• Breivik says ‘trained’ for attacks using computer game • Denies being a loner, despite playing games incessantly • Accused say originally planned three car bombs • Wanted to film decapitation of former prime minister • Journalists were identified as potential targets Read the Guardian’s latest news story 1.31pm: Breivik boasts that he could have killed the Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, if he had so desired . #Breivik “If I had decided to execute Stoltenburg I would have managed, but I decided to go for different kind of operation.” — Paul Brennan (@paulrbrennan) April 19, 2012 1.25pm: Helen Pidd , in Oslo, has written this account of the last session, the most harrowing in the trial so far. Anders Behring Breivik has claimed he didn’t want to carry out the gun massacre that left 69 dead on the island of Utøya., but that he was “forced” to do so because Norwegian and EU regulations had made it difficult to acquire sufficient bomb making equipment. Giving evidence on the fourth day of his trial, the 33-year-old said he would have preferred to carry out three bomb attacks rather than target Utøya., where the Norwegian Labour party was holding its annual youth summer camp on 22 July last year.

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