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Vatican accepts attacker's release
Herald Sun ^
| 9 January 2006
Posted on 01/08/2006 2:20:37 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
THE Vatican said today it accepted the decision by a Turkish court to release Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who attempted to kill the late pope John Paul II in 1981.
"With legal issues, the Holy See leaves it up to the courts with competence in these areas," Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
He said the Vatican had only learned of the court's decision from press agencies and had not been given prior notice.
Agca, 48, is expected to be released between Tuesday and Sunday, Turkish officials told the Anatolia news agency.
He was a 23-year-old far-right militant on the run from the Turkish police when he opened fire on the head of the Roman Catholic Church at St. Peter's Square in Rome on May 13, 1981.
The pope suffered a serious wound to the abdomen and Agca spent the next 19 years in Italian prisons before being transferred to Turkey to complete his sentence.
John Paul II forgave his attacker and even met him in prison
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adropov; agca; assasinationattempt; assassinationplots; greywolves; gru; jpii; kgb; mehmetaliagca; muslims; popejohnpaulii; release; revisionism; ussr
All we have to do now is find out exactly who in the Kremlin ordered JPII's shooting!
To: Aussie Dasher
"He was a 23-year-old far-right militant" On whose political spectrum, pray tell, is this guy considered "far-right?" Especially seeing as how he probably did this hit under orders from the USSR?
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posted on
01/08/2006 2:22:42 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Gordongekko909
In the old Soviet Union, "far-right" meant staunch communist. Go figure!
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posted on
01/08/2006 2:24:57 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
To: Aussie Dasher
In Soviet Russia, Pope assassinates YOU!
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posted on
01/08/2006 2:26:09 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Aussie Dasher
Thi is one of the reasons I like Executions. Tookie wont be set free.
To: sgtbono2002
"Thi is one of the reasons I like Executions. Tookie wont be set free."
And ole Tookie won't run up the tab and if there is no death bed conversion, he'll go straight to hell.
Forgiveness is fine but crime must be PUNISHED to the fullest. People are confusing forgiveness with punishment. The two are distinctly different. I can easily forgive my daughter for something she has done but still there are consequences (punishment) for bad behavior.
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posted on
01/08/2006 3:35:07 PM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
To: Aussie Dasher
Joaquin Navarro-Valls
There's a name I hadn't seen in a while. I thought he left after JPII died.
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posted on
01/08/2006 5:48:26 PM PST
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(When in Rome, yell and complain until Romans do what you want them to do. If that fails, sue.)
To: WinOne4TheGipper
He was probably a Ratzinger appointee!
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posted on
01/08/2006 5:50:21 PM PST
by
Aussie Dasher
(The Great Ronald Reagan & John Paul II - Heaven's Dream Team!)
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