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April 16, 2012

Breivik Admits Killing 77 in Norwegian Massacre, Claims Self Defense 
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The anti-Muslim Norwegian militant who massacred 77 people last summer
admitted to carrying out the killings today but pleaded not guilty to
criminal charges. On the first day of his trial, Anders Behring Breivik
gave a clenched-fist salute and said he acted to defend his country
against Muslims.

Anders Behring Breivick: "I do not recognise the Norwegian courts. You
have received your mandate from political parties which support
multiculturalism."

Breivik is on trial for setting off a car bomb that killed eight people
at government headquarters in Oslo last July, then killing 69 in a
shooting spree at a summer youth camp on an island organized by the
ruling Labour Party. Bjoern Ihler survived the massacre at the camp.

Bjoern Ihler: "I think it is very important that the world sees this and
sees it for what it is. It is a tragedy that is founded on political
views that are very common in the rest of the world as well and we have
to fight that and we have to fight extremist actions like this."

 

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