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To: Tax-chick
"What would happen if a prominent Muslim made that statement about Catholic holy places like the Vatican?" asked Ali.

Anybody know if this guy was a member of the "Religion of Peace?

Twenty years ago, on the afternoon of May 13, 1981, Pope John Paul II was struck by three bullets while being driven in a slow-moving convertible through St. Peter's Square, where 20,000 people had gathered to see the pontiff. Rushed to a hospital, the pope barely survived a six-hour operation. Two bystanders were also injured in the attack. The would-be assassin, 23-year-old Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, was immediately apprehended at the scene of the crime. The police found in his pocket several notes scribbled in Turkish, one of which read: "I am killing the pope as a protest against the imperialism of the Soviet Union and the United States and against the genocide that is being carried out in El Salvador and Afghanistan."

22 posted on 07/25/2005 12:53:42 PM PDT by skip_intro
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27 posted on 07/25/2005 12:56:25 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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I don't know. Turkey is about the most secularized of Moslem-majority countries, and I think he's been established pretty firmly that Agca was working for the Communists.


37 posted on 07/25/2005 1:00:40 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Standing athwart history, shouting, "Turn those lights off! You think electricity grows on trees?")
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