-gets-friends
Prison to hire play pals for Norwegian mass murderer
June 1, 2012

From what I remember reading, Breivik was upset about being found mentally incompetent and was more worried about getting psychiatric care then he was going to prison. Maybe the psychiatric care will be seem to be more of a prison for him especially since it doesn't lend a platform to his rants.  JMHO

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/21/norway-prosecutors-to-seek-psychiatric-care-not-prison-for-confessed-mass/
Norway prosecutors to seek psychiatric care, not prison for confessed mass killer Breivik
June 21, 2012

Sadly, this isn't surprising in such a liberal society.  And I'm afraid this type of thing is coming to the US.  All I can do is shake my head.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18547347
Defence lawyer argues Norway killer Breivik is sane
June 22, 2012

Anders Behring Breivik's defence have told his trial he should be considered sane and have sought his acquittal - a request regarded as a formality.

Lawyer Geir Lippestad told the court in Norway his client had been driven by extreme politics, not violence.

The prosecution has called for him to be considered insane.

Breivik, who admits he killed 77 people and injured 242 on 22 July, is due to address the court himself on the last scheduled day of the trial.

The request for acquittal is a formality because Breivik does not accept the charges of terrorism and premeditated murder against him.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18546623
Voices from Norway as Breivik trial ends
June 12, 2012

The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted killing 77 people, many of them teenagers, in two attacks in Norway last year, has ended and Judges will deliver their verdict in August.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/22/anders-behring-breivik-final-tirade?newsfeed=true
Anders Behring Breivik delivers final tirade to bemused court
Several people walk out of court as killer claims attacks were preventive measure to defend indigenous Norwegians
June 22, 2012

Survivors and bereaved families walked out of court on Friday as Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian confessed killer of 77 people, launched into a final tirade against multiculturalism.

In an hour-long salvo, which drew bemusement and laughter from some in the packed courtroom, he lashed out at perceived threats to "cultural conservatives" including Sex and the City and Norway's "asylum seeker" representation at the Eurovision song contest.

About a dozen people walked out of court as he began a speech which concluded with the demand that he be found innocent and acquitted.
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Earlier, parents, siblings and friends of the victims gave their final statements to the court. One interpreter sobbed into her microphone as Kirsti Løvlie told how she had lost her daughter Hanne.

"I am not going to be afraid of this man," Løvlie said. "I decided I would go to court. I felt I owed it to Hanne."

In a reversal of normal court convention, the prosecutors are demanding the Breivik be found insane and transferred to compulsory mental healthcare. Breivik claims his actions were "necessary" to prevent the Islamic colonisation of Norway, and has demanded he be found sane.

The defence lawyer Geir Lippestad evoked Breivik's "fundamental human right" to be considered sane. "The defendant has a radical political project. To make his acts something pathological and sick deprives him of his right to take responsibility for his own actions," he said.

"It is a reverse situation since they want him acquitted. I say that their plea should not be accepted, and Anders Behring Breivik should be treated as leniently as possible."

Norwegians will discover the outcome of the trial on 26 August, before which the trial's five judges must juggle the evidence from two competing psychiatric reports and 10 weeks of often contradictory evidence. The court has heard three weeks of evidence from psychiatrists alone, and at least seven different diagnoses.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18941991
Norway remembers Utoeya and Oslo victims, one year on
July 21, 2012

Norway is preparing to commemorate one year since 77 people were killed and 242 hurt in gun and bomb attacks in Oslo and on the island of Utoeya.

Church services, a concert and other events are being held around Norway.

PM Jens Stoltenberg will lay wreaths and is expected to be joined by hundreds of people on Utoeya, including the families of those who were killed.

Anders Behring Breivik, who has admitted carrying out the two attacks, remains on trial.

