Medics and emergency workers escort an injured person from a camp site on the island of Utoya (AP)
Smoke rises from central Oslo after an explosion ripped through government buildings (AP/Scanpix)
Smoke rises from central Oslo after an explosion ripped through government buildings (AP/Scanpix)
A victim is treated outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents.(AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord)
Medics and emergency workers escort youths from a camp site on the island of Utoya, Norway Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island retreat, police said Saturday. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people fled the attack, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven. (AP Photo/Morten Edvardsen/Scanpix
An aerial view of Utoya Island, Norway taken Thursday, July 21, 2011
An injured woman is helped by a passerby, in a doorway in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris. The Prime Minister is not hurt
Two women are seen leaving as rescue workers arrive to help the injured following an explosion in Oslo, Norway Friday July 22, 2011
Medics and emergency workers escort an injured person from a camp site on the island of Utoya, Norway Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian dressed as a police officer gunned down at least 84 people at an island retreat, police said Saturday. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people fled the attack, which followed an explosion in nearby Oslo that killed seven
A tracked high speed mist fan is used to drag a damaged vehicle away from a building in central Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents
The wreckage of a car lies outside a building in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris. A loud explosion shattered windows Friday at the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime minister's office, injuring several people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press
A victim is treated outside government buildings in the center of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents. (AP Photo/Fartein Rudjord)
In this image taken from TV smoke and flames billow from the shattered window of a building after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011. A loud explosion shattered windows Friday in several buildings including the government headquarters in Oslo which includes the prime minister's office, injuring several people. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is safe, government spokeswoman Camilla Ryste told The Associated Press
The wreckagew of a car lies outside a building in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents.(AP Photo/Roald Berit, Scanpix, Norway)
An officer responds in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris
The scene after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011
The wreckage of a car lies outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2011, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering wiondows and covering the street with documents
Devastation caused after a powerful blast tore open several buildings (Holm Morten)
An aerial view of Utoya Island, where a Labour Party youth camp was attacked by a gunman (AP)
A woman walks through debris in a street following an explosion in Oslo, Norway Friday July 22, 2011. A powerful blast tore open several Oslo buildings including the prime minister's office on Friday
Victims receive treatment outside government buildings in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office
The scene after an explosion in Oslo, Norway, Friday July 22, 2011
Smoke rises from the central area of Oslo Friday, July 22, 2011 after an explosion. Terrorism ravaged long-peaceful Norway on Friday when a bomb ripped open buildings including the prime minister's office and a man dressed as a police officer opened fire at a nearby island youth camp. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Jon Bredo Overaas)
Wounded people are treated in the street in the centre of Oslo, Friday July 22, 2010, following an explosion that tore open several buildings including the prime minister's office, shattering windows and covering the street with documents and debris
By Jerome Taylor and PA
– 25 July 2011
Norway got a glimpse into the mind of a mass murderer yesterday as an extraordinary manifesto by Anders Behring Breivik emerged on the internet detailing a massacre eight years in the making.
The appearance of the 1,500-page document, which Breivik placed online before embarking on Friday's devastating attack, includes parts written by the suspect which were taken almost word for word from the writings of the American "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski.
The passages copied by Breivik appear in the first few pages of Kaczynski's manifesto. Breivik changed a Kaczynski screed on leftism and what he considered to be leftists' "feelings of inferiority" - mainly by substituting the words "multiculturalism" or "cultural Marxism" for "leftism".
According to the Daily Telegraph, Breivik identified a British mentor called Richard in his polemic. He claimed that he was recruited by two English right-wing extremists at a meeting in the UK in 2002, which seven other people attended.
The writings also provide a detailed - and terrifying - portrait of a meticulous and calculated planner who contrived to ensure maximum casualties and that he wouldn't be caught.
Entitled "2083 - A European Declaration of Independence", the manifesto reveals how the six-foot bodybuilder spent eight years planning his attacks.
Breivik is reported to hold extreme Christian fundamentalist views and is understood to have criticised multi-culturalism and Muslim immigration in his manifesto.
The image that has begun to emerge is of a man with a disconnected and shadowy past.
A loner who had few friends, he seemed to spend much of his spare time frequenting internet forums for far-right activists, neo-Nazis and Christian fundamentalists.
A former member of Norway's anti-immigrant Progress Party, Breivik apparently loved violent video games like the best-selling Modern Warfare and said his favourite TV show was Dexter, the popular HBO drama about a serial killer who murders evil people.
Unlike many mass murderers, who kill themselves rather than be taken, Breivik surrendered to police. And unlike the victims of the past killers, his were not randomly slaughtered, or in the wrong place at the wrong time. Each was targeted for their links to Norway's Labour Party.
Caroline Slatti (22) a neighbour who lives in the same block of flats on Hoffsveien, remembered a quiet but unremarkable man with a sociable mother who tended to his every need.
"He looked like an ordinary guy, he was just like anybody else," she said. "I didn't know him all that well but his mother is really friendly. She dotes on him and always talks about him."
As police investigated the suspect's background, details emerged of his possible affiliations with extremists in the UK.
The right-wing English Defence League, with whom he was said to have been involved, denied that Breivik (32) had any links with them and said they "vehemently" opposed his actions.
In a statement on its website the group wrote: "Terrorism and extremism of any kind is never acceptable and we pride ourselves on opposing these."
The Nordic Defence League also distanced itself from the killings, posting a message on its Facebook page saying: "We condemn this act of terror no matter who or where this came from!"
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