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Summary Unconfirmed reports reveal armed police detain many people linked to attacks.
.Armed Norwegian police detained several people on Sunday in a raid linked to attacks on Friday that killed at least 92 people, media said. Both independent TV2 and the online Verdens Gang newspaper said police had detained several in Oslo. No confirmation was immediately available.Earlier, the suspect in Norway’s twin attacks that killed at least 92 people admitted responsibility and said the carnage was long planned as the nation mourned victims of its worst violence since World War II.Anders Behring Breivik, 32, was arrested for allegedly shooting at least 85 people dead at a youth Labour Party summer camp on an island and killing seven more in a car bomb explosion which ripped through government buildings in Oslo.“He admitted responsibility,” Behring Breivik’s lawyer Geir Lippestad said. While there was no official confirmation of the man’s identity, he was widely named as Anders Behring Breivik by local media.“He explained that it was cruel but that he had to go through with these acts,” Lippestad said, adding that the attacks were “apparently planned over a long period of time”.A rambling 1,500-page tract apparently written by Behring Breivik said he has been preparing the “martyrdom operation” since at least autumn 2009.
