Norway Examines Breivik's Links to Djindjic's Killer

According to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), Norwegian police are currently investigating possible contacts between mass killer Anders Behring Breivik and Milorad Ulemek, a former Serbian secret police commander convicted of the 2003 murder of Serbia's then-prime minister Zoran Djindjic.

Breivik has told police that the organization that he represents, the Knights Templar, was created in 2002 as a result of the NATO bombing of Christians in Serbia, and that the reason he travelled to Liberia in the same year was to meet a Serbian war hero.

According to a police report seen by NRK, Breivik was probably inspired by several terrorists and killers who professed to be Christian, including a Serbian commander.

Norwegian media have also reported that Oslo Police sent a request for information about Ulemek to their Serbian colleagues on September 27, 2011.

In Serbia, Ulemek was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 40 years in prison for plotting to kill Djindjic on March 12, 2003, as the prime minister was entering government building in downtown Belgrade.

Breivik, who has confessed to a bomb attack in Oslo and mass shooting at an island camp on July 22 last year which killed 77 people, has declared that he took inspiration from the Balkan wars.

On the day of his attacks, Breivik released online a 1,500-page manifesto of his extreme nationalist philosophy, in which he says that events in the Balkans played a significant role in strengthening his resolve to carry out a massacre.