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Pope John Paul II talks with his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca during a private meeting in Agca's prison cell in Rome in this December 27, 1983 file photo. In his book, Pope John Paul II described the minutes after he was gravely wounded in 1981, saying he was fearful and in pain, but had "a strange feeling of confidence" that he would live. The book also said Agca "understood that above his power — the power of shooting and killing — there is a greater power."
ISTANBUL, APRIL 1. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish extremist who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, is praying for him from his Istanbul prison cell, his lawyer Mustafa Demirbag said today. ``My client is very sad,'' Mr. Demirbag said in a telephonic interview. ``His thoughts are with his brother, the pope, and he is praying for him.'' Agca, 47, was ``deeply touched'' by the news and ``wishes him a speedy recovery.'' Mr. Agca opened fire on the Pope at Saint Peter's Square as he was headed for an audience in an open vehicle. Mr. Agca's motives remain unclear. The Pope was seriously wounded in the abdomen. Mr. Agca spent the next 19 years in Italian prisons before being extradited to Turkey in 2000. Upon his return to Turkey, Mr. Agca, who was forgiven by John Paul II, was jailed for a bank robbery in the 1970s and was awarded life-term for murdering a Turkish journalist. The life sentence was later reduced to 10 years' imprisonment. — AFP
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