Anders Behring Breivik trial: Norway killer wanted to ...
By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 06:23 EDT, 19 April 2012 | Updated: 20:18 EDT, 19 April 2012 Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik wanted to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island, he said. Breivik told his trial he planned to film the beheading and post the video on the internet - as well as kill all 600 people who were at the Labour Party's youth camp on July 22. But Brundtland had already left the area as the far-right fanatic began his shooting spree.
The revelation came as Breivik described how he became a deadly marksman by honing his product gun skills by playing the violent Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare computer game. The mass killer even bought a special gun sight used on the game - and attached it to the hunting rifle he used for his deadly rampage on a Norwegian island. Details of Breivik's fixation with computer gaming was revealed after he admitted taking a 'sabbatical' for a year during which he also played the fantasy game World of Warcraft.
In a further insight to Breivik's warped mind he revealed how he gave his hunting rifle, pistol and 'getaway' vehicle names taken from Norse mythology. During cross examination at Oslo District Court the 33-year-old continued to give evidence at a trial where he has admitted killing 77 people in Oslo on July 22, last year. Breivik killed 8 people in the city's Government district after leaving a 950kg van bomb before driving to Utoya island where he shot and killed 69 mainly young people attending a Labour party summer camp.
Breivik was asked about his interest in computer games and revealed that between the Summer of 2006 and December 2007 he took a 'sabbatical' from working and played computer games for around 16 hours a day. Initially he concentrated on playing the 'World of Warcraft' fantasy game online before turning to more violent forms of computer 'entertainment.' 'Some people take a year off playing golf,' he told the court.
'I wanted to take a year off to play World of Warcraft.It is not violent at all. It's just fantasy. It's a strategy game. 'During that year I played perhaps 16 hours a day and played an entire year. I was just playing and sleeping...it was a dream I had. 'Some people like to play golf, some like to sail, I played WOW.
It had nothing to do with 22/7.
' However Breivik then revealed he then turned to playing Call Of Duty and instead of socialising with any friends he had even spent last New Year's Eve on his computer. The game is described as a 'first person shooter video game' and Breivik admitted by using it he honed his product gun and targeting skills. Months later he would use those same 'skills' to kill 69 innocent people on the island of Utoya.
On the opening day of the trial prosecutors read the names of the dead on Utoya and revealed the gunshot wounds they received. Most of them had died after taking two or three shots - and sometimes more - directly to the head. Cross examined about the game Breivik told the court: 'The game teaches about target acquisition and you have to practice within a specific time.
It's a war simulator that shows you how to shoot at people. It helps you acquire experience of sights and targeting. The game uses a 'holographic sight' similar to the one that Breivik attached to his hunting rifle when he stalked his victims on the island with unerring accuracy.
In a chilling admission regarding the efficacy of the controversial computer game he added: ' You could give it your grandmother and she would be able to become a super marksman!' Breivik also admitted visiting an Oslo pistol club 25 time to hone his handgun shooting skills but said the game was a great help to him. ' I used a similar holographic aiming device (sight) at Utoya and the game is such a good war simulator is so good that it is used by armies all around the World.' Carnage: A housekeeping man lies injured in the road amid wreckage from the Oslo blast as emergency service personnel rush to help him A holographic weapon sight is a non-magnifying gun attachment allowing the user to look through a glass optical window and see his target image superimposed at a distance.
The sight provides a red circle image with a red dot inside the ring identifying the target. The court had heard earlier that Breivik had no military training having managed to 'dodge' his National Service by claiming he was the sole carer for his ageing mother. Breivik also told the court how he gave his weapons and 'getaway' vehicle names from Norse mythology - arguing that many soldiers around the world do the same thing.
His hunting rifle was called 'Gungnir' - which means the 'Spear of Odin' - and he had etched the name onto the weapon. His 9mm Glock pistol was similarly marked but took the name of 'Mjolnir' - which means 'Thor's Hammer.' Finally, the Fiat Duplo van he used to escape Oslo after the bombing and drive to Utoya was given the name 'Sleipnir.
