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  • Man Who Shot Pope Headed Back to Prison

    01/20/2006 12:15:02 PM PST · by Ernest_at_the_Beach · 11 replies · 1,378+ views
    Las Vegas Sun ^ | January 20, 2006 at 12:11:59 PST | SELCAN HACAOGLU ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Police took the man who shot Pope John Paul II back into custody Friday after an appeals court ordered him to return to prison to serve more time for killing a journalist and for other crimes in Turkey. Mehmet Ali Agca did not resist arrest after eight days of freedom, and he was taken to police headquarters in Istanbul, where TV cameras showed him handcuffed and yelling in English, Turkish and Italian. "I declare myself Messiah! I am not the son of God, I am Messiah!" shouted Agca, who has made similar outbursts in the past....
  • Vatican Dismisses Pope Shooter's Claim

    03/31/2005 6:26:24 AM PST · by Pendragon_6 · 5 replies · 334+ views
    The Age ^ | 3-31-2005
    A Vatican cardinal has promptly dismissed reported claims by the Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II that Vatican prelates helped him carry out the 1981 attack in St. Peter's Square.Mehmet Ali Agca, now jailed in Turkey, shot John Paul in the abdomen on May 13, 1981, while the pope was riding in an open car in Rome's St. Peter's Square. He has given conflicting reasons for the attack on the Pope and his motives remain unclear. "Without the help of priests and cardinals I would have not been able to carry out that action," Agca was quoted as...