The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told investigators he also considered attacking other targets linked to the government or the prime minister's Labor Party, police said Saturday.
Norwegians began a solemn day of memorials on Friday for victims of last week's bomb and shooting massacre, and the first funerals for the 76 victims were being held.
Norway's prime minister struck a defiant tone Wednesday, saying the response to twin attacks that have rocked his country will be "more democracy."
The self-described perpetrator of the mass killings in Norway told authorities there that he expects to spend the rest of his life in prison but two other cells in his terror network could still launch attacks.
Norwegian police think gunman Anders Behring Breivik is probably a lone wolf, a view also held by some researchers who cast doubt on his claim that he was working with two other cells.
The self-described perpetrator of Norway's deadly bombing and shooting rampage was ordered held in solitary confinement Monday
The confessed killer of 76 people in Friday's bomb and gun attacks in Norway described Japan as a model country in a document he distributed on the Internet, praising it for shying away from multiculturalism.
The 32-year-old suspected of massacring at least 80 young people at a summer camp and setting off a bomb in downtown Oslo that killed at least seven is a mystery to investigators: a right-winger with anti-Muslim views but no known links to hardcore extremists.
A Norwegian court says the prosecution will request eight weeks of pretrial detention for the suspect in the country's terror attacks.
Norway will remain an open society despite Friday's twin attacks that killed at least 92 people, the country's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said Saturday.
The man who has confessed to carrying out a bombing and shooting spree that left 93 people dead in Norway will be held in isolation for four weeks after he said his terror network had two other cells.