Norway: Police says Oslo suspect (Anders Behring Breivik) admits facts in massacre, unknown group Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (Helpers of Global Jihad) is not responsable for attack
The Norwegian man charged with the attacks in and near Oslo that killed over 90 people has admitted “to the facts” of the case, the police and his lawyer said on Sunday, and says he acted alone in a strike eerily foretold in a detailed manifesto calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination.
But “he is not admitting criminal guilt,” the acting police chief in Oslo, Sveinung Sponheim, told a news conference, and his claim to have acted alone contrasted with “some of the witness statements,” Reuters reported.
The attacks on Friday — a bombing in central Oslo closely followed by a bloody rampage against young people on nearby Utoya Island — was the deadliest attack in this Nordic nation since World War II, and it stunned many in a population of about five million who consider their country to be a haven of peace.