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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (26) Slideshow Video Full Focus Photos of the week Our top photos from the past week. Full Article Follow Reuters Facebook Twitter RSS YouTube Read Futures slump as debt talks result in no deal | 24 Jul 2011 Norway mass killer wants time in court to tell why | 1:26am EDT Stock futures, dollar fall on no debt deal 24 Jul 2011 No endgame in sight as debt default looms | 3:36am EDT Amy Winehouse family pleads for "privacy and space" | 12:26am EDT Discussed 200 Senate group offers $3.75 trillion deficit cuts 145 New plan offers hope for progress in debt talks 88 Big debt deal gains traction amid chaotic efforts Watched Clinton arrives in Hong Kong Sun, Jul 24 2011 Amy Winehouse body removed from London home. Sat, Jul 23 2011 Vigil for Norway victims Sun, Jul 24 2011 Norway mass killer wants time in court to tell why Tweet Share this Email Print Factbox Excerpts from 1,500-page Norway killer manifesto Sun, Jul 24 2011 Related News Norway's mass killer pursuing anti-Islam crusade Sun, Jul 24 2011 Timeline: Excerpts from Norway attacker's diary Sun, Jul 24 2011 In rural town, Norway attacker seemed city loner Sun, Jul 24 2011 Norway killer intended to target former PM Brundtland: report 1:26am EDT Analysis & Opinion Will the Democrats go after Murdoch? The case against the bribery case against Murdoch Related Topics World » Norway » Related Video Vigil for Norway victims Sun, Jul 24 2011 Mourning in Norway Norway police transfer victims' bodies to mainland Norway memorial service for massacre and bomb victims Killings "necessary" - Breivik Memorial service for Norway victims 1 of 28. People place flowers in front of Utoeya island, northwest of Oslo July 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch By Jon Hemming OSLO | Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:26am EDT OSLO (Reuters) - Anders Behring Breivik wants to tell Norway and the world why he killed at least 93 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage when he appears in court on Monday, his lawyer said. Calling himself a crusader against a tide of Islam in a rambling 1,500-page online manifesto, the 32-year-old mass murderer wants the opportunity to explain actions he deemed 'atrocious, but necessary'. Lawyer Geir Lippestad said his client had admitted to Friday's shootings at a Labour youth camp and an earlier bomb that killed seven people in Oslo's government district, but that he denies any criminal guilt. "He has been politically active and found out himself that he did not succeed with usual political tools and so resorted to violence," Lippestad told TV2 news. "I await a medical assessment of him," he said. The worst peacetime massacre in the normally placid country's modern history appears to have been driven by Breivik's mission to save Europe from what he saw as the threats of Islam, immigration and multi-culturalism. That he deliberately surrendered to police when finally confronted on the tiny island of Utoeya after gunning down 86 youngsters underlines his desire to secure a public platform for his radical thoughts. In other instances of gunmen going on killing sprees the perpetrators often commit suicide when the police arrive or actively provoke officers to shoot them dead. "He has a message he wants to get across," criminologist Professor David Wilson told Britain's Sky News. It was not clear how long Breivik will have to talk in court since the hearing will be about custody and he will not be required to enter a guilty or innocent plea. Police played down a report in Norwegian media they had already decided to ask for the hearing, when a judge is set to remand him in custody, to be held behind closed doors. "It's up to the judge to decide. It's not uncommon that the police will ask for it in advance but I don't know if the police will ask for that," Liv Corneliussen, a police prosecutor, told Reuters. The issue could trigger a debate about freedom of expression with many Norwegians opposed to allowing a man who has shaken the nation's psyche the right to speak out. Norwegian markets will open as normal, but the country will observe a minute of silence at midday (1000 GMT). An exact time for the court hearing has not been set, but it was likely to be after 1 p.m. "He explains himself fairly calmly, but every now and then expresses emotion," Lippestad said of Breivik. "He buries his head in his hands." "He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary," adding his client did not feel he deserved punishment. Police believe Breivik acted alone after becoming