Pope gunman 'offered to capture bin Laden'

[emad]

Pope gunman 'offered to capture bin Laden'
17/01/2006 - 14:28:38

The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II offered in 2000 to capture al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and planed to kill the late Syrian President Hafez Assad, a Turkish newspaper reported today, printing what it said were letters the gunman wrote.

The Hurriyet newspaper printed handwritten letters purportedly penned by Mehmet Ali Agca.

In one letter, dated September 1, 2000, and addressed to the head of the Turkish intelligence agency, Agca asked to be released from prison so he could travel to Afghanistan, infiltrate Bin Laden’s terror network and capture him “dead or alive”.

“I would lovingly carry out this historic mission even if it cost me my life,” Agca wrote. “If I become a national hero in America, this would be good for the Turkish people and the Turkish state.”

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=169513424&p=y695y4y3x

[Strawman]

1. go right ahead. knock yourself out, nutty

[QuettaKid]

2. last I heard on this guy

was he disappeared a day after being released. He was supposed to report for army duty and was a no show.

[tanyev]

3. He couldn't do any worse than Gee Dubya has.

[zann725]

4. Leave it to the Church to hire "hitmen." And this pope, a Hitler youth!

"Interesting..." as that character on "Hogan's Heroes" would say about now.

[jseankil]

6. Uhhh the church didn't hire anyone...

And those in the Hitler youth program didnt have much of a choice...they were children.

[Ben Ceremos]

7. Isn't that from

Laugh-In? Artie Johnson? The Nazi in the bush? did I just write that?

[Broke In Jersey]

5. ...And then he was going to help OJ find the 'real' killer!!!

[951-Riverside]

8. *chuckles*