Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik yesterday boasted about his plans to behead Norway's revered former Prime Minister and post a video of her decapitation on the internet.
Breivik, 33, told the court he had planned to capture Gro Harlem Brundtland, a respected international figure and leading member of Norway's ruling Labour Party who served as the country's first and only woman Prime Minister in the 1980s.
Brundtland had been a guest at the Labour Party youth camp on Utoya island only hours before Breivik arrived on July 22 and began shooting. Breivik said Brundtland had been a key target. But she was ferried off the island before his arrival.
The right-wing extremist, who has claimed he was part of a crusade against the "Islamification" of Europe, said he had been inspired by al-Qaeda beheading techniques.
He also revealed that he intended to kill all of the nearly 600 young socialists at the camp: "The goal was not to kill 69 people on Utoya. The goal was to kill them all," he said.
