The manifesto detailing Norwegian mass-killer suspect Anders Behring Breivik’s murderous “crusade” gives a chilling picture of a self-confessed “monster.” ? ANDERS BEHRING BREIVIK, as evident from his purported manifesto, was nothing if not patient. Though the world didn’t know of Breivik until July 22’s attacks, his road to violence began in his teens, when he first started honing his abhorrence for Islam. The 32-year-old Norwegian waited years before setting off on his vicious, self-confessed rampage last week that killed eight in a bombing in central Oslo and left dozens more dead at a nearby island youth camp. He bought a farm as a front to procure fertilizer for bombs and planned other details meticulously, down to the photos of himself he wanted distributed among media outlets after his arrest, he wrote. It’s now been revealed that parts of his 1,518-page egomaniacal treatise were lifted from right-wing blogs. In the manifesto, he wrote of joining Knights Templar Europe, a revolutionary group he lauded for its “crusader nationalism,” in 2002 after becoming disenchanted with Norway’s conservative Progress Party. He blamed the media for vilifying his party and denounced democracy as an institution. “Armed struggle appears futile at this point,” he wrote, “but it is the only way forward.” Despite what he called his “privileged upbringing,” Breivik appears to have begun fostering a hatred for Muslims from an early age, according the manifesto, titled “2083: A European Declaration of Independence.” Breivik joined Oslo’s hip-hop movement at age 12 and by 15 was the most active graffiti artist in the Norwegian capital, he wrote. He had Muslim friends and hung out with violent Pakistani street gangs, which he said was essential to the safety of Norwegian teens in Oslo. “Unless you had Muslim contacts you could easily be subject to harassment, beatings and robbery. Our alliances with the Muslim gangs were strictly seen as a necessity for us, at least for me,” the manifesto states. Breivik wrote that he left the hip-hop community when he was 16, the same year he was attacked by “an older and much stronger/bigger Pakistani,” one in a series of assaults Breivik said he suffered at the hands of Muslim youth. After this incident, he ended his friendship with a Pakistani named Arsalan, and he and his Norwegian pals no longer enjoyed the protection of Muslim street gangs. “From now on we would have to arm ourselves whenever we went to parties in case Muslim gangs showed up,” he wrote. Despite staying in his own west Oslo neighborhood, Breivik was attacked or confronted at least once a year until he was 21, he wrote. He alleges most of the assaults were unprovoked, though he concedes he “contributed” to one of the incidents when he was 20 by uttering profanities at a girl who pushed him and called him a name at Burger King. Though he suffered a broken nose in a fight with a Pakistani gang when he was 18, he boasts he was able to outsmart or negotiate with the Muslim “savages” in most cases. Fighting with them, he wrote, was not his policy “under normal circumstances.” “As all my friends can attest to I wouldn’t be willing to hurt a fly and I have never used violence against others,” he wrote. “If we wanted to we could have harassed and beaten up dozens of Muslim youth. However, as we didn’t share their savage mentality, violence was pointless.” Breivik, it seems, does not fit in a tidy compartment. He is a man of contradictions. He describes himself as optimistic yet pragmatic and as a “cultural conservative” with liberal economic views. His diatribes against Islam and calls for violence are littered with winky-face emoticons and playful Internet lingo like “lol.” His manifesto includes an image of him in preppy dress, a collar popped over the neck of his sweater. In other photos, he sports a variety of dress: a sensible suit, a hazmat outfit, elaborate military regalia and a frogman’s jumpsuit with a shoulder patch that reads, “Marxist Hunter.” He also claims to be a moderately religious Protestant who would like to see the denomination absorbed by Catholicism. This paradox, perhaps, is nothing compared to his claim of being Christian while confessing to having disregarded the Bible’s least debatable commandment. Breivik’s massacre, according to police, began about 3:20 p.m. July 22 — less than three hours after Breivik concluded his online treatise, saying, “I believe this will be my last entry. It is now Fri July 22nd, 12.51.” The week was winding down in Oslo, and many people were heading home for the weekend. Video and photos from the scene show blasts shattered windows on all six floors of a building housing the Petroleum and Energy Ministry. Across the street, the bomb’s shrapnel almost reached the top offices of the 17-story government headquarters where Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s office is located. If the manifesto attributed to Breivik is a blueprint, he took great pains to ensure his bomb had maximum impact — and he left what appear to be instructions to like-minded saboteurs. Several pages of the document outline a plan to buy various chemicals and more than a ton of nitrogen fertilizer for bombmaking. Breivik tells his would-be followers to create a company, preferably a year or two before ordering the fertilizer, and join an organization of small- to medium-sized farmers. He suggests learning how to distribute the fertilizer and use the chemicals legitimately in case the agricultural supplier poses “security questions.” “I haven’t actually used this method yet, myself, but this is the approach I will select shortly,” he wrote. “I guess you will soon find out if I succeed or not. Remember, confidence separates the winners from the losers, so good luck.” According to his lawyer and police, Breivik wasn’t finished after his bomb. He traveled to Utoya Island and, about 90 minutes after the blast, began shooting at campers attending a youth camp organized by the Labor Party, one of many sources of Breivik’s angst. A hospital chief surgeon said he had never seen wounds like those suffered by the victims and speculated that Breivik may have used expanding bullets, according to a hospital spokesman. Survivor Otzar Fagerheim said Breivik had three guns and shot them calmly, as if he were taking photographs. He smiled at times, Fagerheim said. An elite police unit finally arrived to seize Breivik about 6:27 p.m., after nearly 90 minutes of firing. (SD-Agencies) | 