Probe finds Norwegian killer sane - Gayo Lues

According to the report, Anders Behring Breivik is criminally responsible for the massacre, AFP reported.

Breivik, 33, expressed satisfaction with the new results which contradict an initial investigation that said the right-wing extremist was suffering from “paranoid schizophrenia”.

The new probe comes nearly a week before the start of Breivik’s trial in Oslo. It opens the way for him to receive a jail term instead of psychiatric care.

Breivik’s lawyer Geir Lippestad says that his client plans on telling the court that his only regret is “not going further”.

The mass killer says being locked up in a psychiatric ward would be worse than death and he prefers to be jailed to protect his political message presented in his manifesto, published before the attacks.

Driven by his fascist and anti-Islamic beliefs, Breivik killed 77 people in a car bomb attack on the government headquarters in Oslo and a shooting rampage on Utoeya Island on July 22, 2011.

Most of the victims on the island of Utoeya were teenagers attending a summer camp hosted by the ruling Labor Party’s youth organization.

Many analysts believe the West is so obsessed with what it calls Islamic extremism that it has overlooked simmering homegrown terrorism among its own nationals.

SZH/JR