Man who shot Pope John Paul to leave jail

by **albion** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:34 pm

Looks like Mehmet Ali Agca, the would-be assasin of Pope JP2 is getting out of jail. (The shooting was blamed on the KGB via the Bulgarians in a "Team B" disinformation campaign, even though Agca was closer to the Gladio-affiliated Turkish Fascist Gray Wolves): <blockquote>Quote:<hr>Man who shot Pope John Paul to leave jail: agency  Sun Jan 8, 2006 2:11 PM ET11 ANKARA (Reuters) - Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in 1981, will be freed from prison this month, the Anatolian state news agency said on Sunday. Agca served 19 years in Italy for the assassination attempt before being pardoned at the Pope's behest in 2000. He was then extradited to Turkey to serve a separate sentence in an Istanbul jail for robbery and murder. "Agca is expected to be released between January 10 and January 15," Anatolian said, adding that he may then be required, like all Turkish men, to perform his military service. In a short statement, the Vatican said it had only learned of Agca's release from news agencies. "The Holy See, faced by a problem of a judicial nature, leaves the decision in the hands of the courts involved in this affair," the statement added. Over the years, Agca gave conflicting reasons for his attempt on the late pope's life, including allegations of a conspiracy with Bulgaria's communist-era secret services and the Soviet KGB -- claims Bulgaria always strongly denied. Agca belonged to a right-wing militant faction in Turkey in the late 1970s and was sentenced to prison for the murder of a liberal newspaper editor in 1979. <a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=agca/v=2/SID=w/l=NSR/R=4/SIG=128trfs0q/EXP=1136844901/*-http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/reuters/worldNews?m=9916">rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/...ews?m=9916</a> <hr></blockquote> For background see: <blockquote>Quote:<hr>The rise and fall of the Bulgarian connection. - book reviews Monthly Review, April, 1987 by Joel Kovel [review of The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian Connection by Edward S. Herman and Frank Brodhead. New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1986.] [...] It is hard to imagine anything stranger than the so-called "Bulgarian Connection' adduced to connect the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in May 1981 with Cold War politics. For those who do not remember the outlines of this bizarre episode, the Turkish gunman in the case, escaped murderer and right-wing terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca, was originally and quite sensibly linked to Gray Wolves, the Turkish neofascist group with which he had long been associated. In September 1982, however, sixteen months after the commission of the crime, the journalist Claire Sterling published an account in Reader's Digest claiming that Agca was acting on behalf of the Bulgarian secret service--and ultimately, it is scarcely necessary to add, the KGB. Other journalistic accounts followed, and in November of 1982, Agca himself shocked the world by corroborating Sterling's account and naming a number of Bulgarian officials as the instigators. One of these, Sergei Antonov, was subsequently arrested; and he, along with two other Bulgarians and six Turks, was indicted and tried in the Italian courts, beginning in October 1984. The trial dragged on exceedingly slowly, marked by extremely erratic behavior on the part of Agca as the state's prime witness, including his insisting that he was Jesus Christ. It culminated in March 1986 with the acquittal of all defendants on grounds of "lack of evidence'--a technicality under Italian law which has allowed the suitably disposed Western media to pretend the case is still alive. Even at the sparest level of description the extensive effort that went into formulating the Bulgarian Connection can be seen. Five years and at least as many countries gives a lot of room to weave a plot; and the Western media had a field day with the story. The presumption of Bulgarian and Russian guilt played a notable role in strengthening Reagan's anti-Soviet consensus. It contributed significantly to the emplacement of Euromissiles in 1983 and the discrediting of Yuri Andropov, who had directed the KGB. It undoubtedly helped Reagan domestically as well, and filled a lot of airtime along with selling a lot of newspapers. The only thing wrong was that the Bulgarian connection did not exist--not, in any case, as the real set of events described by Sterling and colleagues and corroborated by Agca. It existed, to be sure, but as a right-wing plot spun across two continents. Thus there was not one left-wing plot, as Sterling et al alleged, but two right-wing ones--the original Gray Wolves plot and the later disinformation. [...] Herman and Brodhead's work raises fascinating questions about the nature of conspiracy. The prime movers, and, so far as we know, originators, of the Bulgarian connection, were the aforementioned Claire Sterling, along with Paul Henze and Michael Ledeen. <a href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_v38/ai_5044278">www.findarticles.com/p/ar...ai_5044278</a><hr></blockquote> Also see Dave Emory's Radio Free America #17-21: <a href="http://rfasummary.blogspot.com/2004/12/rfa-17-21-who-shot-pope.html">rfasummary.blogspot.com/2...-pope.html</a>

by **albion** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 5:23 am

Pope's attacker may aid in mystery The mystery of a missing teen may move toward a solution when the assailant who shot Pope John Paul II is released on parole Thursday. BY NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY - The release of the Turk who shot Pope John Paul II may shed light on a quarter-century-old mystery: the disappearance of the teenage daughter of a Vatican employee whose kidnappers say was abducted to win the gunman's freedom. Emanuela Orlandi's family has asked prosecutors to reopen the case because ''new elements'' have emerged that warrant investigation, the family's lawyer, Massimo Krogh, told The Associated Press on Monday. He declined to speculate on whether the release of Mehmet Ali Agca, 47, from a Turkish prison would affect the case. But he cautioned that Agca has been a highly inconsistent witness over the years. ''He has said so many things. One cannot trust him,'' Krogh said. Another investigator, however, said Agca's release can only help the investigation into Orlandi's disappearance, although prosecutors haven't decided whether to reopen the case. [...] Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican messenger, disappeared after a music lesson in Rome on June 22, 1983. She was 15 at the time. The girl's self-proclaimed kidnappers demanded Agca's release for her freedom, although they never offered any proof they had the girl or that she was alive. Krogh said the Orlandi family believes there was a connection between Emanuela's disappearance and the attempt on John Paul's life and that the kidnappers wanted to exchange her for Agca. But asked whether Agca's release might also mean freedom for Orlandi, Krogh responded: ``I frankly cannot say.'' [...] Imposimato told the Apcom news agency that Agca's freedom, and any possible new testimony, ``could help resolve the mystery of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi.'' <a href="http://www.sunherald.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/13588492.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_world">www.sunherald.com/mld/mia...rald_world</a>

by **Hugh Manatee Wins** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 3:32 pm

John Hinckley is getting more three-day visits to his CIA-Morman World Vision parents, too. Bush family-friend Hinckley was the Reagan shooting patsy. Combined with the intentional 'NSA leaks' it would seem that an ominous message is being sent to public figures to remind them of the original message in the 9/11-anthrax-Beltway sniper season. "Stand down or else."

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