1 of 6. Defendant Anders Behring Breivik (R) is seen with his lawyer Geir Lippestad during the third day of proceedings in the courthouse in Oslo April 18, 2012. 
 
 OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik said on Wednesday he should be executed or acquitted after killing 77 people last summer in what he said was a battle to defend Europe against mass immigration. 
 
 "There are only two just outcomes to this case -- acquittal or the death penalty," the 33-year-old said, calling the prospect of a prison sentence "pathetic". 
 
 Norway has no death penalty and formal sentencing cannot exceed 21 years, though Breivik could be held the rest of his life if he is judged to pose a continuing danger. He could also be sentenced indefinitely to a mental institution. 
 
 "If you embrace death before you go into action, you will be ten times as potent," Breivik said. "I have embraced death." 
 
 Breivik made the statement after a grueling day of testimony in which prosecutors challenged his presentation of himself as a crusader defending Europe from immigration on behalf of a group of militant nationalists. 
 
 "I hope that you don't spend more time on trying to ridicule me," Breivik told prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh at one point. 
 
 Breivik, who killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo on July 22 and then shot 69 at a Labour Party summer youth camp, went on trial on Monday. 
 
 He pleaded not guilty to terrorism and murder charges on grounds of "necessity" and has called his victims "traitors" with immigrant-friendly ideas. 
 
 Asked how he had changed from a teenage vandal on Oslo's prosperous west side to a methodical killer, he said he helped found a militant group called the "Knights Templar" in 2001 but refused to give any details to back up the claim. 
 
 The original Knights Templar were a medieval brotherhood of European knights that prosecuted anti-Islamic crusades. 
 
 Breivik deflected five straight questions about supposed allies and repeatedly tried to tell prosecutors how to phrase themselves. He became visibly irritated and swiveled a pen in his hand. 
 
 "Your intention is to sow doubt whether this network existed," he said. 
 
 After the attacks, police and Western security agencies tried to confirm Breivik's claim that allies were plotting new actions and that there were some 80 active "cells" in Europe. Norwegian police said they concluded Breivik was a lone wolf. 
 
 With sweat showing on his forehead, Breivik said on Wednesday the figure of 80 cells was "an estimate" and hesitated when asked the basis for it. "I don't know," he said. "At the outset we were 15 people." 
 
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 Breivik's trial, to last 10 weeks, turns on the question of his sanity and thus whether he can be jailed. He has said that an insanity ruling would be "worse than death". 
 
 One court-appointed team of psychiatrists concluded he was psychotic, while a second team found him to be of sound mind. 
 
 On Wednesday he came off as "childishly defiant," Tore Sinding Bekkedal, a survivor of the island massacre, said during a break. "He's trying to steer the proceedings and failing." 
 
 "He gets himself slightly entangled in different details," said fellow survivor Ali Esbati. 
 
 After an adolescence marked by conflict with Muslim youths from the other side of Oslo, Breivik said, he went to Liberia in 2001 to meet a Serbian nationalist, disguising himself as an aid worker and as a blood-diamond smuggler with a magnifying glass. 
 
 From Liberia he travelled to London to meet three other nationalists and supposedly founded the neo-Knights Templar. Later, he said, he met allies in Baltic countries. 
 
 Pressed to substantiate the meetings, Breivik said: "I don't wish to contribute anything that would cause arrests." 
 
 He has acknowledged that a 1,500-page screed he posted on the Internet describing the Knights Templar as a large and powerful secret group was an exaggeration, and spent much of Wednesday defending the claim that it existed at all. 
 
 "It is important to know what is true and what is made up," prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh said. 
 
 "Nothing is made up," replied Breivik, "but that is written in a context. It is glorifying certain details.... It's sales." 
 
 "What is it you are selling?" 
 
 "One sells dreams, if you are trying to inspire others." 
 
 Thomas Hylland Eriksen, a University of Oslo professor of social anthropology, said Breivik seemed frustrated by challenges to his self-image. 
 
 "This is such an embarrassment to him because there are certain answers he can't give because it would show that he tried to deceive us all with lies, that many of the network organizations, meetings, all the secret plots, all the other terror cells are figments of his imagination," said Eriksen. 
 
 "That is for him a last straw. If that bit of his evidence is not seen as credible, you know, the rest of his persona would crumble and he would have no credibility whatsoever." 
 
 On Tuesday, his first day of direct testimony, Breivik said the September 11, 2001, attacks by Al Qaeda on the United States were key to his radicalization and that his main source of information was Wikipedia, the open-source online encyclopedia. 
 
 He also said that since 2002 he has had little contact with the people he said he met in London, and that the "cell" he commanded on July 22 consisted of himself alone. 
 
 He maintained on Wednesday that there were two other one-man cells in Norway. 
 
 "Should we fear these two today?" the prosecutor asked. 
 
