Lawyer says Norway suspect insane

The suspect in Norway's twin attacks that left Tiffany Earrings sale at least 76 people dead claims he is part of an organisation with several cells in Western countries, his defence lawyer said yesterday, but he added the case suggests his client is insane.
Anders Behring Breivik is not aware of the death toll or of the public's response to the massacre that has rocked the country, but believes the "operation" is going according to plan, Geir Lippestad said. In an interview, Lippestad said Breivik asked how many people he killed.
"This whole case has indicated that he's insane," Lippestad told reporters at during an earlier press conference.
Not guilty plea
Breivik has confessed to last week's bombing in the capital and a rampage at a Labour Party retreat for young people, but he has pleaded not guilty to the terrorism charges he faces, claiming he acted to save Europe from what he says is Muslim colonisation.
"He expects that this is a start of war that will last for 60 years. but his mind is very... well I don't want to comment more on his mind, but that's what he believes," he told reporters.
"He looks upon himself as a warrior. And he started this war, and takes some kind of pride in that."
The suspect took drugs to be "strong, efficient, awake", Lippestad said.
He claims he is part of an organisation with several cells in Western countries, including two in Norway, Lippestad said.
He said Breivik's family has not asked to see him.
Asked at the press conference if Breivik was Tiffany Earrings sale giving him instructions for his defence, Lippestad said he wasn't and that he wouldn't take such instructions.
Earlier, Norway's justice minister told reporters that employees from his department are still missing. Police planned to start publicly naming the dead for the first time yesterday.
There is a particular focus on identifying the dead since authorities dramatically lowered the death toll on Monday, apparently because they counted 18 bodies twice in the confusion following the massacre.
They initially said 86 people died on the island, but now say the figure is 68.
"The Justice Ministry has people who are missing, we have people who are very hard hit by this and we are without offices," minister Knut Storberget told reporters.
Storberget also offered a defence of the police in response to a question about the mounting admissions of missteps.
Police have acknowledged that they took 90 minutes to reach Utoya island, where a gunman was picking off young people attending a retreat for the Labour Party's youth wing. They weren't able to deploy a helicopter because the entire crew had been sent on vacation.
Victims who called emergency services from the midst of the massacre reported being told to stay off the line because authorities were dealing Tiffany UK Sale with the Oslo bombing.
"I feel the police have delivered well in this situation. I also feel they've delivered especially well on the points where there's been criticism raised," said Storberget