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Norway terrorist attacks: live coverage
Live coverage from Norway after Anders Behring Breivik killed seven people in an Oslo bomb attack before shooting dead at least 85 at summer camp on island of Utoya.
By Andrew Hough and Jonny Cooper
13.51 Norwegian news organisation Dagbladet has a story on a man with a military background who 'saved 20 to 30 youths from the Utoya Island shooting'.
Marcel Gleffe was drinking coffee with family outside his wagon when he heard shots, and was among the first to reach the youths.
"The first one I picked up shouted ‘terrorist, terrorist, terrorist!” he told Dagbladet. Gleffe then took four or five trips back to the island, ferrying people to safety.
"The youths were great. They supported each other and were organised, and told me who needed first aid,” he said.
"They were glad to receive help, but were unsure of who to trust."
Mr Gleffe has been on foreign military missions, and said he recognised an automatic weapon immediately. He said did not fear for his own life.
“I did it instinctively,” he said. "You don’t become scared in a situation like that, you just do what is necessary.”
“I know the difference between fireworks and shots. I knew what it was about, and that it wasn’t just any nonsense.”
13.48 The right-wing group English Defence League, has denied that Breivik, 32, had any links with them and said they "vehemently" opposed his actions.
In a statement on its website the group wrote:
Terrorism and extremism of any kind is never acceptable
We strongly oppose extremism and always reject any suggestion of us being either extremists or far-right, due to our great past record of dealing with anyone who holds such extremist views.
The Nordic Defence League also distanced itself from the killings.
13.43 Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned
that Britain's security forces may not be able to stop a Norway-style terror attack.
Mr Hague said it was harder to prevent atrocities by determined individuals than sophisticated networks such as al Qaida.
He said the Government had put expertise from crimes like the July 7 bombings at the disposal of the Norwegian authorities.
The National Security Council will meet tomorrow in London and we will look at the lessons to be learned from this.
We will check that enough attention is being given to all forms of terrorism.
And of course we've put in place over the last few years - in the last government and the current government - strong defences.
We have tight firearms controls in Britain and we have very tight controls on the sale of material needed to manufacture a bomb, and we have the most highly professionally trained firearms officers in the world.
13.26 It appears Breivik stole large chunks of his manifesto from the Unabomber.
While most of the document is acurately sourced, Breivik makes no reference to Ted Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 others during a 20 year long mail bombing spree under the alias Unabomber.
Brevik often copies Kaczynski word for word, only changing the word 'leftist' for 'cultural Marx'.
13.14 Norwegian police have released the six suspects briefly detained following the raid in Oslo this morning (see 12.07).
A statement released by the police says no explosives were found at the location, and no evidence was found to connect the suspects with Friday's acts of terror.
It's worth repeating at this point that gunman Anders Behring Breivik says he acted alone (see 12.25).
12.52 We've uncovered Breivik's reasoning behind titling his manifesto '2083'.
The date will mark 400 years since the Battle of Vienna. As he explains in the document:
John III Sobieski and the Holy League successfully defended Europe against an army of more than 150 000 Muslims at the Battle of Vienna.
New European cultural conservative Independence Day should be celebrated on September 11th or 12th marking the successful defence of Western Europe by the Holy League. The Battle of Vienna in 1683 should be celebrated as the Independence Day for all Western Europeans as it was the beginning of the end for the second Islamic wave of Jihads.
The front page of Anders Behring Breivik's manifesto.
12.49 Freelance journalist @CamillaFuhr tweets on the Oslo memorial service:
Heartbreaking to see the king and queen of Norway wiping away tears at memorial service in Oslo.
12.46 Peter Hutchinson says the police are now allowing media representatives to inspect the property where six men were arrested earlier today (see 12.07).
12.36 The Pope has called on people to renounce hatred in the face of the "deep sorrow" felt over the terror attacks in Norway.
The pope urged people to pray for the dead, the wounded and their loved ones as he spoke to pilgrims and tourists from the balcony of his summer palace in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.
Unfortunately, yet again comes news of death and violence. We all feel deep sorrow for the grave terrorist acts.
I want to again repeat my grief-stricken appeal to all to abandon forever the way of hatred and to run away from the logic of evil.
12.29 NRK, Norway's public broadcaster, says a man shot by Breivik on Utoya Island has died.
The combined death toll of the Oslo bombs and the Utoya shootings is now 93.