 "Yes," Breivik said. 
 
 After the court session ended, prosecutor Svein Holden said: "We do not believe there are more cells." 
 
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 OSLO — The self-described anti-Islamic militant on trial for killing 77 people in Norway last summer insisted on Wednesday that he belonged to a cell within an organization with members across Europe. 
 
 The defendant, Anders Behring Breivik, 33, appeared uncomfortable on the stand as he sweated and equivocated through prosecutors’ skeptical questioning about trips he made to Liberia and London in 2002, during which he met a Serbian war criminal, he said, and helped found the organization, the Knights Templar. Prosecutors say the group does not exist. 
 
 “We can just skip this and go to the conclusion — the police don’t think there is a Serb,” Mr. Breivik said under questioning from a prosecutor, Inga Bejer Engh. “They don’t believe in my British mentor.” 
 
 Mr. Breivik was facing his second day of questioning in a trial that began on Monday and is expected to last 10 weeks. He admits having carried out attacks on July 22 that left 77 people dead, first with a car bomb in central Oslo and then on the nearby wooded island of Utoya, where he killed 69 people, most of them teenagers attending a Labor Party summer camp. 
 
 Mr. Breivik has shown no remorse and has asked the court to acquit him, arguing that he acted in self-defense. 
 
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 After re-entering the courtroom with a clenched-fist salute as he did on the first two days of his trial, Mr. Breivik squirmed and flared his nostrils as Ms. Engh read out a section from his 1,500-page manifesto, in which he claimed that militants had sought him out for his particular gifts. 
 
 “If I may ask, what is the purpose of this?” he said of the prosecutor’s approach. “What are you doing now? What do you want to arrive at? What is the purpose? Your intention is to try to sow doubt into whether this network exists.” 
 
 As Mr. Breivik fidgeted, one survivor of the Utoya rampage turned to her family and smiled as the defendant was forced to concede that the tract, which he mailed to contacts around Europe just before he set off the bomb in Oslo, was pompous and badly written. 
 
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 Mr. Breivik compared the Knights Templar to Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network, saying: “If you look at Al Qaeda before 9/11, it was becoming established. After 9/11, it became established.” 
 
 He said that a claim in his manifesto that the organization had 15 to 80 members “was just an estimate,” but that there were two other cells that could attack at any time. 
 
 The defendant sulked at times and showed signs of anxiety and irritation when he was pressed, but he rallied when speaking of his opposition to Islam and to Norwegian multiculturalism. 
 
 “It’s anybody’s guess” how he will hold up under the strain of a 10-week process, said David Canter, a professor of psychology at the University of Huddersfield in England. 
 
 “But I think he has built such an heroic narrative for himself,” Professor Canter said, “that he has convinced himself he is on a mission that will carry him through.” 
 
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 As prosecutors chipped away at the question of what happened on his travels, Mr. Breivik seemed to sense that they were seeking to portray him as a fantasist and a loser. 
 
 “Is it not remarkable that I have been to Liberia if this is a psychotic fantasy?” Mr. Breivik asked. 
 
 Prosecutors later suggested that Mr. Breivik had gone to Africa for diamonds. The evidence, they said, was that he took instruments for evaluating the stones when he went in May 2002, and that after returning he communicated with diamond wholesalers in the United States and Britain. Mr. Breivik replied that the dealings had been meant to provide “a credible cover.” 
 
 Lawyers for the prosecution and the defense have said that the central issue at the trial will be whether Mr. Breivik is sane — as he wishes to be judged, because, he has said, a finding of insanity would undermine his cause of stopping the Islamic “colonization” of Norway. 
 
 If he is found to have been sane when he carried out the killings, the presiding judges can sentence him to up to 21 years in prison, with a provision to keep him jailed longer if he is still considered dangerous. The alternative would be indefinite detention in a psychiatric hospital.
– Pity poor Anders Breivik; the confessed Norway mass-murderer thinks prosecutors are making fun of him. Prosecutors questioned Breivik for a second day today, asking about sections of his 1,500-page manifesto that describe his "Knights Templar" terrorist group, and boast that he was selected over "several hundred" applicants. "Before you continue, I hope that you will try to ridicule me less," Breivik said, "and concentrate on the case more. The police pulled out parts of the compendium that I agree were poorly written." Norway police don't think the group exists, the New York Times reports. As they pointed out inconsistencies in his account, Breivik sweated and looked uncomfortable, saying he'd made "some sloppy mistakes." Yesterday, he admitted his account was "pompous," according to Reuters. "Instead of telling about four sweaty guys in a cellar … you use other ways of description," he said. Prosecutors also cast doubt on Breivik's story that he met a Serbian war criminal in Liberia. Breivik refused to answer questions about the trip, saying he didn't want to expose fellow militants, and complaining that prosecutors were trying to "detract credibility from me."