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Norwegian anti-Muslim fanatic Anders Behring Breivik (C) arrives with his defence lawyers Geir Lippestad (R) and Vibeke Hein Baera in the courtroom in Oslo
A police official described the chaos that reigned in Oslo after a bomb exploded outside the government headquarters on July 22, allowing the attacker to slip away and carry out a youth camp shooting massacre.
Eight people were killed by the bomb and 69 were killed on Utoya island in twin attacks that jolted Norway.
Testifying in Breivik's trial, police operations leader Thor Langli said the initial reports he received after the blast suggested there were two suspects, and two other bombs about to explode.
Langli recalled standing next to the head of an anti-terror squad in Oslo when he received a call about the second attack at the Labor Party's youth camp on Utoya, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Norwegian capital.
"I saw on his face that it was something serious," Langli said. "And while I was watching him he said out of the corner of his mouth: 'Shooting on Utoya.'"
Another report came in that about 50 people had been shot on the island. The anti-terror unit was dispatched to Utoya. When it arrived, some 70 minutes after the first reports of Breivik's rampage, 100 youth had been shot.
Langli said he first got a report of a suspect with a "non-Nordic" appearance leaving the scene. He then got another report of a Nordic-looking suspect, which made him believe there were two suspects.
When he heard about the Utoya shooting, he started thinking the bomb and the massacre were the actions of the same person.
"I thought there was a connection. But I didn't have any evidence for that," Langli said. Turning to Breivik, he added: "I could not imagine there being two people with so many crazy ideas."
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