Norway Massacre Suspect Reveals All But Motive

Anders Behring Breivik has admitted to killing 77 Norwegians during a bombing and shooting massacre in July. Investigators say he is almost overly eager to talk. Still, after 100 hours of questioning, they have seen no signs of remorse and have little information about what really motivated him to kill.

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Breivik told Rachlew and Hatlo that it was difficult for him to shoot the first four victims. But then the music he was listening to on headphones, “Lux Aeterna” from “Lord of the Rings,” gave him a boost and made him feel euphoric. [so did the music contribute to this and not “right-winged, christianity” as the media exclaimed at first?] And then there were the drugs, the amphetamines.

[is he insane much like Jared Loughner?] The only problem is that the things he says are simply incomprehensible. “I can’t follow him,” Lippestad (Breivik lawyer) admits.

[again, very similar to Loughner] The youth welfare office felt that the circumstances were sufficiently alarming to warrant having a psychologist examine the child. The psychologist apparently then went on wrote two reports, in which he concluded that “the child Anders Breivik is at risk for emotional damage.” … Likewise, in his so-called manifesto, the more than 1,000-page document testifying to his lunacy, he writes that he probably “had too many freedoms” and that he was just “one of those privileged children” from the affluent western part of Oslo.

[the exact time psycology says schizophrenia is most likely to occur] What’s more, there is a second turning point in Breivik’s life that has yet to be fully explained. “An incident during his adolescence,” Hatlo says.
After breaking off all contact with his father at 15, Breivik became increasingly withdrawn. In a 1995 entry in his school yearbook, he is described in the following way: “Anders was a member of the ‘gang,’ but then he suddenly stopped being friends with the others.” Breivik reportedly also hit the principal on one occasion and, according to the yearbook, he often did “unpredictable, stupid things,” and he yearned to have a perfect body.

[once again, they can’t resist trying to smear others for a mad-mans crimes] Some psychologists have concluded that Breivik is trying to create the impression that he developed normally and had a normal childhood. In doing so, they explain, he is trying to portray his deliberate and calculated deed as the political beacon of hope he considers it to be, to depict his massacre as an act necessary for ensuring the continued survival of Christian civilization….
Breivik repeatedly tried to fit somewhere to fit in, first in the hip-hop scene and then in the graffiti scene. But nothing ever came of it, investigators say.
A video of Breivik recently surfaced that was taken at a party held by Norway’s right-wing Progress Party, which he was a member of for a few years. It shows him sitting alone on a sofa and looking a little pudgy, wearing oddly tinted glasses and smoking, while those around him are dancing and howling uncontrollably. When girls start taking their clothes off, he smiles sheepishly at the camera for a moment before turning away and taking a drag on his cigarette.