Norway killer 'a lone wolf'

The Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 76 people in a bombing and youth camp massacre appears to be a lone-wolf sociopath who kept his plans to himself for more than a decade, a top security official says.

“It’s a unique case. It’s unique person. He is total evil,” said Janne Kristiansen, the director of the Norwegian Police Security Service.

Anders Behring Breivik claims he carried out the July 22 attacks as part of a network of modern-day crusaders plotting a revolution against a multicultural Europe, and that there are other cells ready to strike.

But investigators have found no signs – before or after the attacks – of a larger conspiracy, though it is too early to rule it out completely, Kristiansen said.

“On the information we have so far, and I emphasise so far, we have no indication that he was part of a network or had any accomplices, or that there are other cells,” Kristiansen said.

She said Breivik does not appear to have shared his plot with anyone, and lived a lawful and moderate life before carrying out the attacks with “total precision”.

Kristiansen said that Breivik’s case presents a new challenge for security services, different from a “solo terrorist” who receives training and instructions from a terror network and is then left to pick out a target and attack it on his own.

Breivik appears to be a true lone wolf, who conceived and executed his plot without help or co-ordination from anyone.

“This is a totally different challenge,” Kristiansen said. “This is all in his mind.”

Judging by a manifesto he released just before the attacks, he started “preparing himself to do something big, shocking and spectacular” some 10-12 years ago, she said.

The 1,500-document calls for a revolution that will culminate by 2083 in the expulsion of Muslims from Europe and the elimination of the “cultural Marxist/multiculturalist” politics that Breivik complains facilitated the immigration of Muslims to European countries.