OSLO, Norway—In the world according to Anders Behring Breivik, a seat on Oslo's city council was once nearly in his grasp—until he was sidelined by a jealous adversary. Nonsense, says the so-called rival, who notes that Breivik attended just five or six party meetings and barely spoke.
In his early 20s, Breivik writes, he spent a year working alongside a mentor who schooled him in the ways of business and management. The man calls that a bizarre exaggeration, noting that the only thing he taught Breivik was how to record corporate minutes.
Those conflicts between Breivik's account and reality hint at a long thread of delusion winding throughout the 1,518-page manifesto he e-mailed to hundreds of people hours before he set out on a murderous rampage just over a week ago.
But some of the most troubling questions are the ones raised by the fragments of Breivik's story those who knew him say are closest to the truth.
The killer describes teen years infatuated with hip-hop, sneaking out at night in baggy jeans and hooded sweat shirts to spray-paint buildings around the capital with graffiti under the tag name "Morg." Then, Breivik writes, he decided to reject that life and turn himself into a selfless crusader bent on rescuing society from itself.
Police lawyer Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby said the suspect had talked about other targets.
"In general, I would say that he had in his plans other targets but on this day it was only these two which were successful," he told reporters on Saturday.
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Police lawyer Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby
He described Mr Breivik as "more than willing to co-operate... more than willing to explain himself".
Without citing its sources, Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang reported that the suspect had considered attacking the royal palace because of its symbolic value, and Labour HQ because of his loathing for the party.
On Friday, Mr Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, told Aftenposten newspaper that his client had harboured "several projects of different scale for that Friday".
"Things happened that day, which I don't want to go into, which meant events unfolded differently from what he had planned," he added.
He said his client continued to show no remorse, saying the killings were "a necessary act... a war against the rule by Muslims".
Police are believed to have been checking targets identified by Mr Breivik in his manifesto, which outlines both his extremist ideas and details his preparations for attacks.
Friday saw the first two funerals: of 18-year-old Bano Rashid, who was buried near Oslo, and of Ismail Haji Ahmed, 19, in the south-western town of Hamar.
Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere travelled to the Nesodden peninsula to attend the funeral of Ms Rashid, a Kurdish immigrant from Iraq.
Both victims were killed on Utoeya, where young members of the Labour Party had been attending an annual summer camp.
Memorial ceremonies were also held in churches and mosques and at non-religious gatherings around the country.
Norway plans to set up an independent "July 22 Commission" to examine the attacks, including investigating whether police reacted too slowly to the shootings at Utoeya.
A court has appointed two psychiatrists to try to examine Mr Breivik's actions, with a mandate to report back by 1 November. His lawyer has said he is probably insane.
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