disenchanted with mainstream parties, even those that have gained popularity and parliamentary seats on anti-immigration policies in otherwise liberal and tolerant European countries, including affluent Norway. IMMIGRATION The attack was likely to tone down the debate on immigration ahead of September local elections, analysts said, as parties seek to distance themselves from Breivik's beliefs and reinforce Norwegians' view of themselves as an open, peaceful people. Norway's immigrant numbers nearly tripled between 1995 and 2010 to almost half a million in a population of 4.8 million. The sense that many were drawn by Norway's generous welfare handouts helped spur the growth of the Progress Party which became Norway's second biggest in parliament after the 2009 election on a largely anti-immigration platform. Breivik was once a member of the party, but left complaining it was too politically correct. It was then he began scheming to "resist," burying ammunition more than a year ago, weight-lifting, storing up credit cards and researching bomb-making while playing online war games. After three months of laboriously pounding and mixing fertilizer, aspirin and other chemicals on a remote farm, Breivik drove a hire car packed with the results to the center of Oslo on Friday, triggering the device outside government offices, killing seven and shattering thousands of windows. He then drove to the small island of Utoeya, 45 km (28 miles) away, and dressed as a police officer calmly hunted down terrified youngsters attending a youth summer camp for the ruling Labour Party. The young people made desperate attempts to hide in the woods, under beds or leapt into the water and tried to swim to the mainland. "This is going to be an all-or-nothing scenario," Breivik wrote in his English-language online journal on the morning of the attack. "First coming costume party this autumn, dress up as a police officer. Arrive with insignias:-) Will be awesome as people will be very astonished:-)." "DUM-DUM" A surgeon at a hospital that treated 35 of the wounded said "dum dum" bullets that cause maximum damage were possibly used. "These bullets don't explode inside the body but fragment into pieces more quickly than other bullets," Colin Poole, chief surgeon of the Ringerike district hospital, told Reuters. While Breivik gunned down victims on Utoeya, it took police a full hour to get a team of elite forces to the island after one boat, overloaded with officers and equipment, was forced to stop when it began to take on water. Norwegian television managed to charter a helicopter and filmed the killer before the police showed up. When police did arrive, Breivik gave himself up without a fight. "He had at that point used two weapons and had been, and was still, in possession of a substantial amount of ammunition," Johan Fredriksen, chief of staff at Oslo police. "Thus, the police's response has hindered further killing on the island." At the custody hearing police can request an initial detention of eight weeks in solitary confinement with no access to news, letters or visitors, except a lawyer. Police have said a trial could be a year away. The maximum jail term in Norway is 21 years, although that can be extended if there is a risk of repeat offences. "In theory he can be in jail for the rest of his life," said professor of criminal law at the University of Oslo, Staale Eskeland. (Additional reporting by Walter Gibbs, Anna Ringstrom, Henrik Stoelen, Terje Solsvik, Patrick Lannin, Johan Ahlander, Wojciech Moskwa, Alister Doyle, John Acher and Ole Petter Skonnord in Oslo, Editing by Matthew Jones) World Norway Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (26) IMPOSSIBLEMAN wrote: Oh I SEE Because he is Christian, you call him MASS KILLER Let’s say he was a Muslim, What would Reuters call him ? TERRORIST Jul 24, 2011 10:18pm EDT -- Report as abuse eastpath wrote: Questions: Why so long before a police team made it to the island? Why was this man allowed to buy tons of bomb-making equipment? Why was this man allowed to purchase automatic firearms? Why was there no security on an island full of kids? Why is Norway’s maximum jail sentence 21 years? Why was this monster allowed to surrender? He should have been shot dead. This was not simply a crime. It was an abomination. Jul 24, 2011 10:32pm EDT -- Report as abuse Noble9 wrote: Nobody cares why he did it. Explanations are for society…once you start killing innocent kids, you are no longer part of society. Put him in a cage with other dangerous animals not fit for living within the bounds of civilization. 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