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Defendant Anders Behring Breivik, centre, seen during the fourth day of proceedings in court in Oslo, Norway, Thursday April 19, 2012. 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. (AP Photo / Erlend Aas)

Norway gunman planned to kill more people

Lennart Simonsson Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Last updated Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 2:07pm

OSLO, Norway -- Anders Behring Breivik on Thursday told a court in chilling detail about how he had planned to kill even more people than the 77 who died in the two attacks he has confessed to having carried out last year.

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Defendant Anders Behring Breivik with his lawyer Geir Lippestad , left, during the third day of proceedings in courtroom 250 in the courthouse in Oslo Wednesday April 18, 2012. Confessed mass killer Breivik on Wednesday called Norway's prison terms "pathetic" and said the death penalty or an acquittal were the "only logical outcomes" for his massacre of 77 people. (AP Photo/ Heiko Junge, Pool)

Norway killer wants freedom or death

Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 2:08pm

OSLO, Norway -- The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II.

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Accused Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik sits in the courtroom, in Oslo, Norway, Tuesday morning April 17, 2012. The anti-Muslim fanatic who admitted to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre is set to take the stand in his terror trial. Anders Behring Breivik will have 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. (AP Photo/Hakon Mosvold Larsen/Scanpix Norway, Pool)

Norway killer: 'I would have done it again'

Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 17, 2012 - 8:57am

OSLO, Norway -- Norwegian gunman Anders Behring Breivik insisted Tuesday he would massacre 77 people all over again, calling his July rampage the most "spectacular" attack 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. He claimed to be speaking as a commander of an anti-Islam militant group he called the Knights Templar -- a group that prosecutors say does not exist.

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Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik smiles in court to face terrorism and premeditated murder charges, Oslo, Norway, Monday, April 16, 2012. Breivik, who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre went on trial in Norway's capital Monday, defiantly rejecting the authority of the court. (AP Photo/Heiko Junge, Pool)

Norway mass killer claims self-defense

Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, April 16, 2012 - 9:18am

OSLO, Norway -- With a defiant closed-fist salute, a right-wing fanatic admitted Monday to a bomb-and-shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway but pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, saying he was acting in self-defense.

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