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ZAGREB – The Turkish man, who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in1981, has said he wants political asylum in staunchly Catholic Croatia, where he plans to write a new Bible, a local daily reported on Sunday. "If Croatia gives me political asylum, I would be glad to come and live in Croatia," Mehmet Ali Agca said in a message delivered through his lawyers to the influential Vecernji List daily."Croatia is a Catholic country and I am a Catholic. I am preparing to write a new Bible and correct mistakes and I would like to do that in Catholic...

Pope 'praying from heaven' 09/01/2006 18:41 - (SA) Warsaw - Former pope John Paul II is "praying from heaven" for Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who attempted to kill the pontiff in 1981 and who is expected to be released from jail this week, said the pope's former private secretary on Monday. Spokesperson Robert Necek said Stanslaw Dziwisz, who held the wounded pope in his arms after he had been shot, said he accepted the Turkish court's decision to release Agca. Necek said Dziwisz, who was now the archbishop of Krakow in southern Poland, "is praying for Ali Agca and...

Agca's First Target, Walesa By Cihan News Agency Published: Friday 24, 2005 zaman.com Mehmet Ali Agca, serving a life sentence for attempting to assasinate the late pope John Paul II, had previously targetted former Polish President Lech Walesa, it has been claimed. The claim came from the weekly Polish newspaper, Echo. The article says that Agca, under the influence of the communist trends, plotted an assassination against the Pope in 1981 but that his first target was Walesa, who was known for his anti-communist stance.