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Right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway wants a medal
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/February/international_February257.xml§ion=international&col=Norway mass killer demands medal at court hearing (Reuters)
7 February 2012
OSLO, Norway — The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime massacre told a court Monday that he deserves a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.
Anders Behring Breivik smirked as he was led in to the Oslo district court, handcuffed and dressed in a dark suit, for his last scheduled detention hearing before the trial starts in April. He stretched out his arms in what his lawyer Geir Lippestad called “some kind of right-wing extremist greeting.”
Reading from prepared remarks, the 32-year-old Norwegian told the court that the July 22 massacre — carried out with a bomb, a rifle and a handgun — was a strike against “traitors” who he said are embracing immigration to promote “an Islamic colonization of Norway.”