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Norway attacks suspect's hearing closed to public
Beginning of Story Content A judge has decided to hold the arraignment behind closed doors for Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man accused in the twin bombing and shooting in the Oslo area that killed 93 people 鈥�even though he had asked to explain his motives to the public. Prosecutors had asked before the hearing started in Oslo District Court Monday that it be closed to the media and public. It's clear from a manifesto that Breivik published online describing the planning and motivation of the attacks that he is looking for a platform to air his belief that Europe must be saved from Muslim colonization. Breivik confessed to the bombing in downtown Oslo and shooting at a youth camp outside the capital on Friday, and had asked that he be allowed to explain his motives at the arraignment. Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that Breivik has requested to appear in a uniform during the hearing, but didn't know what kind. The search for victims continues and police have not released their names. But Crown Princess Mette-Marit's stepbrother, an off-duty police officer, was among the 86 people killed when a gunman opened fire at a youth camp near Oslo, Norway's royal court. Court spokeswoman Marianne Hagen says Trond Berntsen was the son of Mette-Marit's stepfather, who died in 2008. Also Monday, French gendarmes were searching the Cournanel house of Breivik's father, Jens Breivik. The regional gendarme service would not comment on the search operation. News reports have said Jens Breivik has not been in touch with his son in many years. <a href="http://www.nikefun.com/Handbags-Coach-handbags-f2-8.html"><strong>Coach Handbags</strong></a> NATO bombing 'tipped the scales' As developments in the deadly twin attacks continue to unfold, the shocking revelations in Anders Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto provide insight into the man who says the first step in his journey to becoming a mass killer began when he was a boy, during the first Gulf War when a Muslim friend cheered at reports of missile attacks against American forces. "I was completely ignorant at the time and apolitical, but his total lack of respect for my culture [and Western culture in general] actually sparked my interest and passion for it," the suspect in Norway's bombing and mass shooting wrote. Breivik said it was the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999 that "tipped the scales" for him because he sympathized with Serbia's crackdown on ethnic Albanian Muslims in Kosovo. A year later he said he realized that what he called the "Islamization of Europe" couldn't be stopped by peaceful means. Anders Behring Breivik, seen in a picture posted on a Norwegian website, is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Monday. (Reuters) Police and Breivik's lawyer say he has confessed to, but denied criminal responsibility for, Friday's bombing at government headquarters in Oslo and the mass killing later that day at an island summer camp organized by the youth wing of the ruling Labour Party. At least 93 people were killed in the attacks. Breivik's manifesto chronicled events that deepened his contempt for Muslims and "Marxists" he blamed for making Europe multicultural. He suggested his friends didn't even know what he was up to, and comments from several people who had contact with the quiet blond man suggest he was right. Jack Levin, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who has written a number of books on mass murderers, said the manifesto helps Breivik show himself as more human. "It makes the killer look like a victim rather than a villain," Levin said. From September 2009 through October 2010, Breivik posted more than 70 times on Dokument.no, a Norwegian site with critical views on Islam and immigration. In one comment, he entertained the idea of a European movement along the lines of the Tea Party movement in the United States. In December of 2009, Breivik showed up at a meeting organized by the website's staff. "He was a bit strange. As one could see from his postings, he had obviously read a lot but not really digesting it," said Hans Rustad, the editor of the website. However, Rustad said, he "hadn't the faintest idea" about Breivik's <a href="http://www.nikefun.com/Brand-AAA-handbags-LV-AAA-handbags-f2-181-c3-897.html"><strong>LV Handbags, purses</strong></a> murderous plans. "Other people have the same views on the net and they don't go out and become mass murderers, so how can you tell?" Rustad told The Associated Press. In the document, Breivik styles himself as a Christian conservative, patriot and nationalist. He looks down on neo-Nazis as "underprivileged racist skinheads with a short temper." Manifesto modelled after Unabomber writings Part of Breivik's manifesto was taken almost word for word from the first few pages of the anti-technology manifesto written by "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, the