Oslo, Norway Blast & Shootings-Anders Behring Breivik responsible

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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[KittyMom]

Can you say 'fruitcake'? 

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

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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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