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Man Convicted of Pope Assassination Attempt Fails to Report to Police (How Predictable)
AP via FoxNews ^ | 14 Jan 2006 | None

Posted on 01/15/2006 8:50:08 AM PST by JRios1968

ANKARA, Turkey — The man convicted of trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II and released from prison this week failed to report to police Saturday, Turkish media reported Saturday, but his lawyer insisted he was "a free person" who did not have to check in.

Mehmet Ali Agca has not been seen in public since his release Thursday, and failed to show up at a police station both Friday and Saturday despite a warning that a warrant could be issued for his arrest, Turkish television networks said.

Agca was released from an Istanbul prison after serving some 25 years in Italy and in Turkey for the assassination attempt on the pope and the killing of a prominent Turkish journalist.

Authorities said Agca, 48, was required to check in so officials could keep tabs on him until a military recruitment center decides whether he can be drafted. Agca was arrested on suspicion of dodging Turkey's draft but escaped a military prison in 1979.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agca; assassin; islamickiller; johnpaulii; trop
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...Agca's lawyer, Mustafa Demirbag, told the Anatolia news agency that Agca "is a free person" who did not have to report regularly to authorities.
1 posted on 01/15/2006 8:50:13 AM PST by JRios1968
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To: JRios1968

Sounds like a good reason to put the bugger back in the clink.


2 posted on 01/15/2006 8:51:59 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
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To: JRios1968

Now here's a guy I'd want next to me in the trenches...

NOT!!!


3 posted on 01/15/2006 8:53:19 AM PST by DoughtyOne (01/11/06: Ted Kennedy becomes the designated driver and moral spokesperson for the Democrat party.)
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To: satchmodog9

They could have solved this with a bullet to his brain in 1981...


4 posted on 01/15/2006 8:55:48 AM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: JRios1968

I wonder if Pope Benedict has been alerted?


5 posted on 01/15/2006 8:58:23 AM PST by texianyankee
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To: JRios1968

they must have ACLU types in Turkey


6 posted on 01/15/2006 8:58:49 AM PST by avile
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To: texianyankee

yikes!


7 posted on 01/15/2006 8:59:16 AM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: JRios1968
Authorities said Agca, 48, was required to check in so officials could keep tabs on him until a military recruitment center decides whether he can be drafted.

And we sometimes think the US justice system is a wee bit off kilter.
8 posted on 01/15/2006 9:05:01 AM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: JRios1968

bump.

Fox says he has missed 2 check-ins now.


9 posted on 01/15/2006 9:06:42 AM PST by Howlin
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To: JRios1968

Wonder if he's been whisked away by ex-KGB agents who want to be sure he never talks.


10 posted on 01/15/2006 9:12:29 AM PST by RedRover (The Turkish authoritities could start by looking in Bulgaria.)
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To: JRios1968
Face it....he's on his way to a al-Qaeda or Hezbollah training camp or perhaps the front lines against us in Iraq or Afghanistan.....thats not a stretch now is it?
11 posted on 01/15/2006 9:12:55 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert Heinlein)
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To: JRios1968
Yes, yes, he's forgiven and all is well. He shouldn't be punished. Nah. There need not be consequences for bad behavior - after all this man was forgiven, right?

LOL!
12 posted on 01/15/2006 9:18:23 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: JRios1968

Swiss Guard payback?


13 posted on 01/15/2006 9:22:18 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: satchmodog9

Last week, on a thread about the upcoming release, I was "fabbergastic" at the number of FReepers who agreed he should be back on the streets, since Il Papa had done the foregiveness thing.


14 posted on 01/15/2006 9:26:38 AM PST by ErnBatavia (I post in slang..live with it or ignore it - reader's choice.)
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To: festus

In Vermont he would have gotten 60 days.


15 posted on 01/15/2006 9:29:26 AM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: JRios1968

At least he spent 25 years in the slammer. It's not like he got away with murder like Fat Ted.


16 posted on 01/15/2006 9:29:55 AM PST by quantim (If the Constitution were perfect it wouldn't have included the Senate.)
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Agca spent 19 years and one month in prison in Italy between the day he was captured after he shot the pope on May 13, 1981, in St. Peter's Square in Rome, and his extradition to Turkey on June 14, 2000. He served the last five years in Turkey for murdering the Turkish journalist Abdi Ipekci in 1979.

Within hours of his release, Justice Minister Cemil Cicek ordered a review of Agca's case, and later told a Turkish newspaper that Agca may be returned to his cell to serve at least 11 more months for killing Ipekci.

"At least he spent 25 years in the slammer. It's not like he got away with murder like Fat Ted."

19 years, 1 month for shooting the Pope and 5 years for murder.

I'm hopeful that the reason he hasn't checked in is because he has been checked out.

17 posted on 01/15/2006 9:48:29 AM PST by elli1
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To: JRios1968
I'm sure he's heading for the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Where he'll be welcomed with opened arms.
18 posted on 01/15/2006 9:48:50 AM PST by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: RedRover
Wonder if he's been whisked away by ex-KGB agents who want to be sure he never talks.

Me, too.

19 posted on 01/15/2006 9:53:20 AM PST by elli1
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To: JRios1968

He done gone to the KGB!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 01/15/2006 10:25:45 AM PST by YOUGOTIT
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