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| Norway killer says he planned three bombs |
| 2012-04-20 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] The gunman behind Norway's massacres told court on Thursday he had planned an even bigger killing spree, with three car booms and more shootings at targets across Oslo. Anders Behring Breivik also said he had once spent a year playing video games, including role-playing online game "World of Warcraft", and a shooting game to prepare for what he believed would be a suicide mission. The far-right jihad boy also testified he had named his murder weapons after terms from Norse mythology, calling his rifle "Gungnir" after Odin's magical spear and his Glock pistol "Mjoelner" after Thor's hammer. Breivik is on trial for July 22 twin attacks, when he killed eight people with a van-bomb targeting buildings housing the offices of Labour Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was not present at the time. He then travelled to Utoeya island where, dressed as a police officer, for more than one hour he methodically shot at hundreds of people at a Labour Party youth summer camp, taking 69 lives, mostly teenagers. On Thursday, on the fourth day of his trial, the 33-year-old said that originally "the plan was three car booms followed by a shooting", describing the initial plan as a "very large operation." He said he had considered placing a bomb near Labour Party headquarters. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 This is the phase when he's doing two things -- telling the investigators everything he thinks they want to hear, and telling them things to fluff up his self-image. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2012-04-20 10:10 |
| #3 #2 I wish it was funny. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2012-04-20 09:33 |
| #2 Why? I think we should try and get a statue of him next to Che and Nelson Mandela and other fighters for aboriginal rights and freedoms... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2012-04-20 07:58 |
| #1 This fellow needs a very painful, fully documented and possibly televised end. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2012-04-20 05:52 |