A brief profile of the man behind Norway massacre

Anders Behring Breivik, 32, was arrested after a massacre of young people on a tiny forested holiday island that was hosting the annual summer camp for the youth wing of Norway's ruling Labor party.   

Breivik, a Norwegian, was also charged with the bombing of Oslo's government district that killed seven people hours earlier.   

Breivik had belonged to an anti-immigration party and wrote blogs attacking multi-culturalism and Islam.    

The suspect, tall and blond, owned an organic farming company called Breivik Geofarm, which a supply firm said he had used to buy fertilizer -- possibly to make the Oslo bomb.    

Officials had always pointed to Breivik's far-right views. "I think it's appropriate to underline that politically motivated violence that Norway has seen in the modern age has come from the extreme rightist side," Stoere, the foreign minister, said.      

A cached version of Breivik's Facebook describes a conservative Christian from Oslo.   

The profile veers between references to lofty political philosophers and gory popular films, television shows and video games. The site lists no "friends" or social connections.      

Breivik's profile lists interests including hunting, political and stock analysis, with tastes in music ranging from classical to trance, a hypnotic form of dance music.    

The Norwegian daily Verdens Gang quoted a friend as saying Breivik became a right-wing extremist in his late 20s. It said he expressed strong nationalistic views in online debates and had been a strong opponent of multi-culturalism.      

A Norwegian court sentenced Breivik to prison on Friday, denying prosecutors the insanity ruling they hoped would show that his massacre of 77 people was the work of a madman, not part of an anti-Muslim crusade.      

Breivik smiled with apparent satisfaction when Judge Wenche Elisabeth Arntzen read the ruling, declaring him sane enough to be held criminally responsible and sentencing him to "preventive detention," which means it is unlikely he will ever be released.      

But it also means Breivik got what he wanted: a ruling that paints him as a political terrorist instead of a psychotic mass murderer. Since his arrest, Breivik has said the attacks were meant to draw attention to his extreme right-wing ideology and to inspire a multi-decade uprising by "militant nationalists" across Europe.    

Prosecutors had argued Breivik was insane as he plotted his attacks to draw attention to a rambling "manifesto" that blamed Muslim immigration for the disintegration of European society. 

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