American serving a life sentence in federal prison for mail bombings that killed three people and injured 23 others across the U.S. from the 1970s to the 1990s. Breivik did not cite Kaczynski, though he did for many other people whose writings he used. Breivik's manifesto reads: "One of the most widespread manifestations of the craziness of our world is multiculturalism, so a discussion of the psychology of multiculturalists can serve as an introduction to the discussion of the problems of Western Europe in general." Breivik called his upbringing in a middle-class home in Oslo privileged even though his parents divorced when he was a year old and he lost contact with his father in his teens. His parents split <a href="http://www.nikefun.com/Handbags--f2-147.html"><strong>Polo Purses</strong></a> when the family lived in London, where Jens Breivik was a diplomat at the Norwegian Embassy in London. A spokesman for the embassy, Stein Iversen, confirmed that Breivik had been employed at the embassy in the late 1970s, but wouldn't discuss his relationship with the Oslo suspect. Anders Breivik said both parents supported Norway's centre-left Labour Party, which he viewed as infiltrated by Marxists. His mother won a custody battle, but Breivik said he regularly visited his father and his new wife in France, where they lived, until his father cut off contact when Breivik was 15. The father told Norwegian newspaper VG that they lost touch in 1995, but that it was his son who wanted to cut off contact. Breivik's mother lives in an ivy-covered brick apartment building in western Oslo, currently protected by police. Neighbours said they hadn't seen her since a few days before the shooting. Police said they've spoken to her and that she didn't know of her son's plans. In his manifesto, Breivik said he had no negative experiences from his childhood, though he had issues with his mother being a "moderate feminist." "I do not approve of the super-liberal, matriarchal upbringing though as it completely lacked discipline and has contributed to feminize me to a certain degree," he said. Blames left-wing parties In internet postings attributed to Breivik on Norwegian websites, Breivik blamed Europe's left-wing parties for destroying the continent's Christian heritage by allowing mass immigration of Muslims. He said he came in contact with like-minded individuals across Europe, and together they formed a military order inspired by the Knights Templar crusaders. Their goal was to seize power in Europe by 2083 in a string of coups d'etat. Norwegian police couldn't say whether the group existed. Two European security officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation said they were familiar with increased internet chatter from individuals claiming they belonged to a group called the new Knights Templar. 'He was very quiet, almost shy. He seemed like a well-educated man. He was very well-dressed and very polite.' 鈥�Joeran Kallmyr, Oslo vice-mayor Breivik said he also tried to get engaged in domestic politics, in the Progress Party, an a populist opposition party which calls for stricter immigration controls. He claims he was a popular party member who almost got elected to the Oslo city council seven years ago. "That's just something he imagined," said Joeran Kallmyr, whom Breivik described as his "rival" in the party. Used companies to get loans to fund attacks Breivik attended only five or six party meetings during those two years and left the party quietly, said Kallmyr, now a vice mayor of Oslo. "He was very quiet, almost shy. He seemed like a well-educated man. He was very well-dressed and very polite. He wore a tie all the time," Kallmyr said. "I couldn't see any signs that he was coming apart." Kallmyr said he only had one conversation with Breivik, a forgettable chat about Breivik's business. According to Breivik's manifesto, he was the director of Anders Behring Breivik ENK at the time, a business he describes as a "front" and a "milking cow" to finance "resistance/liberation related military <a href="http://mattresspro.mattresshotline.com/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=2"><strong>Hold the Yangshan [Hebei Baoding] tourism, holding the Yangshan ...</strong></a> operations." He describes elsewhere in the document how he used his own companies to secure bank loans and credit to fund his attack. Breivik, who detailed his preparations for the attacks in eerie detail, also anticipated the hostility he would face, even from his friends and family, if he survived his "mission" and was brought to trial. Levin said that part could be part of the motivation for the manifesto. "He talks about visiting prostitutes and taking steroids. Why would he say such negative things about himself? I think what he's doing is 鈥�this humanizes him," Levin said. "He's trying to tell people he's not a monster, that he's a person with frailties and weaknesses like everybody else." End of Story Content Back to accessibility links
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