Most of the dead were young activists with the Labour Party who had been staying on Utoeya as part of a summer camp.
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http://world.time.com/2012/07/21/trying-to-forget-breivik-one-year-after-the-norway-massacre/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true
Trying to Forget Breivik: One Year After the Norway Massacre
The events in Aurora, Colorado appear to echo the meticulously planned crime that devastated Oslo, Norway almost a year before. The Norwegians are still trying to figure out how to deal with the legacy of that mass murder.
July 21, 2012

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443437504577542831397570576.html
Norway Remembers Victims On Anniversary of Attacks
Thousands Gather on Utoya Island and in Oslo to Commemorate Bombing, Shooting Spree That Left 77 Dead
July 22, 2012

OSLO—Thousands gathered Sunday in two locations that have become sacred ground in Norway to commemorate the anniversary of the worst terror attack the nation has witnessed on home soil.
About 1,500 victims and relatives visited Utoya Island to remember those killed by right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik on July 22, 2011, during a summer youth camp. At a key point in the ceremony, mothers, fathers and siblings of victims stood on a beach and slipped floating lanterns into the waves of Tyrifjorden lake, which surrounds the heart-shaped island.

Thousands more assembled in the streets of Oslo, 25 miles to the southeast, placing flowers outside Oslo Cathedral. Dignitaries, including Norway's king and queen, the prime minister and the leader of the Labor Party youth, the group Mr. Breivik targeted, attended a wreath-laying ceremony that was tightly policed
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norwegian-commission-criticizes-police-response-to-far-right-fanatics-bomb-and-gun-massacre/2012/08/13/1aac1d3a-e53c-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html
Norwegian commission criticizes police response to far-right fanatic’s bomb and gun massacre
August 13, 2012

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While noting that the attacks “may be the most shocking and incomprehensible acts ever experienced in Norway,” the 500-page report said the bombing “could have been prevented” if already adopted security measures had been implemented more effectively.

Breivik was able to park a van with a fertilizer bomb just outside the high-rise before he drove another car to the Labor Party’s youth camp on Utoya, unhindered.

The report said that a car bomb scenario “at the government complex and several coordinated attacks have been recurring scenarios in threat assessments as well as for safety analyses and exercise scenarios for many years.”

The police response was also slowed down by a series of blunders, including flaws in communication systems and the breakdown of an overloaded boat carrying a police anti-terror unit. Meanwhile, Norway’s only police helicopter was left unused, its crew on vacation. Breivik’s shooting spree lasted for more than one hour before he surrendered to police.

The report said a faster police response could have stopped Breivik’s shooting spree earlier, but recognized that “hardly anyone could have imagined” the attack on Utoya. “Sadly, however, after repeated school massacres in other countries, an armed desperado who shoots adolescents is indeed conceivable — also in Norway,” it said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norway-police-chief-resigns-after-harsh-criticism-against-response-to-bomb-and-gun-massacre/2012/08/17/2f2e39f0-e848-11e1-9739-eef99c5fb285_story.html
Norway police chief resigns after harsh criticism against response to bomb and gun massacre
August 18, 2012

OSLO, Norway — Norway’s chief of police has stepped down following scathing criticism of the police’s bungled response to a bomb and gun massacre that left 77 dead last year.

In a statement Friday, Oystein Maeland said he had quit his job with immediate effect because he felt he no longer had the backing of the government.
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http://www.rttnews.com/1950003/norway-s-police-chief-resigns-over-breivik-massacre-report.aspx?type=msgn&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=sitemap
Norway's Police Chief Resigns Over Breivik Massacre Report
August 17, 2012

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/18/world/europe/czech-arrest/index.html
Suspected Breivik sympathizer arrested, arms seized in Czech Republic
August 19, 2012

(CNN) -- Czech authorities announced Saturday that they have arrested a 29-year-old man who expressed admiration for Anders Behring Breivik, the self-declared ultranationalist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway last summer.

Video broadcast on Saturday by CT24, a public broadcast station in the Czech Republic, showed the handcuffed suspect flanked by police. Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, the unidentified man appears to be smiling during much of the videotaped walk.

