Lawyer: Norway suspect hated Muslim influx
OSLO, Norway -- The man blamed for killing at least 93 people during terrorist attacks on the government headquarters and on an island retreat for young people wanted to trigger an anti-Muslim revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said yesterday.
A chief surgeon treating the wounded from Friday's mass shooting, meanwhile, said he believes the attacker used "dum-dum" bullets that cause massive internal injuries. The doctor told The Associated Press that the killer's chosen ammo "exploded inside the body."
The manifesto that Anders Behring Breivik, 32, published online ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on those "indigenous Europeans" he deemed had betrayed their heritage. The document said they would be punished for their "treasonous acts." Police were analyzing the approximately 1,500-page document, which they said was published Friday, shortly before the back-to-back bomb and gun attacks.
Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said his client wrote the document alone. But parts of it were taken almost word for word from the writings of "Una-bomber" Ted Kaczynski, who is serving a life sentence in federal prison in Colorado for mail bombs that killed three people and injured 23 others across the United States from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The passages copied by Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski's manifesto. Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists' "feelings of inferiority," mainly by substituting the words "multiculturalism" or "cultural Marxism" for "leftism." Breivik did not cite Kaczynski.
Police were investigating reports of a second assailant on the island, but the lawyer said Breivik claims he acted alone.
Breivik's treatise detailed plans to acquire firearms and explosives, and even appeared to describe a test explosion: "BOOM! The detonation was successful!!!" It ends with a note dated 12:51 p.m. on July 22: "I believe this will be my last entry."
That day, a bomb killed seven people in downtown Oslo and, about 90 minutes later, a gunman opened fire on about 600 young people at a retreat on Utoya Island. Police said that death toll rose by one yesterday to 86.
More than 90 others were wounded. People remain missing at both scenes. Police have not released the names of any victims.
Dr. Colin Poole, head of surgery at Ringriket Hospital northwest of Oslo, said the gunman used special bullets designed to disintegrate inside the body. Poole said surgeons treating 16 gunshot victims have recovered no full bullets.
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