Norway's official mourning period for victims of a bombing and shooting rampage ends Sunday with a national remembrance ceremony in Oslo.
The Oslo bombing and Utoya island shooting killed a total of 77 people last month.
The ceremony comes a day after survivors returned for the first time to the site of the island shooting, where
the gunman killed 69 people. He also bombed the Oslo government buildings on the same day, killing eight more people.
Most of the victims were at a political summer camp held by the youth wing of the governing Labour Party at the time of the July 22 shooting attack.
Most survivors made it out alive by hiding among rocks or diving into the chilly waters around the island.
Before the survivors' visit, relatives of those killed traveled to the island Friday for the first time to see where their loved ones spent their final moments.
Many lit candles and left flowers in makeshift shrines.
The suspect in both attacks, Anders Breivik, was ordered held in isolation for four more weeks Friday after appearing before a judge in Oslo.
If removed from isolation, there's danger that he will tamper with evidence and hinder the police investigation, the judge said.
Breivik, 32, had told the court that being held in isolation is "boring, monotonous and a sadistic method of torture," the judge said.
The suspect admitted the attacks, a judge and his lawyer say, but has pleaded not guilty in court.
A group of computer security experts are working to decode what they believe could be hidden messages in the Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik's manifesto.
Brievik emailed the 1500-page document to hundreds of online contacts less than 90 minutes before he
detonated a bomb in Oslo city centre last month and shot dozens of young people at a summer camp.
It contained links to newpaper articles, blogs and other material that the killer used to make claims about the threat he perceived from multiculturalism.
But analysis of the document by Rolf Frøysa, the chief technology officer of a Norwegian broadband firm, revealed a series of links that did not lead to any website.
”I was on vacation in Turkey when I heard about Breivik’s bombing,” he told The Telegraph.
Large parts of the document were plagiarized from the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, an American mail bomber who raged against “Industrial Society and Its Future” in his own manifesto in 1995. When he was eventually captured, authorities found reams of notes Kaczynski had written in a code that was not cracked for 10 years.
“I was horrified and read about how Breivik may have taken inspiration from the Unabomber,” said Mr Frøysa.
”I started to wonder whether Breiviok’s manifesto could also contain similar codes.”
Mr Frøysa wrote a computer programme to test the links within the document, and found the 46 apparently broken links. All efforts to make them work, such as trying them out on so-called ”darknets”, which are private and typically anonymoyus filesharing networks with different protocols to the public internet, were unsuccessful.
But further study of the numbers within them revealed a worrying pattern.
”I suddenly saw that some of the work I had been doing suggested they could be GPS coordinates,” said Mr Frøysa.
The first ”coordinates” he tried out on Google Maps pointed directly at a train station in central Liverpool. The rest of the numbers also appeared to correspond to major sites across Europe.
Given Breivik’s claims to Norwegian authorities that he was part of a larger network of right wing extremists, Mr Frøysa and some friends who were by now working with him became concerned and reported their findings to police. They also opened up the project to a wider online community of around 300 people, including experts on encryption and mathematics.
”It could just be a hoax or part of his [Breivik’s] PR strategy,” said Mr Frøysa. ”but we need to investigate this document.”
The idea that the numbers represent GPS coordinates is currently the group’s leading theory, but Mr Frøysa said he they were keeping an open mind and invited others to join in the analysis.
”The Norwegian police are busy dealing with their biggest case since World War Two. When we’re finished this document should be seen as total rubbish,” he said.
Norway seemed to stand still, not once, but several times today. Exactly a week after Anders Behring Breivik first bombed government buildings in central Oslo, then shot at youngsters on the island of Utoeya, the nation took the chance to reflect.
At 1300 local time (1100 GMT), at the "folkhus" or people's house, Norway's prime minister joined members
of the Labour Party to remember the dead.
Colleagues and friends of those who died hugged each other after moving readings and songs, a single rose held by each.
The prime minister spoke for many who feel that it is determination that will get them through the grief.
"It is impossible to comprehend what these young people went through during these gruesome hours. But we have to go on and live with the burden of the 22 July. It will be hard. It will be difficult. But together in unity, we will manage," he said.
'Even more love'
At the same time, a short ferry ride away, another life was remembered. In a leafy and idyllic setting, the small wooden church in Nesodden saw its first-ever Muslim burial, Christian pastor and Muslim imam united to lead the remembrance of Bano Rashid, a popular and outgoing 18-year-old of Kurdish decent.