12.25 Contrary to those arrests, Breivik says he acted alone:
12.22 More from Peter Hutchinson, who's on the ground in Oslo:
Torill Nyquist, 63, who lives near the run down, boarded up address, said: "The police have told me that six men were arrested this morning. They were taken away in their underwear, I'm told. I didn't even know there was anyone living there in the house. I am in shock. The whole thing is very terrifying.
12.17 Here's a selection of quotes from Breivik's 1,500 page manifesto.
12.12 Like Breivik's father (see 11.48), the gunman's mother says she knew nothing of her son's intentions.
She was interviewed yesterday by investigators but was unable to shed light on the events.
VG is reporting the following quotes from a woman who says she met the mother just a few hours before the explosion in Oslo on Friday:
She was on her way to the city centre. She is always kind and happy, and was very proud of her son. She had no suspicion at all.
12.07 Telegraph reporter Peter Hutchinson, who is in Oslo, reports that six men have been arrested in connection to the attacks:
I'm at an address in east Oslo where police are searching premises after conducting an armed raid earlier this morning. Officers are scouring the derelict building near to the capital's bypass in connection with the attacks on Friday. Neighbours reported that six men, dressed only in their underwear, wear taken away by police this morning.
12.01 The Washington Times has obtained a series of messages from Breivik in which he discusses his political beliefs. Here's a sample:
Today Western Europeans refrain from reacting since they live in economic prosperity and to stand up for their ideas would send them into suffering. However, in a few decades we will have an economic downfall that will make the current recession look like a picnic. And at that point standing up for their ideas will come at no extra cost, since the suffering is already prevalent.
I think we will see the first real signs of European resistance or even armed resistance within 10-15 years in certain European metropolitans. I’ve seen and heard of numerous suspect ‘accidents’ already, even in Norway.
11.48 Breivik's father says he knew nothing of Friday's attack before reading it online:
I was reading online newspapers and suddenly saw his name and picture. It was a shock to read it. It hasn't sunk in yet.
I haven't been in touch with him since 1995. Not since he was 15-16 years old.
He wanted to cut the contact. He said he would move to USA, but I don't know if he went.
We have never lived together, but we had a little contact in during his childhood.
When he was young he was a regular lad, but contained. He wasn't interested in politics at that time.
In a separate email released to the email, the father says:
I feel deep grief and horror over what has happened, and have not come over the insane action of Anders, who I have not been in touch with since 1995. It is for me completely impossible to understand that something like this could happen. I ask the press to understand that I want to be left alone with my despair and sorrow.
11.44 News coming through that Breivik has said he's part of an international network:
@DougSaunders Breivik acknowledges through lawyer that he's part of an international network of extremists, and that this was an explicitly political act.
11.39 The police raid (see 10.51) is being carried out in the Sletteloekka district, police confirm.
Norwegian media report the operation is taking place near an area of wasteland.
11.36 The memorial service in Oslo is now over.
People are filing out of the cathedral as a sombre bell tolls over and again.
11.33 More coming through on the gunman's parents.
Behring Breivik's father, who is retired and lives in France, says:
I'm in shock, it was terrible to hear about it.
11.29 Behring Breivik's father lives in France, it is being reported.
France is included in the list of countries the gunman sends thanks to in his manifesto (see below entry).
11.52 Gunman Anders Behring Breivik appears to have links to Britain.
His online manifesto, written under the Anglicised psuedonym Andrew Berwick, includes an entry on a secret meeting in London to reconvene the Knights Templar.
Nine people from across Europe attended the meeting, though it's currently unclear whether they were aware of Behring Breivik's terror plot intentions.
Breivik labels himself a Justiciar Knight Commander for Knights Templar Europe in his manifesto. He also pointedly makes thanks to "brothers and sisters in England, Germany, Sweden and the US" (amongst others).
11.12 BBC man Jon Sopel reports that the Met police are helping out in Oslo:
Uk ambassador to Norway tells me Scotland Yard detective has arrived in Oslo to offer assistance from the Met in investigation
11.11 The armed operation in east Oslo (see 10.51) is ongoing. The area is not blocked off, but police are telling people to stay awa.
10.59 Here's some quotes from Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's speech at the memoral service:
Today it is time for sorrow. We shall allow ourselves to stop, and honour the dead. Mourn for those who are no more. 92 human lives are lost. Several are still missed. Each and everyone of those is a tragedy. Together, they make a national tragedy.
