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ven his lawyers say the plea has no chance – but Anders Behring Breivik is still determined to somehow prove that killing 77 people, most of them teenagers, was an act of self-defense.
The 33-year-old extremist has confessed to planting a bomb near government buildings in Oslo, then driving to the island of Utoya, where he systematically shot 69 people.
Originally posted by blueorder
I think these murders were barbaric, however I find them no more or less barbaric than an AMerican President authorising the incineration of tens of thousands of Japanese civilians with nuclear weapons
Originally posted by starviego
Some fascinating tidbits are emerging from the trial. For example, the response of Norway's "elite" commandos sounds more like an episode of the 'Three Stooges:'
www.bbc.co.uk...
Delta Force, Norway's elite anti-terrorism commandos, were ordered to the scene. But no helicopter capable of transporting them was available. Instead, Delta had to drive the 40km (25 mile) journey, through winding mountain roads and Friday rush-hour traffic. It took them 40 minutes. Throughout that time, the young people on the island were defenceless. There was more delay when they arrived on the shore opposite Utoeya, believing that they faced more than one gunman. Delta filled the only police boat available with officers. The boat was overloaded, took on water and eventually stopped. Delta had to be rescued by a local boatman. Once they reached the island, Breivik surrendered.
And this:
www.bbc.co.uk...
When Breivik began shooting, the best hope of escape for the young people on the island was the ferry to the mainland. It was an old military landing craft, which could carry up to 60 people and was armoured against bullets. Yet in the first few minutes of the attacks, the leader of the Labour Party's youth wing, Eskil Pedersen, fled on the ferry with only eight other people on board.
"It's easy to see that that's what people would have done in a situation like that. Most people would have run away," another survivor, Bjorn Ihler, told BBC Two's This World.
"But at the same time this was the leader of the group that was on the island and like a captain abandoning the ship."
Originally posted by XXX777
reply to post by kn0wh0w
I believe him.
He is a soldier, and he went to war against those that were attacking him.
I like him.
I think he will have a positive effect.
Originally posted by magma
Originally posted by XXX777
reply to post by kn0wh0w
I believe him.
He is a soldier, and he went to war against those that were attacking him.
I like him.
I think he will have a positive effect.
Maybe you have some issues yourself there.....
He has no right to take innocent lives, ever.
You intitled to your opinion as I am mine, just remember that