OSLO, Norway (AP) — The man blamed for attacks on
Norway’s government headquarters and a youth retreat said he was
motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society,
his lawyer said Sunday.
Though he told his lawyer that he acted
alone, police said Sunday they were conducting an operation in a
residential neighborhood of Oslo. Police spokesman Anders Fridenberg
would give no other details about the action. Survivors of the massacre
have said there were two assailants, and police have said they were
looking into those accounts and had not ruled out a second suspect.
A
manifesto published online — which police are poring over and said was
posted the day of the attack — ranted that the European elite,
"multiculturalists" and "enablers of Islamization" would be punished for
their "treasonous acts." Police have not confirmed that their suspect,
32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik, wrote the document, but his lawyer
referred to it and said Breivik had been working on it for years.
Police
and his lawyer have said that Breivik confessed to the twin attacks,
but denied criminal responsibility for a day that shook peaceful Norway
to its core and was the deadliest ever in peacetime. He has been charged
with terrorism and will be arraigned on Monday.
In all, 92 people
were killed and 97 wounded. There are still people missing at both
scenes. Six hearses pulled up at the shore of the lake surrounding the
island on Sunday, as rescuers on boats continued to search for bodies in
the water. Body parts remain inside the Oslo building, which housed the
prime minister’s office.
Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim said a
forensics expert from Interpol would join the investigation on Sunday.
Other offers of international assistance have been turned down.
Norway’s
King Harald V and his wife Queen Sonja and Prime Minister Jens
Stoltenberg joined mourners on Sunday at Oslo Cathedral, where the pews
were packed, and the crowd spilled into the plaza outside the building.
The area was strewn with flowers and candles, and people who could not
fit in the grand church huddled under umbrellas in a drizzle.
The king and queen both wiped tears from their eyes during the service for "sorrow and hope."

More
was coming to light Sunday about the man who police say confessed to a
car bomb at government headquarters in Oslo and then, hours later,
opening fire on young people at an island political retreat. Both
targets were linked to Norway’s left-leaning Labor Party, and
authorities have said Breivik held anti-Muslim views and posted on
Christian fundamentalist websites.
"He wanted a change in society
and, from his perspective, he needed to force through a revolution,"
Geir Lippestad, his lawyer, told public broadcaster NRK. "He wished to
attack society and the structure of society."
Lippestad said Breivik spent years writing the 1,500-page manifesto that police were examining. It was
signed "Andrew Berwick."
The
use of an anglicized pseudonym could be explained by a passage in the
manifesto describing the founding, in April 2002 in London, of a group
he calls a new Knights Templar. The Knights Templar was a medieval order
founded to protect Christian pilgrims in the Holy Land after the First
Crusade.
Sponheim, the police chief, said there was no indication
whether Breivik had selected his targets or fired randomly on the
island. The manifesto vowed revenge on those who had betrayed Europe.
"We,
the free indigenous peoples of Europe, hereby declare a pre-emptive war
on all cultural Marxist/multiculturalist elites of Western Europe. …
We know who you are, where you live and we are coming for you," the
document said. "We are in the process of flagging every single
multculturalist traitor in Western Europe. You will be punished for your
treasonous acts against Europe and Europeans."
Police spokesman
John Fredriksen confirmed that the essay was posted the day of the
attacks. The document signaled an attack was imminent: "In order to
successfully penetrate the cultural Marxist/multiculturalist media
censorship, we are forced to employ significantly more brutal and
breath-taking operations, which will result in casualties."
Witnesses
at the island youth retreat described the way Breivik lured them close
by saying he was a police officer before raising his weapons. People hid
and fled into the water to escape the rampage; some played dead.
While
some on the island reported that there was a second assailant and
police said they were looking into that, Lippestad, the lawyer, said his
client claims to have acted alone.
Police took 90 minutes from
the first shot to reach the island — delayed because they did not have
quick access to a helicopter and struggled to find a boat once they
reached the lake. Breivik surrendered when they reached him, but before
85 people died. Another seven were killed in the bombing.
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DiLorenzo
reported from Stockholm. Associated Press writers Ian MacDougall in
Oslo, and Louise Nordstrom and Karl Ritter in Stockholm contributed.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.