Amid the tragedy I am proud to live in a country that has managed to stand firm. I am impressed over how much dignity, care and strength we have. We are a small country, but we are a proud people. We are still shaken, but we will never give up our values. Our answer is more democracy and openness, never naivety.
Cites a girl from the AUF camp (the youth Labour party): "If one man can show so much hatred, imagine how much love we can all show together.
10.51 An armed raid is underway by police in east Oslo.
Police have confirmed to AP that the action is in connection with the terrorist attack that hit Norway on Friday.
10.50 The Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is speaking at the memorial service in Oslo. We'll bring you a translation in the next few minutes.
10.45 As well as a rambing 1,500 page manifesto, Behring Breivik - who used the psuedonym Andrew Berwick
10.36 A total of 97 people were wounded in twin attacks in Norway, according to police, giving the first injured toll from the bombing and shooting that also killed 92 people and left several missing.
"We are stil looking for casualties in the ministries," that were bombed, police commissioner Sveinung Sponheim told journalists. Police said earlier that others were also missing from the shooting on an island northwest of Oslo.
10.30 Norwegian news organisation VG have compiled a video of the rescue operation on Utoeya island.
It shows people swimming to safety, and a man using a rope to ascend a rock face.
10.28 Journalist and author Doug Saunders tweets succintly from the service:
10.24 Telegraph correspondent Victoria Ward is witnessing the scene outside Oslo Cathedral, where the memorial service is currently taking place.
The Yfrog link in the below tweet shows a sea of flowers that has already amassed in memory of Friday's victims.
10.20 Anders Behring Breivik,the suspect in Norway's twin attacks that killed at least 92 and wounded 97, says he acted alone, police said this morning, after some witness accounts said a second gunman had taken part in a mass shooting.
But police are still trying to establish whether there was "one or several" shooters at Friday's attack on a Labour Party youth meeting on Utoeya island, northwest of Oslo, police commissioner Sveinung Sponheim told journalists.
"During questioning, he said he acted alone," Sponheim said. "We will try to verify this through our inquiry."
10.11 The priest has opened the service:
All of us are mourning. Today we gather here today for a service of sorrow and hope.
Today we are a people in mourning This is for family and friends. We today pray for our country, our people and our government.
We are surrounded by well wishes from many countries. We are here talking to each other in the room of God. He is the hope.
Peace be with all of you.
10.03 Meanwhile Ketil B. Stensrud tweets that the whole country is watching the service. "Not a man in sight outside".
09.50 Dramatic video from Utøya has been published by Norway VG newspaper, showing police rescue a boy hiding off a mountain cliff.
09.45 The toll could rise further as the search continued for four or five people still missing from the island, aided by a mini-submarine and Red Cross scuba divers.
09.40 The Sunday Telegraph's foreign affairs reporter Harriet Alexander has sent this dispatch from Oslo.
On Norwegian television, the Sunday morning news discussion is dominated by analysis of Breivik's "manifesto" and YouTube video. Whichever channel you switch to, you will hear the creepy music he chose to accompany the warped collection of cartoons and political rage.
Last night in Oslo the streets were quiet - I'm told that it was far more subdued than usual for a Saturday.
But even so, people wanted to talk about it - everyone is struggling to come to terms with how this could happen here in Norway, and they need to try and make sense of it. It's such a small country, so it has had a huge impact psychologically.
One girl, Silje, last night told me:
In some ways it's easier to right it off as the work of a crazy loner, rather than an organisation that hated us. But then again, it's so hard to think that a Norwegian could do this to his own country.
09.35 Norway's King Harald V, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and other ministers are to attend mass at Oslo cathedral later on Sunday morning.
A national day of mourning has been declared as police try and identify the dead.
Earlier Mr Stoltenberg told journalists as police searched for more bodies on the idyllic Utoeya island near Oslo.
Never since the Second World War has our country been hit by a crime on this scale
Many of those who have died were friends. I know their parents and it happened at a place where I spent a long time as a young person... It was a paradise of my youth that has now been turned into hell.
09.30 It should also be pointed out that the Norwegian capital is a well-known symbol of international peace efforts and home to the Nobel Peace Prize.
09.25 The killer also posted a YouTube video, which has since taken down but posted here, on Friday summing up his arguments.
