Everyone should read this, portrait of a killer, written by journalist in out state channel, Peter Svaar, who was Anders Behring Breivik's class mate.
"I remember the shy little boy. Occupied by U.S. hip-hop clothes from the clothes shop Jean-TV in Arcade in downtown Oslo. Commitment to training and diet. If I should describe him, I would say that I remember him as kind. Loyal to those who were his friends. Intelligent. Will Strong.
The same man who has killed perhaps 100 people, most of them children, in a fake police uniform. Large cooler is not the culprit.
I remember a warm early summer evening on Hvasser in 1994: the end of the class 9A at Rice School. We were on an island in the archipelago of Tjøme. The school had made with great care. Someone had posted holiday site for disposal. We grilled hot dogs and pinnebrød on fire. We were lucky that the 9 years of schooling was over. Felt like a tight group. Had experienced so much together; surreptitiously drinking on leisure club. Worn out teacher substitutes. Been to a party at the home of one another. Later in the night lost someone to Kline in the bushes. Anders Behring Breivik was one of us that night.
Anders Behring Breivik is, as far as I can consider that, unfortunately, not insane. It would have made everything so much easier if he was. The image of the mad knight temple, drugged on steroids, is likely to sell newspapers. It had created a comfortable distance between him and us if it were so.
But nothing I know about him from the years I knew him, or what I have since read in his so-called manifesto, suggests that he is crazy or disturbed.
On the contrary. I got the impression of him as cold and intelligent designing. Everything that happened after the bomb went off at 15.26 on Friday afternoon has been following his plan. My biggest fear now is that he is still playing us - the media, public opinion - like a piano.
What keeps me awake at night now that he's not a monster. He is a regular, Norwegian boy. He has dug itself into a completely insane policy analysis, and unfortunately been resourceful enough to follow his reasoning into practical action.
He would be taken. He has admitted everything. He have requested - and received - a defender who is Labor member. He writes that the propaganda phase starts at the arrest. For the open court he will propagandize for his twisted point of view, with the world press at the property counter. If possible, in uniform! One can say much about such a strategy, but it's not a crazy man's work. It is a calculating, ressursterk and intelligent man's work. Anders has a goal, and he is still only halfway there. The rest of us have read the document his understanding of how he thinks, to fight him.
"For us as grilled sausages on that summer night in 1994 is today two are doctors. One, a marine biologist. One is the pr-adviser. I was a journalist at NRK. And Anders Behring Breivik was mass murderer. "
Peter Svaar
Back to Class 9A. Anders was the boy who ended up in trouble with the police, and lost contact with his father because he was caught for tagging in the city center. He was the boy who decided to start exercising, and eventually trained every morning before school at Steve's Gym in downtown Oslo. I remember he told me that he went there every morning at 6 It made an impression. Anders was one that could decide on a goal, and implement it - even if it took weeks, months, years. Muscular, he was. He reached his goal through regular and long effort. He was tenacious.
Perhaps the kind of toughness that makes a man to argue with the events in 2083 for killing 100 innocent today. The kind of toughness that makes a man to start an agricultural company two years in advance, to be able to buy tons of fertilizer unnoticed. But Norway fostered such a man. He is one of us.
A colleague in VG called Saturday. He had got hold of the yearbook from Rice that year we went out, 1994. I did not have much to say. But then the so-called manifesto discovered. 1500 pages, mostly taken from other sources, not to mention Timothy McVeigh. But in between all the stuff from the theft, including pages that describe me and us in class 9A. Many full name. It referred to the Norwegian-Pakistani I felt that maybe it was Anders closest friend at the time. He should have opened Anders' eyes that Muslims did not have NOK respect for the Norwegians.
Peter Svaar was just Grubbegaten after the explosion, and reported live for NRK. The shock was great when he later found out who was responsible.
Chance would have it that I was on the scene in Grubbegaten just minutes after it slammed on Friday. No one knew who was responsible. Only after I got home at night after long hours of direct reporting, I heard that Tommy Behring Breivik was arrested on Utøya. It was a shock. I thought the first did not.
Anders!? We grew up together. How could you choose a direction for your life? You have never lacked anything!
I lived in London when it slammed 7 June 2005. The perpetrators had then at least more reason to be angry with the society around him, and minority youth with poor prospects for careers in class society the United Kingdom. Anders is the opposite. He has had every opportunity. As far as I know never lacked anything. Not been victim of some injustice from society. Where does this hatred come from?
"Anders!? We grew up together. How could you choose a direction for your life? You have never lacked anything! "
Peter Svaar
He has planned this down to the smallest detail. Surviving Facebook profile with all the pictures of himself as the press can use. Twitter Account with a screwed quote from John Stuart Mill. Both created on July 17 this year. A video. And thus a kind of manifesto - or what to call it. A long text made up of many sources. But it also contains a diary describing the metikuløse planning day by day.
Anders knew he would be arrested. I fear more than anything else that we are now dancing in his great plan. He knew he would be portrayed as a monster, so he writes in the manifesto as much detail about his life, and also about class 9A. He has not admitted guilt, but he admits to having carried out the attacks. Of course he is 21 years, but he does not fear his punishment. In his head he is a martyr. A hero. Misunderstood by his contemporaries, but with a place in history books.
I still do not understand how such a complete, planned evil is possible. Especially not from someone I've known, who have grown up in the same circuit and surroundings as myself. How to end a man of such ideologically misguided? Where do his willingness to plan for years? Using months to build a bomb. Research bomb parts on the Internet. Starting a business to buy fertilizer. Planning the mass killing. It is then carried out cold. I do not understand it, and do not know if one can understand.
It has gone well with many in the Class 9A: of us who grilled sausages the summer in 1994 is today two are doctors. A, a marine biologist. One is the per-adviser. I was a journalist at NRK. And Anders Behring Breivik was mass murderer.
I used Google translate for this. It's really good.
