Norway top cop: Breivik lone wolf, "total evil"

Norwegian domestic intelligence chief Janne Kristiansen poses after an interview at the Police Security Service headquarters in Oslo July 27, 2011. / AFP/Getty Images

OSLO - The Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 76 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre appears to be a lone-wolf sociopath who kept his plans to himself for more than a decade, a top security official said Thursday.

"It's a unique case. It's unique person. He is total evil," Janne Kristiansen, the director of the Norwegian Police Security Service told The Associated Press.

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Anders Behring Breivik claims he carried out the July 22 attacks as part of a network of modern-day crusaders plotting a revolution against a multicultural Europe, and that there are other cells ready to strike.

But investigators have found no signs — before or after the attacks — of a larger conspiracy, though it's too early to rule it out completely, Kristiansen said.

"On the information we have so far, and I emphasize so far, we have no indication that he was part of a network or had any accomplices, or that there are other cells," Kristiansen told AP.

She said Breivik doesn't appear to have shared his plot with anyone, and lived a lawful and moderate life before carrying out the attacks with "total precision."

Breivik has admitted that he set off a car bomb in the government district of Oslo, killing at least eight people, then drove several miles (kilometers) northwest of the Norwegian capital to an island where the youth wing of the ruling Labor Party was holding its annual summer camp. He arrived at Utoya island posing as a police officer, then opened fire on scores of unsuspecting youth, executing them one after the other as they tried to flee into the water. Sixty-eight people died, many of them teenagers.

Kristiansen said that Breivik's case presents a new challenge for security services, different from a "solo terrorist" who receives training and instructions from a terror network and is then left to pick out a target and attack it on his own. Breivik appears to be a true lone wolf, who conceived and executed his plot without help or coordination from anyone.

"This is a totally different challenge," Kristiansen said. "This is all in his mind."

Judging by a manifesto he released just before the attacks, he started "preparing himself to do something big, shocking and spectacular" some 10-12 years ago, she said. The 1,500-document calls for a revolution that will culminate by 2083 in the expulsion of Muslims from Europe and the elimination of the "cultural Marxist/multiculturalist" politics that Breivik complains facilitated the immigration of Muslims to European countries.

At his arraignment on Monday, he took responsibility for both attacks but pleaded not guilty because he thinks he's in state of war, his defense lawyer Geir Lippestad said.

[T-smom]

Breivik a "lone wolf"??? I don't think so. He had help. Reportedly a substantial amount of money was added to Breiviks checking account $150,000. He hadn't been gainfully employed and his company is reportedly a shell so who sponsored him? Why isn't anyone investigating?

search and read:

"Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Man ..following the money trail"

[notyrants]

Ayn Rand libertarianism and right wing black and white thinking, synergistically combined have metastasized in the U.S. and the western world. They are a threat to all that is good. Christian fundies believe we are in a war of good vs. evil but have been deceived well enough and blinded such from seeing that they are fighting on behalf of evil.

[dustin93sc]

Abu Dhabi planted Anders in this terror situation for a massacre and government building bombing. They gain the advantage of revenge on the Wiki movement, threats against the Taliban, and intimidation of the West. A perfect move to drive-up the price for their gasoline, diesel, and natural gas.

[recoveringRepub]

Right wings are all evil. Jesus was a socialist. Satan loves capitalism which affords him the opportunity to invade the hearts of man for what God identifies as the root of all evil: MONEY!

[retiredgustav]

Amen! When Jesus cured the lepers I don't recall him asking for their insurance card.

[agnesdeo]

Do decides that he is "total evil"? If he lives in a society that practices "relativism" of norms/morals. Who decides that his actions are wrong. When you live in a society that declares that there are no moral absolutes. In other words, what was once wrong is now right, what once was evil is now good depending on the situation.

[agnesdeo]

Correction:WHO decides that he is "total evil"? If he lives in a society that practices "relativism" of norms/morals. Who decides that his actions are wrong. When you live in a society that declares that there are no moral absolutes. In other words, what was once wrong is now right, what once was evil is now good depending on the situation.

[slappy_mcjohnson]

What "moral absolutes" are you talking about, and how do you propose to choose whose to use?

[thomasmc1957]

"Total Evil"?

Good thing he's not in the USA, the Tea Party would nominate him for President!