Anders Breivik ‘planned to behead former Norwegian prime minister’

Breivik, who was carrying handcuffs, aimed to shackle Mrs Brundtland before decapitating her. She was, he explained, a “category A traitor” because of her support for multiculturalism.

Everyone at the youth camp shared her guilt, added Breivik, describing them as “political activists”. In the event, he shot 67 people on Utoya while two more drowned after plunging into the sea in terror.

Yet Breivik said: “The objective was not to kill 69 people on Utoya island, the objective was to kill all of them.” His gun attack was designed to “detonate” panic that would cause all his targets to flee into the sea and drown. “The water was the weapon of mass destruction,” he said.

Some 500 people were taking part in the camp and Breivik’s youngest victim was only 14. “I knew that to kill a person under the age of 18 would be controversial,” he said. “But my starting point was that everyone was over the age of 16 and I would be able to distinguish those who were under 18. But it turned out to be impossible.”

In fact, Breivik killed 33 teenagers under the age of 18. Nonetheless, he said: “I’m not a child-murderer. I believe that all political activists who choose to fight for multiculturalism and work for that and have leadership positions in a political party are legitimate targets.”

Breivik added: “I would still have done it again.” As a shocked hush fell over the court, he announced there was “no better political target” than Utoya’s summer camp.

But he had assessed other options, including attacking the Labour party conference with “biological bullets” filled with toxin. He had bought 15 mililitres of pure nicotine from China, with 0.1 mililitres being a lethal dose.

He also examined building a “poor man’s atom bomb” by hijacking a petrol tanker and igniting its payload with explosives. This would have killed “several thousand” people at the annual Labour Day parade.

Yet building these weapons had been beyond him. He also considered attacking Oslo’s royal palace, but he would have picked a day when King Harald V was absent. “In my opinion, it would be unacceptable to attack the royal family,” said Breivik.

The case continues.

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