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I hope Bano can be a symbol for Norway's youth, for Christian youth, for Muslim youth, for Kurdish youth - to show everyone that they can follow their dreams”
Siva Jagdar
Childhood friend of Bano Rashid
Shot at her annual summer camp on Utoeya, she was a popular, lively young woman who worked as an activist for the Labour Party here, and had ambitions to be a politician.
Her bright and optimistic face smiled out of the photo held aloft at the front of her funeral procession. With dignity through tears, her sister walked with her coffin - she too was at the camp, but survived Mr Breivik's massacre.
Ms Rashid's family followed behind. Onlookers confirmed that they are part of a well-integrated Kurdish community here, who left Iraq over 15 years ago. "The answer must not be hatred, but even more love," her mother Beyan told the attending media afterwards.
The doors of the church were left open, and the crowd outside stood in the fierce sunshine to hear the service. Many had to leave the service at times to sit under nearby trees, as the heat and emotion became too much. The message here too was that Norwegians do not want to meet intolerance with intolerance.
"An imam and a pastor side by side for this funeral is a very powerful message," Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said after the service.
Not bowed
Traditionally reserved, the Norwegians have met the tragedy with dignity - almost everyone here refers to meeting Mr Breivik's hate "with love". One student who didn't want to be named told us that she felt sorry for him. "He's obviously a very sick man," she said.
Mr Breivik was questioned again today, and police confirmed they do not think he is linked to a network of terrorists, as he has proclaimed in his "manifesto", a 7,000-word document published on the internet shortly before his rampage.
Police lawyer Paal Frederik Hjort Kraby said he was calm and controlled during his interview, which today went through his last statement of around 50 pages.
"He was more than willing to explain himself about the things he had done," Mr Kraby said. Mr Breivik's lawyer has already said publicly that he thinks his client is insane.
Police released a new death total of 77 today, up from 76, each death part of what has been described as a "lost generation" of would-be politicians and activists.
Back at the funeral of Ms Rashid, however, her friends would not be bowed.
"Her death won't scare Muslims like me away from politics," said her childhood friend and fellow Kurd, Siva Jagdar.
"If anything she has been an inspiration in life, and I hope she will be an inspiration still, to show Norway what we can be... I hope Bano can be a symbol for Norway's youth, for Christian youth, for Muslim youth, for Kurdish youth. To show everyone that they can follow their dreams."
OSLO, Norway -- Five days after a terrorist incensed by Norway's culture of tolerance horrified the world, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg issued a call of quiet defiance to his country: Make Norway even more accepting.
"The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,"
Stoltenberg said Wednesday at a news conference.
His promise in the aftermath of twin attacks that killed 76 people contrasted with the U.S. response after the 9/11 attacks, when the U.S. gave more leeway to perform wiretaps and search records.
It also reflects the difference between the two countries' approaches to terrorism: The U.S. has been frustrated by what it considers Scandinavia's lack of aggressive investigation and arrests.
"I think what we have seen is that there is going to be one Norway before and one Norway after July 22," the prime minister said.
Oslo's government quarter was bombed and dozens were slaughtered at the Labor Party's youth camp July 22. Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, has confessed to the attacks and said they were necessary to fight what he called Muslim colonization and multiculturalism.
Since the attacks, Stoltenberg and members of the Norwegian royal family have underlined the country's openness by making public appearances with little visible security guarding them.
The national sense of heartbreak is being renewed daily as police release names of the dead; the identities of only 17 of the 68 known to have been killed have been officially confirmed.
One of those named Wednesday was the youngest victim so far -- camper Sharidyn Svebakk-Boehn, who turned 14 five days before the rampage.
An employee of Stoltenberg's office, 51-year-old Anne Lise Holter, was confirmed Wednesday as one of the eight dead in the bomb blast. A stepbrother of Crown Princess Mette-Matrit, police officer Trond Berntsen, 51, was confirmed as one of those killed on the island. He was providing security.
Denmark said Wednesday that a 43-year-old Danish woman, Hanne Balch Fjalestad, was the first confirmed foreign death. She was a medic at the youth camp.
Stoltenberg said an independent commission will be formed to investigate the attacks and determine what can be learned from the response. Police have been criticized for the length of time it took them to reach the island.
The commission also is to help survivors and relatives, and there will be a monument built to commemorate the victims' lives.
