Anders Behring Breivik on Tuesday defended his massacre of 77 people, insisting he would do it again and calling the bomb-and-shooting rampage the most �spectacular� attack by a nationalist militant since World War II.

Reading a prepared statement in court, the anti-Muslim extremist lashed out at Norwegian and European governments for embracing immigration and multiculturalism.

He claimed to be speaking as a commander of an �anti-communist� resistance movement and an anti-Islam militant group he called the Knights Templar. Prosecutors have said the group does not exist.

Maintaining he acted out of �goodness not evil� to prevent a wider civil war, Breivik vowed, �I would have done it again.�

Breivik has five days to explain why he set off a bomb in Oslo�s government district, killing eight, and then gunned down 69 at a Labor Party youth camp outside the Norwegian capital. He denies criminal guilt saying he was acting in self-defense.

�The attacks on July 22 were a preventive strike. I acted in self-defense on behalf of my people, my city, my country,� he said as he finished his statement Tuesday. �I therefore demand to be found innocent of the present charges.�

(Source: NY Daily News)