The right-wing extremist who killed dozens of teenagers in Norway told police
he had originally planned to capture and execute leading Labor Party politicians whom he viewed as traitors, a newspaper reported Friday.
The Norwegian VG tabloid, citing leaked police interrogations with Anders Behring Breivik, reported that Breivik’s aim was to kill former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere or Eskil Pedersen, head of the Labor Party’s youth wing. But only Pedersen was present when the 32-year-old Norwegian arrived July 22 at the Labor Party youth camp after setting off a bomb that killed eight people in Oslo. Pedersen survived Breivik’s attack but 69 other people were killed at the Utoya Island camp.
VG said Breivik’s initial
plan was to take one of the leading Labor Party officials hostage at Utoya and read a death sentence before carrying out an execution. He had prepared a speech for that, which he later recited to investigators, it said.
In a 1,500-page document posted online before the attacks,
Breivik laid out a blueprint for a nationalist revolution to overthrow governments he claims have let their countries down by allowing Muslim immigrants to settle in Europe.http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/report-norway-killer-planned-to-hunt-down-execute-left-wing-politicians-at-utoya-massacre/2011/11/18/gIQAN9bzXN_story.html