Mass killer prepared with war video games
New Zealand Herald Thursday 19th April, 2012
Confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has testified that he had planned to capture and decapitate former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland during his shooting massacre on Utoya island.
Breivik said his plan was to film the beheading and post the video on the Internet.
Brundtland had already left the Labor Party's youth camp on Utoya when Breivik arrived on July 22, after setting off a bomb in Oslo that killed eight people.
Sixty-nine people, mostly teenagers, were killed on Utoya, where nearly 600 members of the Labor Party's youth wing had gathered for their annual summer retreat.
"The plan was to behead Gro Harlem Brundtland while it was being filmed," Breivik told the court.
The far-right fanatic said he was inspired by al-Qaeda's use of decapitation but noted that "beheading is a traditional European death penalty. "
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