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Lawyer: Norway suspect wanted anti-Muslim crusade

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Norwegian mass killer wants to oust all the Muslims from Europe .

The man blamed for attacks on Norways government headquarters and a youth retreat that left at least 92 dead said he was motivated by a desire to bring about a revolution in Norwegian society, his lawyer said Sunday.A manifesto that he is believed to have written ranted against Muslim immigration to Europe and vowed revenge on indigenous Europeans who he accused of betraying their heritage.Although lawyer for the 32-year-old Norwegian suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, said his client acted alone, police conducted raids on a garage and sheds in an industrial neighborhood of eastern Oslo, said police officer Kjell Bjerklund.Survivors of the mass shooting on Utoya island that killed at least 85 young people reported seeing two assailants, and police have said they were looking into those accounts and had not ruled out a second suspect. Another seven people were killed in Fridays bombing in an Oslo government building.In all, 93 people were killed and 96 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 ministers office.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 Breivik wrote the document, but his lawyer referred to it and said Breivik had been working on it for years.The treatise ends with a detailed description of the plot, ending with a note dated 12:51 p.m. on July 22: I believe this will be my last entry.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.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.Norways 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.After the service, people sobbed and hugged one another in the streets as they streamed out of the cathedral. Many lingered over the memorial of flowers and candles.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 Norways 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 entitled, 2083 - A European Declaration of Independence, that police were examining. It was signed Andrew Berwick. The date was referred to later in the document as the year that coups detat would engulf Europe and overthrow the elite he maligns.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 it accused of betraying Europe.
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