Religions > Atheism > Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981
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"Sound of Trumpet" |
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02 Mar 2006 08:48:38 AM |
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Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_re_eu/italy_john_paul_shooting
Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer
58 minutes ago
ROME - An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any
reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to
kill Pope John Paul II - a theory long alleged but never proved,
according to a draft report made available Thursday.
The commission held that the pope was a danger to the Soviet bloc
because of his support for the Solidarity labor movement in his native
Poland. Solidarity was the first free trade union in communist eastern
Europe.
"This commission believes, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the
leaders of the Soviet Union took the initiative to eliminate the pope
Karol Wojtyla," said a draft of the commission's report obtained by The
Associated Press.
Wojtyla was John Paul's Polish name.
The draft has no bearing on any judicial investigations, which have
long been closed.
The report also said a photograph shows that a Bulgarian man acquitted
of involvement in the May 13, 1981, assassination attempt was in St.
Peter's Square when the pontiff was shot by Mehmet Ali Agca.
The Bulgarian secret service allegedly was working for Soviet military
intelligence, but the Italian court held that the evidence was
insufficient to convict the Bulgarians in the plot.
Agca, a Turk, has changed his story often and investigators said it was
never clear who he was working for. He initially blamed the Soviets.
Agca served 19 years in an Italian prison for shooting the pope and
then 5 1/2 years in Turkey for murdering journalist Abdi Ipekci.
He was released from the Turkish prison Jan. 12 but returned days later
when prosecutors said he must serve more of his 10-year term for
killing Ipekci. He will be released in 2010.
The Italian commission was originally established to investigate any
KGB penetration of Italy during the Cold War.
The commission president, Sen. Paolo Guzzanti, said he decided to
investigate the 1981 shooting after John Paul said in his book "Memory
and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums" that "someone else
planned it, someone else commissioned it." The book came out shortly
before the pope's death last year.
Sergei Antonov, former Rome station manager of Bulgaria's state
airline, claimed during his trial that he was in his office when John
Paul was shot. Italy had accused him of complicity with Agca.
Antonov's lawyer, Giuseppe Consolo, said it was a case of mistaken
identity and the man in the photograph came forward during the
investigation as an American tourist of Hungarian origin. Consolo said
the photo was not used as evidence in the trial.
The report must be approved by the full commission, which meets March
7.
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| User: "Josef Balluch" |
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| Title: Re: Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
02 Mar 2006 10:55:00 AM |
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In a message sent 'round the world, Sound of Trumpet poured fuel on the
fire with the following:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_re_eu/italy_john_paul_shooting
Italian Panel: Soviets Behind Pope Attack
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON, Associated Press Writer
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Not so:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0062/0062_01.asp
Regards,
Josef
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.
When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by
minding other people's business.
-- Eric Hoffer
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| User: "Parsifal" |
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| Title: Re: Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
02 Mar 2006 10:59:41 AM |
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Moron
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
02 Mar 2006 04:04:14 PM |
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On 2 Mar 2006 06:48:38 -0800, "Sound of Trumpet"
<soundoftrumpet@lycos.com> wrote:
The commission held that the pope was a danger to the Soviet bloc
because of his support for the Solidarity labor movement in his native
Poland.
Which makes atheism irrelevant to the attempted assassination.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "JohnN" |
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| Title: Re: Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
02 Mar 2006 09:49:48 PM |
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Who says they didn't and then replaced him with their clone?
JohnN
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: Atheist Soviet Union Tried To Murder Pope In 1981 |
02 Mar 2006 10:26:49 PM |
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In <1141357788.596001.269500@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>, "JohnN"
<jnorris53@hotmail.com> wrote:
Who says they didn't and then replaced him with their clone?
SSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Ixnay ethay alktay aboutway ethay oneclay!
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Mark K. Bilbo
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