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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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FILE - This is a Monday, Feb. 6, 2012 file photo of Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, as arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway. Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday March 7, 2012 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. (AP Photo/Heiko Junge, Scanpix Norway, File)

Terror indictment unveiled for Norway massacre

Bjorn H. Amland The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 10:35am

OSLO, Norway -- 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.

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Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing extremist who confessed to a bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people on July 22, 2011, arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. About 100 survivors and relatives of the victims of the July 22 massacre attended the hearing in Oslo's district court - expected to decide to keep Breivik in jail until his trial begins in April. (AP Photo/Lise Aserud, Scanpix Norway)

Norway mass killer demands medal at court hearing

Bjoern H. Amland The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 6, 2012 - 10:43am

OSLO, Norway -- The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre that Norway has ever seen told a court Monday that he deserved a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.

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Norwegian Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Jens Stoltenberg, center, sits next to Bishop Ole Christian Kvarme, left, as they take part in a memorial service at Central Jamaat Ahle Sunnat mosque in Oslo, Friday July 29, 2011. Speaking at the service, Stoltenberg said, "Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil,". "We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

A week later, Norway mourns 76 victims of massacre

Bjoern H. Amland, IAN MacDOUGALL The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, July 29, 2011 - 10:59am

OSLO, Norway -- Norway honored the memory of 76 people killed in its worst peacetime massacre, with the prime minister urging the nation on Friday to unite around its core values of democracy and peace.

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Work is under way throughout the government quarters in the centre of Oslo Thursday July 28, 2011. The buildings suffered extensive damage during last Friday's bomb attack. Norwegian police said Thursday they will again interrogate the suspect in last week's bombing and shooting massacre that killed at least 76 people, seeking to ensure that there are no more attacks on the horizon. (AP Photo/Aleksander Andersen/Scanpix Norway)

Security chief: Norway attacks work of lone man

Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 9:52am

OSLO, Norway -- The Norwegian man who killed 76 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre is a sociopath who acted without accomplices or a network of like-minded right-wing extremists, and kept his plans to himself for more than a decade, a top security official said Thursday.

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Norway's Prime minister Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference in Oslo, Norway, Wednesday, July 27, 2011. Norway's prime minister struck a defiant tone Wednesday, saying the response to twin attacks that have rocked his country will be "more democracy." (AP Photo/Scanpix, Berit Roald)

Norway PM: Attacks response to be 'more democracy'

IAN MacDOUGALL, Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 10:15am

OSLO, Norway -- Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg vowed Wednesday that the twin terror attacks that have stunned his country will not intimidate Norway and that his countrymen will fight back with "more democracy."

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(FERDINAND OSTROP/The Associated Press) People place candles in Utvica near Sundvollen in front of Utoya island, near Oslo, Norway, on Tuesday, in memory of the eight people killed in Friday’s blast in Oslo and the 68 who died in the shooting.

Norway tragedy hits home for Brigham City couple

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:39pm

BRIGHAM CITY -- Jack and Marge Small's pleasant memories of attending a family reunion in Norway earlier this month were replaced with fear this weekend when they heard a political extremist had killed more than 70 people in Oslo and at a youth camp on the island of Utoya.

"Our first concern was for two cousins," Marge Small told the Standard-Examiner on Tuesday.

"We knew that Haakon (Bjar) worked for the government in Oslo. Another cousin, a Lutheran minister, Jon Syver, spoke at youth camps."

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Two young women stand in silence after placing flower near Sundvollen close to the Utoya island, near Oslo, Norway, Tuesday, July 26, 2011, where a gunman Anders Behring Breivik killed at least 68 people. The defense lawyer for the man who confessed to the mass killings of government workers and Labor Party youth in Norway told The Associated Press on Tuesday that there's no way his client will walk free, saying Anders Behring Breivik's rampage was absurd and horrible and he's likely insane. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)

Lawyer for Norway suspect says he's likely insane

Bjoern H. Amland, Karl Ritter The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 10:06am

OSLO, Norway -- The man who confessed to the massacre that has rocked Norway is unaware of the impact of the attacks and asked his defense counsel how many people he had killed, the lawyer told The Associated Press on Tuesday, adding that his client is likely insane.

That chilling question furthers the emerging portrait of Anders Behring Breivik: The judge in his case described him as very calm, a police officer said he was merciless in his spree, and his lawyer added Tuesday that he was very cold, but saw himself as a savior.

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