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rhody said:Some main points the experts made (based mostly on news reports and them examining his 1500 page rambling manifesto) and no direct contact was:
a: Has narcissistic tendencies (I agree), speaks of using makeup and looking your best before addressing the media
b: Wants to be the center of attention (I agree)
c: Methodical and meticulous in his planning (mention was made to him acquiring the fertilizer, and how it easily a red flag could have been raised) (he rented a farm house in the country about a month before the attack to quietly assemble his truck bomb)
d: Has long term goal of inspiring others to continue his cause even as he is placed in prision
e: Toward the end of the program it said contrary to news reports he tended to be a loner, and was considered "odd" by others who knew him.
f: There was a confusing report by one of the survivors who asked him to spare his life while he shot others on the beach, that he passed him by, and later it said this same person survived by hiding under the dead bodies of others. I empathize with his account, but was a bit surprised this inconsistency slipped through. I DVR'd the program and will watch it again to see if I missed something, or got my facts incorrect.
Overall, I would give the program a B .. B+. Definitely not of "60 Minutes" quality, but decent. We won't know much more until world class experts are allowed access to him.
Rhody...
The biggest punishment IMO that he can receive at the moment is not to be allowed to address the media. This is what he longs for. I still have a hard time believing he could look people in the eye up close and personal and simply execute them, there is nothing more horrendous than that, at least not to me.
Concerning f):
I believe Adrian (who I think this was) didn't believe he would be so absurdly lucky that Breivik would spare him again if he returned, and crawled under some bodies to hide.
However, in the panicked, adrenalin-rushed state of these poor youths, it is more than probable that many of them suffered auditory/optical hallucinations to put them in some type of survival hyperdrive.
Several have, for example, said that their conception of time was extremely inconsistent; sometimes it moved slowly,at other times extremely fast.
One girl who had been swimming quite some time asserted that she could hear Breivik laugh as he aimed bullets at her.
She might well have been out of hearing range at that point, or possibly not.