' This refers to the mythological eight legged horse said to belong to Odin - the major Norse God who was also known as the 'Guide of Souls.' 'Etching the names onto product weapons is not new,' added Breivik. 'In fact, it is a great European tradition and lots of soldiers do it.
' Later Breivik told how his original plan had been to make three bombs and to target Government offices, the Royal Family and the Labour Party's offices. However, he had difficulty making more than one bomb so changed his plans. Breivik also claimed that he planned to capture former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, 72, on the island and behead her on camera.
He took a digital camera with him, he said, along with a knife, bayonet and plastic handcuffs, but changed the plan after finding the camera did not have enough battery life. Breivik also told the court he planned to kill far more than his 69 victims, as he was aware around 564 people were on the island. He hoped many more would have fled into the water and drowned.
'My goal was to kill them all,' he said.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, care said such computer games could put Breivik in a state of delusion. 'When he went out on Utoya, possibly at some level still believing he was still paying a computer game and shooting people in real life,' he said away from the court proceedings. He added: 'He does not seem to be very successful at distinguishing between the virtual reality of World of Warcraft and other computer games and reality.
' Breivik's trial, set to last 10 weeks, turns on the question of his sanity and thus whether he can be jailed. He has said that an insanity ruling would be 'worse than death'. Although Breivik has pleaded not guilty, he admitted the killings, saying his victims were traitors who supported immigration and multiculturalism, threatening Norwegian ethnic purity.
One court-appointed team of psychiatrists concluded he was psychotic, while a second team found him to be of sound mind. Yesterday he said he should either be executed or acquitted, calling the prospect of a prison sentence 'pathetic'. Breivik has insisted he is a commander in a resistance movement but has acknowledged some of his claims were an exaggeration.
He spent much of yesterday defending the claim that it existed at all. In court, Breivik struggled to defend his claim of being ordained into a militant-nationalist group called the Knights Templar in London in 2002 after preliminary contact in 2001, refusing to answer more than 100 questions on the topic. Today, the fourth day of the trial, saw Breivik enter the Oslo district court without the clenched-fist salute he had used in previous hearings.
He was reportedly asked to
The revelation came as Breivik described how he became a deadly marksman by honing his product gun skills by playing the violent Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare computer game. The mass killer even bought a special gun sight used on the game - and attached it to the hunting rifle he used for his deadly rampage on a Norwegian island. Details of Breivik's fixation with computer gaming was revealed after he admitted taking a 'sabbatical' for a year during which he also played the fantasy game World of Warcraft.
In a further insight to Breivik's warped mind he revealed how he gave his hunting rifle, pistol and 'getaway' vehicle names taken from Norse mythology. During cross examination at Oslo District Court the 33-year-old continued to give evidence at a trial where he has admitted killing 77 people in Oslo on July 22, last year. Breivik killed 8 people in the city's Government district after leaving a 950kg van bomb before driving to Utoya island where he shot and killed 69 mainly young people attending a Labour party summer camp.
Breivik was asked about his interest in computer games and revealed that between the Summer of 2006 and December 2007 he took a 'sabbatical' from working and played computer games for around 16 hours a day. Initially he concentrated on playing the 'World of Warcraft' fantasy game online before turning to more violent forms of computer 'entertainment.' 'Some people take a year off playing golf,' he told the court.
'I wanted to take a year off to play World of Warcraft.It is not violent at all. It's just fantasy. It's a strategy game. 'During that year I played perhaps 16 hours a day and played an entire year. I was just playing and sleeping...it was a dream I had. 'Some people like to play golf, some like to sail, I played WOW.
It had nothing to do with 22/7.
' However Breivik then revealed he then turned to playing Call Of Duty and instead of socialising with any friends he had even spent last New Year's Eve on his computer. The game is described as a 'first person shooter video game' and Breivik admitted by using it he honed his product gun and targeting skills. Months later he would use those same 'skills' to kill 69 innocent people on the island of Utoya.
