It was inevitable, but it's still disconcerting: the man who shot Pope John Paul II will be released from a Turkish prison after completing his sentences. However, the dark forces who set him in motion have not forgotten what he knows.
The Italian judge who investigated the 1981 murder attempt on John Paul II has warned the Turkish would-be assassin that his life will be "in grave danger" when he is released from jail because he "knows too much".Mehmet Ali Agca, 48, is to be released from Kartal high security jail in Turkey for good behaviour, perhaps as early as tomorrow.
Ferdinando Imposimato, the retired judge who led the initial inquiry and has since conducted his own research, said that 25 years after the shooting in St Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981, "many mysteries remain".
He... [remains] "120 per cent convinced" that the murder had been "planned in Moscow".
"The Kremlin started to plot the Pope’s murder the moment he was elected in October 1978," Signor Imposimato said.
The untold secrets however included the alleged involvement in the conspiracy of East European agents in the Vatican as well as of their Bulgarian and Turkish accomplices, and the alleged presence on the square of other gunmen. "I am convinced that once he is free, Agca’s life will be in grave danger because he knows many truths about the plot," the judge said.
As noted here previously, the complicity of the USSR and its East European henchmen was corroborated just last year.
New documents found in the files of the former East German intelligence services confirm the 1981 assassination attempt against Pope John Paul II was ordered by the Soviet KGB and assigned to Bulgarian and East German agents.Posted by Alan at January 9, 2006 12:14 PM