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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
While Breivik has confessed to the attacks, he denies that he is criminally responsible.
I would expect that his first court date is going to be fairly quick, but I have no doubt that he is going to see this trial as his bully pulpit.
I think its going to be really tough for him to defend himself on state of mind considering his manifesto, his ability to plan a fairly complex plan and his lack of mercy when he was shooting people trying to flee.
I'm still convinced that he had help though, this was an oklahoma city bomb, and while its fairly easy to find the recipe for building a fertilizer bomb on the net (I just did, hopefully the cops don't bust my door down tonight) The timing of this attack was planned out in detail, and he clearly had either gathered or had someone gather intelligence for him.
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It's impressively planned but like the 9/11 attacks, it wouldn't take a genius to do it. . . . . . . just patience and attention to detail. . . . . . and a nation that was overconfident and wasn't paying enough attention.
The most complicated part would be building the bomb and you found the instructions yourself on the net easy enough.
I'm sure all his associates will be vetted thoroughly but I don't see why its difficult to believe one person could do it.
What stands out solely for me is, even if you have strong convictions, going about killing 90 teenagers through an hour and a half, continuing to pull that trigger even after the initial thrill/shock of seeing the first of them exploding and falling. At some point, you would think some kind of mental fatigue would set in, that the screams would create some self-doubt. But he kept at it.
A well-motivated, sane person could have done the bomb and started the attack on the island but only a truly insane one could have kept hunting and shooting for another hour or more.
Cowperson