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Drakken

January 18, 2010, 11:37:29 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6992057.ece

Where was Mastro Titta when we needed him?  :mad:

QuotePope gunman Mehmet Ali Agca released from prison in Turkey

Mehmet Ali Agca, the gunman who tried to kill pope John Paul II in 1981, has been released from prison in Turkey after almost three decades behind bars.

"The release procedure has been completed," his lawyer, Yilmaz Abosoglu said outside a high-security prison near Ankara.

Agca, who spent more than 29 years in prison, was expected to be taken to a military facility and then to a hospital to renew a 2006 military hospital report which said he is not fit for obligatory military service because of "severe anti-social personality disorder".

Agca was a 23-year-old militant of the notorious far-right Grey Wolves, on the run from Turkish justice facing murder charges, when he resurfaced in Saint Peter's Square in Rome on May 13, 1981 and opened fire on the Pope as he drove to an audience in an open vehicle
Times Archive, 1981: Assassination attempt provokes shock and grief

Turkey announced today that it would seek the extradition of Mehmet Ali Agca, the right-wing extremist accused of attempting to kill the Pope

John Paul II was seriously wounded in the abdomen and Agca spent the next 19 years in Italian prisons.

He has claimed the attack was part of a divine plan and given often contradictory statements, frequently changing his story and forcing investigators to open dozens of inquiries.

Charges that the Soviet Union and then-communist Bulgaria were behind the assassination attempt were never proved.

In 2000, Italy pardoned Agca and extradited him to Turkey, where he was convicted for the murder of prominent journalist Abdi Ipekci, two armed robberies and escaping from prison, crimes all dating back to the 1970s.

There have been long-standing questions about Agca's mental health based on his frequent outbursts and claims that he was the Messiah.

In a statement distributed earlier today by his lawyer outside the prison in Sincan on the outskirts of Ankara, the Turkish capital, he raved again: "I proclaim the end of the world. All the world will be destroyed in this century. Every human being will die in this century... I am the Christ eternal."

Agca, 52, said last week that he would "answer all questions" about the murder attempt after his release. When he was arrested minutes after the attack on St Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, he claimed that he had acted alone.

In confused, often rambling testimony, he later indicated that Bulgarian agents acting on behalf of Moscow were behind the attack, but then withdrew this.

grumbler

#1
January 18, 2010, 12:26:03 PM
So 19 years for unsuccessfully trying to kill the Pope, and 10 years for successfully killing a Turk?  That seems about right.
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The Brain

#2
January 18, 2010, 02:05:52 PM
When the Messiah comes he will be insane? Why am I not surprised?
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Drakken

#3
January 18, 2010, 06:37:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on January 18, 2010, 02:05:52 PM
When the Messiah comes he will be insane? Why am I not surprised?

That's probably what the members of the Sanhedrin thought when the real deal came in.  :Joos

Martinus

#4
January 18, 2010, 06:45:57 PM
Well, I know the guy screw up but locking him up for 19 years for that is a bit too much, don't you think?  :rolleyes:

garbon

#5
January 18, 2010, 10:39:38 PM
Ask yourself, who's in charge here?
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#6
January 18, 2010, 11:23:35 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 18, 2010, 06:45:57 PM
Well, I know the guy screw up but locking him up for 19 years for that is a bit too much, don't you think?  :rolleyes:

What arbitrary number do you think would be appropriate for attempted murder?
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#7
January 18, 2010, 11:30:30 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on January 18, 2010, 11:23:35 PM
What arbitrary number do you think would be appropriate for attempted murder?

They should try to lock him up for life(but fail to do so).
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Razgovory

#8
January 18, 2010, 11:31:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on January 18, 2010, 11:23:35 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 18, 2010, 06:45:57 PM
Well, I know the guy screw up but locking him up for 19 years for that is a bit too much, don't you think?  :rolleyes:

What arbitrary number do you think would be appropriate for attempted murder?

I think he means he means the guy is being punished for failing to assassinate the Pope.
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Martinus

#9
January 19, 2010, 03:05:15 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 18, 2010, 11:31:37 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on January 18, 2010, 11:23:35 PM
Quote from: Martinus on January 18, 2010, 06:45:57 PM
Well, I know the guy screw up but locking him up for 19 years for that is a bit too much, don't you think?  :rolleyes:

What arbitrary number do you think would be appropriate for attempted murder?

I think he means he means the guy is being punished for failing to assassinate the Pope.

Raz understands me better than anyone else here. Should I be worried?

Razgovory

#10
January 19, 2010, 04:08:03 AM
I can understand a few simple things.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Drakken

#11
January 19, 2010, 10:07:25 AM
If a dude had tried the same only fifteen years earlier, he would have been sentenced to death.
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