Tomas Tuhy, a regional director of the Czech Republic Police, said authorities confiscated "police or prisoner" uniforms during their search of the suspect's apartment, as well as some police equipment. Pictures published on CT24's website showed explosive detonators, firearms, ammunition, and what appears to be a police uniform, that were seized as part of the investigation.

The man from Ostrava, the Czech Republic's third largest city located in the eastern part of the country near the Polish border, may have intended to pass himself off as a policeman when waging an attack, police said, as reported by the Czech News Agency.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/23/declare-breivik-sane-norway-poll?newsfeed=true
Anders Breivik should be declared sane, majority of Norwegians believe
Poll by Norway's state broadcaster shows three-quarters want Utøya island killer sent to prison, not secure psychiatric unit
August 23, 2012

The majority of Norwegians want the court to declare Anders Breivik sane when it delivers its verdict on Friday – coinciding with the wishes of the killer.

The Oslo district court will announce whether Breivik, who has admitted murdering 77 people in a killing spree on 22 July last year, should be held responsible and imprisoned for his crimes or whether he is insane and should be sent to a secure psychiatric institution for the rest of his life.

A survey conducted by public broadcaster NRK shows three in four Norwegians believe Breivik should be sent to prison. One in 10 believed the perpetrator of Norway's worst peacetime massacre could not be considered responsible for his actions.

Breivik has said if the court finds him insane it would be "a "fate worse than death". The credibility of his rightwing ideology and claim to be protecting Norway from a Muslim takeover would be dismissed as the rantings of a madman.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/norway/9494951/Court-should-show-courage-and-jail-Norway-killer-Anders-Breivik-say-victims-families.html
Court should show "courage" and jail Norway killer Anders Breivik, say victims' families
The judges ruling on Norwegian killer Anders Behring Breivik should show “courage” and declare the mass murderer sane so that he can be properly punished in jail, the friends and relatives of his victims have said.
August 23, 2012

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57499614/norway-court-anders-breivik-sane-going-to-prison/
Norway court: Anders Breivik sane, going to prison
August 24, 2012

(AP) OSLO, Norway - A Norwegian court sentenced Anders Behring Breivik to prison on Friday, denying prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman, not part of an anti-Muslim crusade.

Breivik smiled with apparent satisfaction when Judge Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen read the ruling, declaring him sane enough to be held criminally responsible and sentencing him to "preventive detention," which means it is unlikely he will ever be released.

The sentence brings a form of closure to Norway, which was shaken to its core by the bomb and gun attacks on July 22, 2011, because Breivik's lawyers said before the ruling that he would not appeal any ruling that did not declare him insane.

But it also means Breivik got what he wanted: a ruling that paints him as a political terrorist instead of a psychotic mass murderer. Since his arrest, Breivik has said the attacks were meant to draw attention to his extreme right-wing ideology and to inspire a multi-decade uprising by "militant nationalists" across Europe.
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I hope Anders Breivik is never, ever released into society.   ::MonkeyNoNo::

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/norway-killer-face-sentence-massacre-17070581
Breivik Won't Appeal Norway Massacre Sentence
August 24, 2012

 Accepting a sentence that could keep him imprisoned for life, Anders Behring Breivik regretted not killing more people in a bomb and gun massacre that left 77 people dead.

Breivik's gruesome and defiant statement Friday marked the end of a legal process that has haunted Norway for 13 months.

Prosecutors said they, too, would not appeal the ruling by Oslo's district court, which declared the right-wing extremist sane enough to be held criminally responsible for attacks "unparalleled in Norwegian history."

"Since I don't recognize the authority of the court I cannot legitimize the Oslo district court by accepting the verdict," Breivik said. "At the same time I cannot appeal the verdict, because by appealing it I would legitimize the court."

Then, Breivik said he wanted to issue an apology, but it wasn't for the victims, most of them teenagers gunned down in one of the worst peacetime shooting massacres in modern history.

