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Escorted from his cell in Rome's Rebibbia Prison by a heavy police convoy, Mehmet Ali Agca arrived in a high-security courtroom in Rome last week, presumably to tell a jury that he had been hired by Bulgarian intelligence officials to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. But as the 27-year-old Turk settled into his white steel cage in a former gymnasium converted to a courtroom, he had loftier matters on his mind. "I am Jesus Christ!" Agca shouted. "I am omnipotent. I announce the end of the world. All will be destroyed." The bizarre outburst...
...Uenal Erdal. The men, Bagci said, had helped him pass on to Agca the pistol that was used to shoot the Pope. Marini expressed hope that the court's move to subpoena three more Turks, held elsewhere in Western Europe, would produce fresh testimony. One of the three, Mehmet Sener, was convicted last week in Switzerland on heroin-smuggling charges. The court is also seeking to question a Turk identified as Aslam Samet. He was arrested by Dutch police during a papal visit May 14 for possessing a loaded Browning pistol that a Dutch prosecutor says came from the same...
After years of preparation, one of the most complex and controversial criminal proceedings ever entered upon gets under way this week when eight men charged with conspiring to assassinate Pope John Paul II go on trial in Rome's criminal court. Mehmet Ali Agca, 27, the Turkish terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment after he shot the Pope in St. Peter's Square four years ago, is expected to be the central figure during the initial phases of the trial...
...summary power of forgiveness resides with God alone. After that, forgiveness gets personal. Pope John Paul II could forgive Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot him. The bullet hole in his abdomen gave him the authority to do that. So, in a sacramental way, did his ordination as a priest. Ronald Reagan can forgive John Hinckley (the Pope and the President both being members of the brotherhood of the shot). But Ronald Reagan cannot forgive Agca for shooting the Pope. Nor can he forgive SS men for what they did in Europe while Reagan was making Army training films...
...French education, rose to power as head of the partisan resistance to the German and Italian occupation in World War II. He ruled Albania ruthlessly, sending tens of thousands to forced-labor camps. He tolerated no political opposition, and his rivals were frequently eliminated, including Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, his closest associate. Shehu was officially reported to have committed suicide in December 1981, but it was widely rumored that Hoxha shot him in an argument over seeking ties with the West, which Hoxha then opposed...