Breivik planned to kill leading politicians

THE right-wing extremist who killed dozens of teenagers in Norway told police he had originally planned to execute leading Labour Party politicians whom he viewed as traitors.

The Norwegian VG tabloid, citing leaked police interrogations with Anders Behring Breivik, reported that Breivik’s aim was to kill former prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, foreign minister Jonas Gahr Stoere or Eskil Pedersen, head of the Labour Party’s youth wing.

But only Pedersen was present when the 32-year-old Norwegian arrived on July 22 at the Labour Party youth camp after setting off a bomb that killed eight people in Oslo. Pedersen survived Breivik’s attack but 69 other people were killed at the Utoya Island camp.