In its closing moments, the video shows him in military uniform, holding assault weapons.
09.20 Breivik lived in London at one stage with his father who worked in the Norwegian embassy, reports Peter Hutchison, from Oslo.
09.18 He says he will open up the cordons around the city later today.
09.13 The police chief is still talking to the press.
We have not found anymore explosives on the island. We don't know why he chose the island. We will release the names (of the dead) as soon as possible.
We can't 100 per cent guarentee people's safety. What we are doing now is considering all the information get during the investigation and how we can secure the city of Oslo.
09.10 Anders Behring Breivik has apparently confessed to Norway's twin terror attacks that killed at least 92 people, saying the carnage was long planned
Behring Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad has told different Norwegian media.
He admitted responsibility. He feels that it was cruel to have to carry out these acts but that, in his head, it was necessary.
He has said that he believed the actions were atrocious, but that in his head they were necessary.
He's stated that he went to Utøya [where 700 youths in the age of 15-25 were gathered] to give the Labour party a warning that 'doomsday would be imminent' unless the party changed its policies,.
He wanted to hurt the Labour party and halt its recruitment in the worst possible way, referring to party members as marxists.
I think he's realised what he's done, and he views himself as sane. He's told me that he surrendered to Delta [Norwegian special forces].
He wanted to open doors [by committing these crimes]. He will explain the background of his actions and why he actually did it for media.
He sits on a lot of hatred for many people, which incorporates most significant societal institutions.
He says that there was no other way. He had tried all possible alternatives.He felt that his actions were gruesome, but necessary.
09.06 Police are giving a press conference. They confirm that they have seen the manifesto. The police chief cannot confirm that police ran out of ammunition during their shoot out with the gunman.
This is a long process and a difficult job.
They are extremely serious actions and it will have serious consequences for him. He will be Imprisoned for a long time.
09.06 The manifesto ends with chilling signoff: “I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51."
In part it says:
The reasoning for this decision is to create a credible cover in case I am arrested in regards to the purchase and smuggling of explosives or components to explosives - fertiliser.
I will be labeled as the biggest (Nazi-) monster ever witnessed since WW2. The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come.
My name, Breivik, can be dated back to even before the Viking era. Behring is a pre-Christian Germanic name which is derived from Behr, the Germanic word for Bear... Anders (Andreas) is the Scandinavian equivalent of... Andrew.
Q: Name one living person you would like to meet?
A: The Pope or Vladimir Putin. Putin seems like a fair and resolute leader worthy of respect. Im unsure at this point whether he has the potential to be our best friend or our worst enemy though."
I am an extremely patient and a very positively minded individual," the author writes in the text that includes a glossary and tips on farming.
But by July of this year, patience had run out and preparations were proceeding apace.
Sunday July 17: Continued removing traces of the decor on the rental car. Washed twice with acetone then another round of degreasing. There are still significant traces but at this point I do not have time to take additional measures.
I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51 Sincere regards, Andrew Berwick, Justiciar Knight Commander, Knights Templar Europe, Knights Templar Norway.
09.05 A rambling 1500-page manifesto said to be written by the Norwegian man accused of killing at least 92 people in twin attacks in Norway has been found, calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.
The internet document, posted online just hours before the attack, shows his rampage had been planned for at least two year.
It is part diary, part bomb-making manual and part political rant in which Anders Behring Breivik details his Islamophobia, attacks on Marxism and his initiation as a Knight Templar.
The document also describes a secret meeting in London, in April 2002, to reconstitute the "Knights Templar", a Crusader military order. It doesn't name anyone or
His "martyrdom operation" diary, titled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence", shows he had been preparing the operation since at least autumn 2009.
It says he was part of a small group that intended to “seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda".
While the text is signed under the pseudonym "Andrew Berwick", the author explains the origins of his real name - Anders Behring Breivik.
One entry titled "Autumn 2009 - Phase Shift" explains how he set up front mining and farming businesses to prepare the attacks for which he was arrested on Friday.
09.01 First here is a The Sunday Telegraph's dramatic front page splash story from this morning under the headline: the laughing gunman who killed 85 young victims, one by one.
09.00 Good morning and welcome back to The Telegraph's live coverage of the tragic events unfolding in Norway, in which Anders Behring Breivik killed almost 100 people in twin attacks in Oslo and Utoya. There have been a number of major developments overnight, which we will detail in a moment.
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