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OSLO, Norway — Police say the man who confessed to a bombing and youth camp massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has told them he also considered other possible locations to attack.

Police attorney Paal-Fredrik Hjort Kraby says Anders Behring Breivik was questioned for 10 hours Friday and “said he was interested in other targets.” Norwegian tabloid VG said Breivik had described the Royal Palace and the head office of the prime minister's Labor Party in Oslo as potential targets.

The paper did not cite its sources. Kraby wouldn't comment on the report but said that, “They were targets that one would say are natural for terror attacks.”

TRIPOLI, Libya — NATO warplanes bombed three Libyan state TV satellite transmitters in Tripoli overnight, targeting facilities that have been used to incite violence and threaten civilians, the military alliance said Saturday.A series of loud explosions echoed across the capital before dawn. There was no immediate comment from Libyan officials on what had been hit, but state TV was still on the air in Tripoli as of Saturday morning.NATO said the airstrikes aimed to degrade Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's “use of satellite television as a means to intimidate the Libyan people and incite acts of violence against them.”“Striking specifically these critical satellite dishes will reduce the regime's ability to oppress civilians while (preserving) television broadcast infrastructure that will be needed after the conflict,” the alliance said in a statement posted on its website.It said Gadhafi's inflammatory TV broadcasts were intended to mobilize his supporters.In addition to the three TV transmitters, during the past 24 hours alliance aircraft targeted military vehicles, radars, ammunition dumps, anti-aircraft guns, and command centers near the front lines in the east and west, NATO said in a statement.The attempt to silence the government's TV broadcasts comes at a sensitive time for the rebels, who appeared to be in disarray after the mysterious death of their chief military commander.Abdel-Fattah Younis' body was found Thursday, dumped outside the rebels' de facto capital of Benghazi, along with the bodies of two colonels who were his top aides. They had been shot and their bodies burned.

BEIRUT — Syrian troops stormed a suburb of the capital Damascus and a town near the Iraqi border, killing at least five people in the latest raids as the government intensifies its crackdown on protesters ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, activists said Saturday.Activists expect anti-government demonstrations to escalate during Ramadan, which begins early next week. The raids by security forces appear to be an attempt by President Bashar Assad’s regime to prevent wide-scale demonstrations when Muslims being the month of fasting from dawn to dusk.Authorities have waged a brutal crackdown that activists say has killed more than 1,600 civilians since the protests against the Assad family’s 40-year-old rule began in mid-March.Thousands of protesters calling for the ouster of Assad’s regime took to the streets throughout Syria Friday, urging fellow citizens who have remained on the sidelines to join them. The government has sought to discredit those behind the protests.

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