Explosion Norway

[Jan Klimkowski]

Several snippets of provocative material here:

Breivik had plastic surgery in the US.

Breivik created very nasty dum-dum bullets using the liquid nicotine he ordered from China (see excerpts from his writings above).

He lost a small fortune on the stock market in 1997, when he would have been 18.

One of the murdered was the stepbrother of Norway's Crown Princess.

One of the Daily Telegraph's anonymous "sources" claims to have helped Breivik join the freemasons.

:gossip: That last has set my antennae twitching. Where would the Telegraph have obtained such a confidential, intimate, source?

My instinct is that this is a deliberate leaking of information into the public domain, potentially by British intelligence. NB a lot of this went on in the case of the British spy found dead in the sports bag in an MI6 safehouse.

So, taking a look at that specific information:

A friend, who did not wish to be named but who had helped him join the Freemasons, said: "He had many friends but I remember he lost all of his money on the stock market in 1997. He lost shares worth about 2 million kroner (£227,000).

"He always took care of his mother and she was very dependent on him."

So, are intelligence sources attempting to slur Breivik with the "mother's boy" slur?

Another friend disclosed that the right wing extremist had travelled to the US for plastic surgery on his face.

He said: "He had surgery on his forehead, nose and chin and said he was very satisfied with the results.

"I never saw him with a woman but he used to say that he would start dating again once he had fixed his face. He always wanted to be rich."

Are intelligence sources attempting to create the legend of a vain, shallow and self-obsessed man?

In my judgement, these leaks to the Telegraph provide corroborating evidence to the hypothesis that Breivik was either a British intelligence asset, or directly handled by British intelligence.


Article in full:

Norway shooting: stepbrother of Crown Princess among those killed by Anders Breivik

The step-brother of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit was among those killed during Anders Behring Breivik's deadly rampage at a youth summer camp

By Victoria Ward8:30PM BST 25 Jul 2011

Because he was wearing a police uniform she approached him to talk about the bomb blast in Oslo but became suspicious by his evasive answers.

As soon as the boat docked she ran over to Mr Berntsen to alert him but Breivik realised that they had clocked him and shot them both immediately, Mrs Bosei, an accountant whose two daughters were also at the camp but survived, was his first victim.

A witness said: "The 32-year-old gunman didn't hesitate for one second as he launched his murderous rampage."

Harald Olsen, 46, a union representative and friend of Mr Berntsen whose own two sons had been due to attend the camp, said he would not have hesitated before approaching Breivik.

He said: "My friend often worked at the camp. He is the sort of guy who would not be afraid to approach anyone and ask them what they were doing."

It was claimed that Breivik told police he had targeted Norway's former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Bruntland who had hosted a seminar at the camp.

But he got held up in traffic as drove to the island after detonating the bomb at government headquarters in central Oslo and missed her by just half an hour.

"He could not drive any quicker or he would have aroused suspicions," a source said.

Mrs Bruntland, former Labour leader, won three general elections and is highly regarded for her work as director general of the World Health Organisation. She now works as a special envoy for climate change to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. A police spokesman refused to comment on the reports.

Breivik has told police that he modified dum-dum bullets to ensure they caused as much devastation as possible and claimed that he had drawn up more plans to bring terror to Oslo but had failed to carry them out.

He admitted that by cutting the tops off the bullets and injecting them with pure liquid nicotine ordered from China, he guaranteed that the lethal weapon would inflict maximum pain on his victims.

Dr Colin Poole, from Ringriket Hospital in Honefoss, north-west of Oslo, said: "Those on the dead brought in from the island are the worst I've ever seen. "They are very difficult to x-ray because the bullets just shatter everything into tiny pieces."

It also emerged yesterday that Breivik was an insecure man who was desperate to become rich and who once had cosmetic surgery to improve his chances of getting a girlfriend.

He lost all his money on the stock market in 1997 when he was 19, just four years before he started plotting last week's atrocity.

A friend, who did not wish to be named but who had helped him join the Freemasons, said: "He had many friends but I remember he lost all of his money on the stock market in 1997. He lost shares worth about 2 million kroner (£227,000).

"He always took care of his mother and she was very dependent on him."

Another friend disclosed that the right wing extremist had travelled to the US for plastic surgery on his face.

He said: "He had surgery on his forehead, nose and chin and said he was very satisfied with the results.

"I never saw him with a woman but he used to say that he would start dating again once he had fixed his face. He always wanted to be rich."

Other friends expressed shock at Breivik's actions, describing him as a "very polite man who was always well dressed".