Court-appointed psychiatrists have declared that Anders Behring Breivik, the Norway man who confessed to gunning down and bombing 77 people in Norway in July, was clinically insane at the time of the attacks.

Via the LA Times:

In a manifesto running to hundreds of pages, Breivik said his goal was to spark a revolution to reclaim Europe for Christianity and purge the continent of Muslims. He referred to himself as a crusading "knight" and accused "indigenous Europeans" of committing "cultural suicide" by allowing Muslims to settle in Christian lands.

If the court accepts the conclusion that Breivik was deranged when he carried out the attacks, then his trial would be suspended and he would be transferred from jail to a mental hospital, Norwegian media reported. He could then spend the rest of his life in psychiatric care, his freedom curtailed but not because of a prison sentence.