Norway honors terror victims

Memorial service honors Norway victimsYouth leader vows that the Labour Party's youth movement will return to UtoyaA memorial service for victims of the attacks takes place in OsloThe first two funerals, both for teenagers, are heldAnders Behring Breivik was questioned by police

Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- Norway paid tribute Friday to those killed and wounded in two terror attacks a week ago with a somber memorial service in Oslo organized by the youth movement of the ruling Labour Party.

As the service began, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg recalled the scores of young people lost to a "cold-blooded massacre."

Police raised the death toll from 76 to 77 Friday after one of the wounded died.

The shooter targeted the party's youth camp on Utoya Island, where it was holding a summer camp, after a bombing in downtown Oslo that struck government offices.

"The shots hit our young people but they actually hurt the whole nation," Stoltenberg told relatives of the victims and political leaders attending the service. "It was a vicious attack on all our common values."

The prime minister urged young Norwegians not to feel alone as they struggled to come to terms with what happened, saying the party would support them.

"Out of our grief a much stronger unity will arise," he said. "We are going to honor and celebrate our heroes -- but most of all we are going stay true to our ideas and our values."

Workers Youth League leader Eskil Pedersen, who was on Utoya during the shootings, vowed that the youth movement would return to the island where it has held political summer camps every year for decades.

"Today, we promise that July 22 next year we will be back at Utoya," he said. "We will forever be the generation of July 22. That is a great responsibility," he added. "This is a watershed, a new start and beginning of something lasting and important."

The first funerals for victims of the attacks took place Friday, for Bano Rashid, 18, and Ismail Haji Ahmed, 19.

Rashid, who was laid to rest in a Christian and Muslim ceremony, was reported to be a Kurd who came to Norway with her family in 1996 after fleeing Iraq.

Flags on government buildings were flown Friday at half-staff.

Meanwhile, Anders Behring Breivik, the suspect, was interrogated for a second time Friday, police said.

Investigators had interviewed him a day after the attacks, but had more questions, police attorney Pal-Frederick Hjort Kraby said.

Breivik is being kept in solitary confinement at Ila Prison, near Oslo, which held Nazi prisoners during World War II. His sole contacts are with his lawyer and prison staffers who take food to him, Kraby said.

Breivik has admitted carrying out the bombing in Oslo, in which eight people died, and the shootings on Utoya, his lawyer and a judge have said. He has also pleaded not guilty.

Police said Thursday that the search in the water around the island was ongoing.

More than 50 investigators remained on the island and will likely remain there for several more weeks, officials said.

On Friday, authorities completed the identification of the dead, releasing the names of all 77.

A key question for investigators is whether Breivik acted alone.

"At this moment in time we don't think there are more people involved in this action, and we don't know whether there are more bombs," said Janne Kristiansen, director of the Norwegian intelligence police.

But she downplayed the possibility of further carnage.

"We think, more than likely, he has been on his own and nothing is going to happen here," she said. "So people should go on living their lives."

She said Breivik acted lawfully during his preparations, registering his weapons and used his farm as a front to collect the fertilizer that powered the bomb. His meticulousness extended to his communications with others, even in his Internet messages, which were "very moderate," she said.

"He has been what we call a lone wolf," she added. "With a lone wolf, they always operate alone, having no accomplices anywhere, and this is, obviously, what he has done."

But, she added, "We believe that he might have had contacts in the rest of the world and we're investigating this."

His primary goal: "The focus from the world press, which he now has," Kristiansen said. "He's totally evil, and he's using us, and he's using you -- especially the media -- to bring forward his voice."

Police predicted that most of the court hearings attended by Breivik will be closed to the public.

CNN's Laura Smith-Spark and Nic Robertson contributed to this report.

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Police: Norway suspect says he acted alone

Norway shooting survivors reactNEW: Police raid an area in eastern Oslo in connection with Friday's bombing, they say"Soon, names and photographs will be released," the prime minister saysThe man accused in Norway's twin terror attacks says he acted alonePolice are looking into a 1,500-page manifesto purportedly written by the suspect

Oslo, Norway (CNN) -- The man accused of killing at least 92 people in Norway has said he carried out the bombing and mass shooting, authorities said Sunday, as an ashen-faced and openly weeping King Harald V led the nation in mourning.