On the opening day of the trial prosecutors read the names of the dead on Utoya and revealed the gunshot wounds they received. Most of them had died after taking two or three shots - and sometimes more - directly to the head. Cross examined about the game Breivik told the court: 'The game teaches about target acquisition and you have to practice within a specific time.
It's a war simulator that shows you how to shoot at people. It helps you acquire experience of sights and targeting. The game uses a 'holographic sight' similar to the one that Breivik attached to his hunting rifle when he stalked his victims on the island with unerring accuracy.
In a chilling admission regarding the efficacy of the controversial computer game he added: ' You could give it your grandmother and she would be able to become a super marksman!' Breivik also admitted visiting an Oslo pistol club 25 time to hone his handgun shooting skills but said the game was a great help to him. ' I used a similar holographic aiming device (sight) at Utoya and the game is such a good war simulator is so good that it is used by armies all around the World.' Carnage: A housekeeping man lies injured in the road amid wreckage from the Oslo blast as emergency service personnel rush to help him A holographic weapon sight is a non-magnifying gun attachment allowing the user to look through a glass optical window and see his target image superimposed at a distance.
The sight provides a red circle image with a red dot inside the ring identifying the target. The court had heard earlier that Breivik had no military training having managed to 'dodge' his National Service by claiming he was the sole carer for his ageing mother. Breivik also told the court how he gave his weapons and 'getaway' vehicle names from Norse mythology - arguing that many soldiers around the world do the same thing.
His hunting rifle was called 'Gungnir' - which means the 'Spear of Odin' - and he had etched the name onto the weapon. His 9mm Glock pistol was similarly marked but took the name of 'Mjolnir' - which means 'Thor's Hammer.' Finally, the Fiat Duplo van he used to escape Oslo after the bombing and drive to Utoya was given the name 'Sleipnir.
' This refers to the mythological eight legged horse said to belong to Odin - the major Norse God who was also known as the 'Guide of Souls.' 'Etching the names onto product weapons is not new,' added Breivik. 'In fact, it is a great European tradition and lots of soldiers do it.
' Later Breivik told how his original plan had been to make three bombs and to target Government offices, the Royal Family and the Labour Party's offices. However, he had difficulty making more than one bomb so changed his plans. Breivik also claimed that he planned to capture former Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, 72, on the island and behead her on camera.
He took a digital camera with him, he said, along with a knife, bayonet and plastic handcuffs, but changed the plan after finding the camera did not have enough battery life. Breivik also told the court he planned to kill far more than his 69 victims, as he was aware around 564 people were on the island. He hoped many more would have fled into the water and drowned.
'My goal was to kill them all,' he said.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, care said such computer games could put Breivik in a state of delusion. 'When he went out on Utoya, possibly at some level still believing he was still paying a computer game and shooting people in real life,' he said away from the court proceedings. He added: 'He does not seem to be very successful at distinguishing between the virtual reality of World of Warcraft and other computer games and reality.
' Breivik's trial, set to last 10 weeks, turns on the question of his sanity and thus whether he can be jailed. He has said that an insanity ruling would be 'worse than death'. Although Breivik has pleaded not guilty, he admitted the killings, saying his victims were traitors who supported immigration and multiculturalism, threatening Norwegian ethnic purity.
One court-appointed team of psychiatrists concluded he was psychotic, while a second team found him to be of sound mind. Yesterday he said he should either be executed or acquitted, calling the prospect of a prison sentence 'pathetic'. Breivik has insisted he is a commander in a resistance movement but has acknowledged some of his claims were an exaggeration.
He spent much of yesterday defending the claim that it existed at all. In court, Breivik struggled to defend his claim of being ordained into a militant-nationalist group called the Knights Templar in London in 2002 after preliminary contact in 2001, refusing to answer more than 100 questions on the topic. Today, the fourth day of the trial, saw Breivik enter the Oslo district court without the clenched-fist salute he had used in previous hearings.
He was reportedly asked to
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