"I wish to apologize to all militant nationalists that I wasn't able to execute more," Breivik said.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2012/0828/No-clear-winners-in-trial-of-Anders-Behring-Breivik
No clear winners in trial of Anders Behring Breivik

Breivik got 21 years, but was found sane as he wanted. Prosecutors saw him jailed, but mishandled the psychiatric findings. And now the prime minister is feeling heat for security's slow response.
August 28, 2012

http://gulfnews.com/opinions/columnists/let-s-give-breivik-the-sentence-of-silence-1.1067112
Let’s give Breivik the sentence of silence
Murderers only maintain their grip on the public imagination because ordinary people can’t get enough of them
August 29, 2012

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2197074/Anders-Breivik-hailed-inspirational-role-model-rightwing-British-extremists.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Killer Anders Breivik hailed as 'inspirational' and a 'role model' by rightwing British extremists

National Front and EDL members praise mass killer and petition for his release
September 2, 2012

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/breiviks-emails-published-in-new-book/story-fn3dxix6-1226464301726
Breivik's emails published in new book
September 3, 2012

A NORWEGIAN publisher has released a book of some of Anders Behring Breivik's email correspondence that show how he prepared for his July 2011 attacks which killed 77 people.

The correspondence supports an Oslo court verdict last month that presumed Breivik sane, the book's author Kjetil Stormark said.

Stormark, a journalist who has already published a book on the attacks that shook the Scandinavian nation, has gone through more than 7000 emails from four accounts used by the 33-year-old rightwing extremist before the massacre.
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The book, entitled The Private Emails of a Mass Killer, is based on correspondence obtained by hackers who accessed Breivik's accounts after the attacks and then gave them to Stormark so he would give them to police, which he did before writing his book.

Among the revelations are how Breivik raised money and acquired the equipment necessary for his attacks.
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Breivik's lawyers had protested against the publication of the book, saying it was a violation of his right to privacy.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/world/europe/norway-killer-breivik-complains-about-prison.html?_r=0
Life in Prison Suite Doesn’t Agree With a Mass Killer
November 9, 2012

Mr. Breivik, the Norwegian extremist convicted of the coldly premeditated murders of 77 people in 2011, is serving a 21-year sentence in a maximum-security prison outside Oslo. He is not satisfied with the accommodations, though: his three-cell suite with a television and exercise equipment, lodgings commensurate with Norway’s typically humane treatment of its convicts.

Addressing penal officials in a 27-page letter obtained by the Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang and confirmed by his lawyer, Mr. Breivik bemoaned the “800” strip searches he has undergone, for instance. Not one of them has shown him to be holding an object “between the buttocks,” he noted.

He would enjoy more social interaction, according to the letter, which says he is alone with his thoughts for “23 hours and 55 minutes” on a typical day and speaks only with his guards.

“Such treatment isn’t human,” said a lawyer for Mr. Breivik, Tord Jordet, according to Agence France-Presse.

Mr. Breivik is denied a computer or Internet access to prevent him from spreading his ideology of racial hatred, officials have said.

He expressed many other concerns in his letter, many of them prosaic. He must be supervised while shaving and brushing his teeth, he complained, and because of the “mental strain” this causes he is forced to limit those activities to once a week. Nor is he permitted to keep hydrating skin cream in his quarters, which are drab and without a view, he wrote. Switches for his lights and television are outside his suite of cells, obliging him to summon guards to turn them on and off.

Mr. Breivik dislikes handcuffs, too, because the steel edges cut into his wrists, and he dreads putting them on for each trip outside his cell, Verdens Gang reported. Without a thermos, his coffee frequently goes cold, according to news media reports.

Furthermore, he wrote, his phone calls and mail are unfairly censored. “His freedom of speech is being violated,” Mr. Jordet said.

Only correspondence from “New Testament Christians and other people who do not like me” has reached him in recent months, Mr. Breivik wrote.
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http://nation.time.com/2013/02/27/the-danger-of-the-lone-wolf-terrrorist/
The Danger of the Lone-Wolf Terrorist
February 27, 2013

Some say that a new era in terrorism is emerging, with the “lone wolf” terrorist front and center. From Anders Breivik in Norway, who murdered scores of young people in a bombing and mass-shooting attack, to Nidal Malik Hasan in the United States, who killed many of his fellow soldiers after opening fire at a military base, lone wolves have recently demonstrated that they can be as dangerous as organized terrorist groups.

