Norway killer 'a lone-wolf sociopath'
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July 29, 2011, Friday
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THE Norwegian right-wing extremist who allegedly killed 76 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre shooting appears to be a lone-wolf sociopath who kept his plans to himself for more than a decade, according to a top security official yesterday.
Janne Kristiansen, director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, said: "It is a unique case. It is a unique person. He is total evil."
Anders Behring Breivik claims he carried out the July 22 attacks as a crusader plotting a revolution against a multicultural Europe. He claimed there are other cells ready to strike.
But investigators have found no signs of a larger conspiracy, though it is too early to rule it out completely, according to Kristiansen.
She said: "On the information we have so far, and I emphasize so far, we have no indication he was part of a network or had any accomplices, or that there are other cells."
She said Breivik does not appear to have shared his plot with anyone, and lived a lawful and moderate life before carrying out the attacks with "total precision."
Breivik has admitted he set off a car bomb in the government district of Oslo, killing at least eight people, then drove several kilometers northwest of the Norwegian capital to an island where the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party was holding its annual summer camp.
He arrived at Utoya island posing as a police officer, and opened fire on scores of unsuspecting youths, executing them one after another as they tried to flee. Sixty-eight people died, many of them teenagers.
Kristiansen said Breivik's case presents a new challenge for security services, different from a "solo terrorist" who receives training and instructions from a terror network and is then left to pick out a target and attack it on his own.
Breivik appears to be a true lone wolf, who conceived and executed his plot without help or coordination from anyone.
"This is a totally different challenge," Kristiansen said. "This is all in his mind."
Judging by a manifesto he released just before the attacks, he started "preparing himself to do something big, shocking and spectacular" some 10 to 12 years ago, she said.
The 1,500-word document calls for a revolution that will culminate in the expulsion of Muslims from Europe and the elimination of the "cultural Marxist/multiculturalist" politics that Breivik complains facilitated the immigration of Muslims to European countries.
At his arraignment on Monday, he took responsibility for both attacks but pleaded not guilty because he believes he is in state of war, his defense lawyer Geir Lippestad said.
Janne Kristiansen, director of the Norwegian Police Security Service, said: "It is a unique case. It is a unique person. He is total evil."
Anders Behring Breivik claims he carried out the July 22 attacks as a crusader plotting a revolution against a multicultural Europe. He claimed there are other cells ready to strike.
But investigators have found no signs of a larger conspiracy, though it is too early to rule it out completely, according to Kristiansen.
She said: "On the information we have so far, and I emphasize so far, we have no indication he was part of a network or had any accomplices, or that there are other cells."
She said Breivik does not appear to have shared his plot with anyone, and lived a lawful and moderate life before carrying out the attacks with "total precision."
Breivik has admitted he set off a car bomb in the government district of Oslo, killing at least eight people, then drove several kilometers northwest of the Norwegian capital to an island where the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party was holding its annual summer camp.
He arrived at Utoya island posing as a police officer, and opened fire on scores of unsuspecting youths, executing them one after another as they tried to flee. Sixty-eight people died, many of them teenagers.
Kristiansen said Breivik's case presents a new challenge for security services, different from a "solo terrorist" who receives training and instructions from a terror network and is then left to pick out a target and attack it on his own.
Breivik appears to be a true lone wolf, who conceived and executed his plot without help or coordination from anyone.
"This is a totally different challenge," Kristiansen said. "This is all in his mind."
Judging by a manifesto he released just before the attacks, he started "preparing himself to do something big, shocking and spectacular" some 10 to 12 years ago, she said.
The 1,500-word document calls for a revolution that will culminate in the expulsion of Muslims from Europe and the elimination of the "cultural Marxist/multiculturalist" politics that Breivik complains facilitated the immigration of Muslims to European countries.
At his arraignment on Monday, he took responsibility for both attacks but pleaded not guilty because he believes he is in state of war, his defense lawyer Geir Lippestad said.
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