Pope's attacker 'in grave danger'

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Richard Owen, Rome
January 11, 2006


AN Italian judge who investigated the 1981 murder attempt on John Paul II has warned the would-be assassin that his life will be in grave danger when he is released from jail, because he knows too much.

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Informed of the impending release, a clearly irritated Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican Secretary of State, said: "No one told us anything."

But Monsignor Stanislaw Dziwisz, John Paul's former secretary and now Archbishop of Cracow, said the late pope would have approved of the early release. "He is praying for him from heaven, and I am, too," Monsignor Dziwisz said.
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Ferdinando Imposimato, the retired judge who led the initial inquiry and has since conducted his own research...........said he remained "120per cent convinced" that the murder attempt was planned in Moscow.
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[rooboy]

1. Yikes.... n/t

[Herstal]

2. Doesn't surprise me.

Pope John Paul II was a huge threat to the communists. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the murder attempt was at their behest. John Paul the Great was largely responsible for the communist government of Poland falling, and was a pivotal figure in the collapse of the Warsaw Pact.

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3. He was an even bigger threat to the Vatican. See David Yallop's

'In God's Name' about the murder of JP2's repdecessor JP1.

Piers Compton goes into some detail about JP2's central role in the P2 Lodge. See 'The Broken Cross'.

[Inland]

4. One shouldn't hang out with people OK with assassination.

Dangerous business.