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RELEASED. MEHMET ALI AGCA, 48, Turkish assailant who spent almost 20 years in prison in Italy for shooting and wounding Pope John Paul II in 1981, then served five more in a Turkish jail for the 1979 murder of a journalist; in Istanbul. The Pontiff, who was shot by Agca while riding in an open car through St. Peter's Square in Rome, forgave his would-be assassin and visited him in prison. But after the Turkish press railed at his release, Justice Minister Cemil Cicek ordered a review of whether Agca had been credited correctly for time served. Cicek...
...CITY GARDENER HGTV, SATURDAYS, 11 P.M. E.T. Britain is known for its grand formal gardens--but also the dank town-house backyards that Matt James renovates: drab, walled pits that are, as he says, "more prison yard than courtyard." His budget-conscious solutions treat each garden like an extension of the house, making up for limited space with careful design. You may not appreciate all his choices--say, the herd of statuary cows traipsing through a patio--but even suburbanites can learn from him about handling common problems, especially lack of sunlight. (This is a British show, after...
...then served five more in a Turkish jail for the 1979 murder of a journalist; in Istanbul. The Pontiff, who was shot by Agca while riding in an open car through Rome's St. Peter's Square, forgave his would-be assassin and visited him in prison. But after the Turkish press railed at his release, Justice Minister Cernil Cicek ordered a review of whether Agca had been credited correctly for time served. Cicek said Agca was apparently jailed for only 19 years and one month in Italy?not 20 full years?and may be required to serve another...
...SENTENCED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, to life in prison for the attempted assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arutyunian, a Georgian citizen of Armenian descent, hurled a live hand grenade at the two leaders during a rally last May, but it fell short and failed to detonate. Arutyunian later killed a policeman in a shootout during his arrest. He was shown on television admitting that he threw the grenade, but his lawyer said he will appeal the sentence...
...Even if Zawahiri were to have been killed in the strike, Coleman believes his loss would not be a crippling blow to al-Qaeda. Zawahiri is certainly a radicalized, visceral killer, driven by "a deep-down hatred" honed by his experiences in an Egyptian prison. Coleman believes the Egyptian contingent of al-Qaeda demonstrated a bloodlust unusual even among the committed jihadists. Many graduates of Qaeda camps had no qualms about carrying out bombings, but few matched the Egyptians' readiness to spill blood up close, through shootings and stabbings. "The Egyptians were always more doers than talkers," says Coleman. "They...