Norwegian man admits responsibilty for Oslo attacks, posts hate video on YouTube

Anders Behring Breivik, suspected for being chiefly responsible for twin attacks in and near Oslo that killed at least 92 people, has admitted responsibility, his lawyer told Norway’s NRK television channel.

Behring Breivik, 32, was detained for allegedly shooting at least 85 people dead at a youth Labour Party meeting on an island and killing seven more in a car bomb explosion which ripped through government buildings in Oslo.

“He admitted responsibility,” lawyer Geir Lippestad told the television station yesterday.

“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”.

Meanwhile Norwegian media attributed a long and hate-filled YouTube video featuring tirades against Islam, Marxism and multiculturalism to Breiving.

The 12-minute video alternates between praise for Medieval Crusaders and Islamophobic rants.

The film, which was removed from YouTube late yesterday for not conforming to the website’s rules, shows Behring Breiving in three photographs, including one where he aims an assault rifle.

The video was put on YouTube on the same day and describes Islam as “the main genocidal ideology”.

“Before beginning our Crusade, we must do our duty by decimating cultural Marxism,” reads one of the texts that appear in the video.

Posted by user BerwickAndrew, the film is in four chapters: The Rise of Cultural Marxism, Islamic Colonialism, Hope and Renewal.

Norwegian daily Dagbladet said the film is a summary of a reported 1,500 manifesto that Behring Breiving told police he had published under the pseudonym Andrew Berwick.

Friday’s attacks targeted left-wing symbols: the seat of the Labour-led government and a Labour Party youth camp. AFP