The Norwegian man charged Saturday with a pair of attacks in Oslo that killed at least 92 people left behind a detailed manifesto outlining his preparations and calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against the threat of Muslim domination, according to Norwegian and American officials familiar with the investigation. 

As stunned Norwegians grappled with the deadliest attack in the country since World War II, a portrait began to emerge of the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik, 32. The police identified him as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration. 

“We are not sure whether he was alone or had help,” a police official, Roger Andresen, said at a televised news conference. “What we know is that he is right wing and a Christian fundamentalist.” 

In the 1,500-page manifesto, posted on the Web hours before the attacks, Mr. Breivik recorded a day-by-day diary of months of planning for the attacks, and claimed to be part of a small group that intended to “seize political and military control of Western European countries and implement a cultural conservative political agenda.” 

He predicted a conflagration that would kill or injure more than a million people, adding, “The time for dialogue is over. We gave peace a chance. The time for armed resistance has come.” 

The manifesto was signed Andrew Berwick, an Anglicized version of his name. A former American government official briefed on the case said investigators believed the manifesto was Mr. Breivik’s work. 

The document also describes a secret meeting in London in April 2002 to reconstitute the Knights Templar, a Crusader military order. It says the meeting was attended by nine representatives of eight European countries, evidently including Mr. Breivik, with an additional three members unable to attend, including a “European-American.” 

The document does not name the attendees or say whether they were aware of Mr. Breivik’s planned attacks, though investigators presumably will now try to determine if the people exist and what their connection is to Mr. Breivik. 

 

British Prime Minister Theresa May is not planning to postpone Brexit beyond June 30, the new deadline she proposed to the European Council on Wednesday. 

 

That is what the British Prime Minister said on Wednesday evening in a speech in which she placed the blame for the difficult Brexit process on the British House of Commons in particular. According to the British Prime Minister, British parliamentarians mainly know what they do not want, but do not let them know what they do want. 

 

The Brexit process is in yet another stalemate, one and a half week before the official Brexit date: 30 March, midnight (Dutch time). Without approval of the resignation agreement in the British parliament, the UK threatens to "crash" out of the EU, which would create a lot of social and economic chaos, both in the EU and the UK. 

 

That is why May asked for a delay. The 27 remaining EU member states must unanimously approve that delay. 

 

Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, said on Wednesday that a short delay is only possible if the British first approve the resignation agreement. For the British to postpone, they must therefore approve the withdrawal agreement that has been negotiated with the EU for two years. 

 

According to a memo from the European Commission that leaked to the Financial Times on Wednesday, Brussels would also consider offering a very long delay: until the end of this year or longer. So May doesn't feel much for that, it appears today. 

May hopes for a third vote 

 

The problem is that the President of the British Parliament earlier this week ruled that May should not have the same deal put to the vote again, unless something really changes about it 

 

The deal has already been voted on twice before: in January and earlier this month. That second time was then allowed because there were a number of additional commitments from the EU. 

 

The British government has already hinted that they are still planning to find a way to get the proposal to vote next week. 

 

The European government leaders meet on Thursday and Friday to discuss the European Council. The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, said earlier that this is unlikely.