Is this a new threat the nation and the world should fret over? Jeffrey D. Simon is a terror expert with 25 years’ experience in the field, including a stint at the Rand Corp. He addresses the issue in his new book, Lone Wolf Terrorism: Understanding the Growing Threat. Battleland conducted this email chat with him Monday.
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http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/03/28/musical-inspired-by-norway-massacre-to-open-in-u-k/?xid=gonewsedit&google_editors_picks=true
Musical Inspired by Norway Massacre to Open in U.K.
March 28, 2013

A new musical stage show inspired by the atrocities carried out by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Breivik is to open in the U.K. this summer.

David Greig wrote The Events to explore why certain societies respond differently to tragedies. The acclaimed Scottish playwright visited Utøya Island and Oslo three months after lone gunman Breivik slaughtered 77 people there on July 22, 2011.
“I was most interested in how Norwegian society was feeling,” Greig told the Guardian. “Oslo is not a huge city and everybody pretty much knows everybody else, so almost everyone we spoke to had been affected.

“Some people asked us not to write or talk about Breivik. I am not at all certain whether we give him a victory by ignoring him or trying to understand him. That is what I wanted to question.”

The Events, which opens at Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, will be set in Scotland and centers on a female character who is coping with the aftermath of a tragedy, according to Global Post. Breivik will not be mentioned by name at any point.
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http://news.sky.com/story/1102169/mass-murderer-breivik-rejects-inheritance?f=ob
Mass Murderer Breivik Rejects Inheritance
The Norwegian government would have used the money to compensate the families of Anders Breivik's 77 victims.
June 11, 2013

Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has renounced an inheritance from his mother to avoid it going to the state which wants to compensate his victims' families, his lawyer said.

"It's surely one of the reasons behind his decision," lawyer Tor Jordet said, confirming a tabloid report which revealed Breivik's decision.

The government would have claimed the money to pay damages awarded to the families of his 77 victims by the Oslo court that sentenced Breivik to 21 years in jail in August last year.

During his trial, it emerged that Breivik, 34, had cheated to avoid paying income taxes to a state that he vehemently opposed.

His mother died in March. The exact amount of the inheritance is not known but her apartment was put up for sale on Tuesday for around 3.7 million kroner (£412,903).

Mr Jordet said the right-wing extremist had rejected his share of the inheritance before his mother died. It is expected to go to Breivik's half-sister and to charity.

Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, in a gun rampage at a Labour party youth camp on July 22, 2011, after setting off a massive bomb outside the main government building in Oslo, killing eight.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/31/us-norway-breivik-idUSBRE99U11M20131031
Cold killer Breivik said sorry to mother for ruining her life

(Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who refused to show remorse for killing 77 people in 2011, hugged his mother and apologized for ruining her life before she died of cancer this year, according to a new biography.

"The Mother", based on hours of conversations with Wenche Behring Breivik by journalist Marit Christensen and published on Thursday, says she once described herself as the world's "saddest mother" who both hated and loved her son.

She had no inkling that he was planning the attacks on July 22, 2011, cooking him a dinner of spaghetti that got cold as she waited in vain for his return and watched the news of bombings and shootings by an unknown killer.

She broke down in tears when the police came to her house that night to say Anders Breivik was to blame for the massacre - a bombing in Oslo that killed 8 and a shooting rampage on a nearby island that killed 69, many of them teenagers.

Breivik, a right-wing anti-Islamic fanatic now aged 34, is serving Norway's maximum sentence in jail for the attacks, which were aimed at the Labour-led government and its youth wing.

A few days before Wenche Breivik died of cancer in March, she was taken by ambulance to visit her son in jail.

SORRY

Glass divided them on previous visits but this time Anders Breivik was allowed out. Still in handcuffs, he put his arms over and around his mother in a hug. "Sorry that I have ruined your life," he whispered, the book said.

