08/24/12: Al Jazeera reports a Norwegian court has found that Anders Behring Breivik is sane and criminally responsible for the murder of seventy-seven people in a terrorist attack last year, sending him to jail for at least twenty-one years and dismissing the prosecution’s request for an insanity verdict. Breivik, who was sentenced on Friday, has admitted detonating a fertilizer bomb outside government headquarters, killing eight, before shooting sixty-nine at the ruling party’s summer youth camp. The sentence is likely to be extended, probably for the rest of his life. Breivik said he targeted the ruling centre-left Labour Party for its support of Muslim immigration. He dismissed being called a child murderer, arguing that his victims, some as young as fourteen, were brainwashed activists whose support for multiculturalism threatened to adulterate pure Norwegian blood.

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