The suspect has has not pleaded guilty, and said he acted alone with no accomplice, acting National Police Chief Sveinung Sponheim told reporters Sunday.

Also on Sunday, police conducted an operation in the eastern Oslo area of Slettelokka in connection with the bombing, police spokesman Anders Frydenberg told CNN.

The raid came as Norwegians gathered at a cathedral in the capital, just a few hundred meters from where the bomb exploded Friday, to mourn the victims of the attacks.

Police have not identified the suspect, though local television and newspaper reports have identified the man in custody as 32-year-old Anders Behring Breivik.

Attorney Geir Lippestad, who claimed to represent Breivik, told TV2 late Saturday that his client "is ready to explain himself" on Monday when it is anticipated he will make his first court appearance. Breivik believed the terrorist attacks were "horrible," but "in his head (they) were necessary," Lippestad said.

CNN was unsuccessful in its attempts to reach Lippestad for comment.

The revelation came as a 1,500-page manifesto purportedly written by Breivik surfaced.

Norwegian authorities would not confirm that the man in their custody wrote the manifesto, saying it would be part of the investigation.

"The manifesto was released on the same day the atrocities happened," Sponheim said.

"It's also new to us. We will look into the details of the manifesto."

The document, apparently compiled over a period of nine years, rants against Muslims and their growing presence in Europe, and calls for a European civil war to overthrow governments, end multiculturalism and execute "cultural Marxists."

While they have arrested only one suspect, Sponheim said authorities have not ruled out the possibility that someone else was involved in the shooting at a political youth retreat on Utoya island. Statements from witnesses to the mass shooting "make it uncertain if it was more than one person," Sponheim said.

At least four people have not been accounted following the shooting on Utoya island that left at least 85 people dead, and authorities are searching the waters for victims who may have drowned trying to escape the shooter.

Authorities also are searching for bodies of victims in the bomb attack in downtown Oslo where an explosion badly damaged a number of government buildings as well as the majority Labour Party office.

"We know that there are remains of bodies in the ruins of the buildings. And it's a bit of a jigsaw puzzle and a very difficult search. There are body parts in the buildings," Sponheim said.

Seven people have been confirmed dead from the bomb attack. Police said that the explosive was in a car.

At least 97 people were wounded in the attacks -- 30 in the blast and 67 in the mass shooting, Sponheim said. The identities of the victims will be released once all the next-of-kin have been notified, he said.

At the service Sunday, billed by the church as a "Mass for grief and hope," Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called the attacks "incomprehensible."

"Soon, names and photographs will be released. The enormity of the evilness will surface in all its horror, and that will be a new test for us all," Stoltenberg said.

"In the middle of all the tragedy, I am proud to live in a country that has managed to stand tall."

Other new details emerged Saturday about the attacks.

An employee at a Norwegian agricultural cooperative told CNN that the man identified in media reports as the suspect bought six tons of fertilizer from her company in May.

Oddmy Estenstad, of Felleskjopet Agr, said she did not think the order was strange at the time because the suspect has a farm, but after Friday's explosion in Norway's capital, Oslo, she called police because she knew the material can be used to make bombs.

"We are very shocked that this man was connected to our company," said Estenstad. "We are very sad about what happened."

Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday offered his "fervent prayers for the victims and families, invoking God's peace upon the dead and divine consolation upon those who suffer."

"At this time of national grief he prays that all Norwegians will be spiritually united in a determined resolve to reject the ways of hatred and conflict and to work together fearlessly in a shaping a future of mutual respect, solidarity and freedom from for coming generations," according to a statement released by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone on behalf of the pope.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed U.S. solidarity with Norway.

"The United States strongly condemns any kind of terrorism no matter where it comes from or who perpetuates it, and this tragedy strikes right at the heart of the soul of a peaceful people," she said in a statement.

Together with Norway's king, queen and crown prince, Stoltenberg visited with victims' family members and survivors of the attacks at a hotel.

CNN's Chelsea J. Carter, Jim Boulden, Laura Smith-Spark, Joe Sterling, Moni Basu, Chelsea Bailey, Claudia Rebaza and Cynthia Wamwayi contributed to this report.

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