Norway Shooter Will Call Islamic Extremists as Defense Witnesses

[Billybob]

[But given his client’s wishes, he will instead portray Breivik as sane, but as an extremist. To bolster his case, he told Le Monde he plans to call Mullah Krekar, an Islamic extremist now resident in Norway, as a witness. Krekar, who once headed Ansar al-Islam, an Islamist group in Kurdish Iraq, has admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden and requesting backing for his group.

Lippestad said he wants to demonstrate that “Islamists also believe that Europe is the setting for a war of religion” and that therefore Breivik’s believe in such a conflict is not delusional...]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlin...call-islamic-extremists-as-defense-witnesses/

 

[ignerntbend]

Yep, the only reason he murdered those 69 kids was to make a point about Islamic extremism. Here's a case that tempts me rethink my position on the death penalty.

 

[Billybob]

Yep, the only reason he murdered those 69 kids was to make a point about Islamic extremism. Here's a case that tempts me rethink my position on the death penalty.

That's what he said from the beginning. Those killed were the children of a specific political party.