By contrast, Breivik showed no compassion for his victims, saying in court that he would do it all over again if he had the chance. His father, a retired Norwegian diplomat, said after the killings that he wished Anders had never been born.

"I hate him," Wenche Breivik said of her son after days spent recovering from the shock of the killings in a psychiatric hospital, the book says. Afterwards, she felt guilt and feared that she could be killed in a revenge attack.
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A year after the killings she considered - but did not make - an appeal, to say: "Dear fellow citizens, he who caused the tragedy also struck me. If I go out, someone will shoot me! I am the saddest mother in the world today."

"(I) have been terribly sad and cried a lot. In addition to the grief of losing a son the sense of guilt weighs heavily on me. It would be easier to bear if he was dead ... his punishment is also my punishment."

http://www.heraldonline.com/news/nation-world/world/article72811442.html
Norwegian court rules mass killer Breivik's rights violated
April 20, 2016

STOCKHOLM
A Norwegian court has ruled that right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's human rights have been violated during his imprisonment for terrorism and mass murder.

The Oslo district court side says the prison conditions breached an article in the European Convention on Human Rights prohibiting inhuman and degrading treatment.

The court dismissed Breivik's claim that the government had also violated his right to respect for private and family life.

The verdict has already been made. See above article.   ::MonkeyNoNo::



https://www.rt.com/news/340356-breivik-verdict-playstation-torture/
Verdict due in ‘Playstation 2 is torture’ trial for Norwegian terrorist Breivik
April 20, 2016

Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik will find out today if a judge believes that having an older version of the Playstation video game console constitutes “inhumane” treatment and torture.
A court in the Scandinavian country will deliver a verdict on claims by peacetime Europe’s worst mass killer that his confinement violates the European Convention on Human Rights.

Doctors and psychiatrists have dismissed his claims of deteriorating health in his confinement, seeing no major change in his condition.

Authorities insist his isolation is due to his extreme danger and as a measure to prevent any new attacks, although the conditions are still much better than how the US and other countries treat the terrorists they imprison.

The trial, which is being held in the Skien prison gym, revealed that Breivik has three cells to himself - one for living, one for studying, and one for exercise - and they are filled with amenities such as a TV, DVD player, the torturously-old Playstation 2 console, a typewriter, books, and newspapers.

The Oslo native killed 77 people in twin attacks on July 22, 2011. He first detonated a car bomb in the capital city, claiming eight lives, and then went to a Workers Youth League summer camp on Utoya Island where he shot 69 people dead, mostly young and left wing.

Breivik claims he brought this lawsuit because his forced separation from other prisoners and controlled access to visitors and correspondence is having a negative effect on his health.

Breivik’s lawyer Øystein Storrvik said Wednesday’s verdict is hugely important since his client will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars, assuming his Nazi Party doesn’t regain power in Europe and let him out.

The 37 year old is currently serving a 21-year sentence, which can be extended if he is still considered dangerous. The mass murderer claimed during this new trial that he is now a Nazi who has renounced violence and compared himself to Nelson Mandela

The verdict is due at 1 p.m. GMT. Breivik’s lawyer has warned if the matter is not resolved, it will be brought to the European Court of Human Rights.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0420/783103-anders-breivik-norway/
Breivik wins case against Norway for 'inhuman' treatment
April 20, 2016

The court "concluded that the prison conditions constitute inhuman treatment", noting that the rightwing extremist had been held in isolation for almost five years.

In her ruling, judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said: "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society.

"This applies no matter what - also in the treatment of terrorists and killers,".

The ruling also said the Norwegian state had not violated Breivik's right to a private life and a family life.

Breivik took Norwegian authorities to court, accusing them of inhuman and degrading treatment of him in prison in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

He killed 77 people in July 2011 and is serving Norway's maximum sentence of 21 years, with the possibility of extensions.

In 2011 Breivik killed eight people with a bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69 people, many of them teenage members of the then ruling Labour Party, at a gathering on an island nearby.