Did Norway suspect have surgery to look more Aryan?

Anders Behring Breivik, the 32-year-old Norwegian man who admitted killing 77 people in a bomb attack and shooting rampage, likely had work done to alter his appearance, an intelligence official suggested.

Janne Kristiansen, head of the Norwegian Police Security Service, told The Sunday Times of London that Breivik's facial structure likely was not natural.

"You do not have that Aryan look naturally in Norway," Kristiansen explained. "Hitler would have had him on posters. He has the perfect, classic Aryan face. He must have had a facelift."

Breivik, who denounced multiculturalism in his online manifesto, claims he carried out the attacks as part of a network of modern-day crusaders — the Knights Templar — to launch a revolution against a Europe spoiled by Muslim immigration, and that there are other cells ready to strike.

Story: Norway suspect's manifesto reveals delusion

According to a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph, Breivik bragged about having plastic surgery 10 years ago to a former school friend.

"I remember we were at a party," Breivik's ex-friend reportedly told the newspaper, "and he told me he had had his nose and chin operated on by a plastic surgeon in America. It was a bit weird, but he was hanging around at that time with a group of people obsessed by their bodies."

Reports of the surgery are emerging as more details of Breivik's life — and his plot — come to light.

According to the Associated Press , Breivik wrote that in his early 20s, 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.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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