Thank you William Zambrano for giving this link….
this is really something….
when you just think what this Ali Agca is writing and witnessing:
“…this is the last generation…”
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36845
AFP: 2/3/2005
ISTANBUL, Feb 3 (AFP) - The Turk who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981 issued a message from jail here Thursday, containing a wish of speedy recovery for the ailing pontiff and a bizarre call on him to acknowledge that the world has come close to an end.
Mehmet Ali Agca, 46, was extradited to Turkey in June 2000 after serving 19 years in Italy for shooting and seriously wounding the Pope, who has forgiven him for the attack.
In a brief handwritten statement in Italian faxed to AFP by his lawyer, Mustafa Demirbag, Agca wished the pope swift recovery.
"Dear Pope John Paul II, I and you suffer for the fulfillment of a divine universal plan... I thank you for having revealed on May 13, 2000 the third secret of Fatima.
"Dear Pope, you must now confirm that we are at the end of the world. This is the last generation of humanity on Planet Earth. Only like this will God give you health and miraculous strength for the coming years.
"In any case, I embrace you Karol Wojtyla. I give you my best wishes," Agca wrote, addressing the pontiff with his Polish name.
The 84-year-old Pope John Paul II was rushed to hospital late Tuesday suffering from respiratory problems related to flu.
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said Thursday that the results of a battery of medical tests carried out by his doctors showed he was responding well to treatment.
The pope, who also suffers from Parkinson's disease, has been dogged by shortage of breath in recent years.
Agca, then a 23-year-old member of the far-right Turkish Grey Wolves movement, fired at the pope three times as he drove across Saint Peter's Square in an open car to hold a general audience on May 13, 1981.
The motive of the attack remains a mystery. The suspected involvement of then communist Bulgaria and Soviet intelligence was never proven.
Agca, seen as a deranged person by many and a sly operator by others, has given contradictory testimonies on his role in the attack, frequently changing his version and forcing investigators to open dozens of inquiries.
After his extradition to Turkey following an Italian presidential pardon, Agca was sentenced to seven years and four months in jail for an armed robbery in Istanbul in the 1970s, for which he is now serving time.
His lawyers claim he has qualified to benefit from a 2002 amnesty for another sentence -- a life term reduced to 10 years by a previous pardon for the 1979 murder of a Turkish journalist.
An Istanbul court, however, threw out a request for his early release last November.
02/03/2005 16:57 GMT - AFP