Last Updated: Thursday, 2 March 2006, 17:02 GMT E-mail this to a friend Printable version Soviets 'ordered Pope shooting' The Pope was shot while riding in an open car An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded that the former Soviet Union was behind the 1981 assassination attempt on the late Pope John Paul II. The head of the commission, Paolo Guzzanti, said it was sure beyond "reasonable doubt" that Soviet leaders ordered the shooting. Turkish national Mehmet Ali Agca, now 48, shot the Pope in St Peter's Square on 13 May 1981, hitting him four times. Agca never gave a motive, and mystery has continued to surround the shooting. A link between Agca and Bulgarian agents, and through them to the Soviet Union's KGB, has been the subject of speculation over the years. Solidarity links The commission released the final draft of its report to journalists on Thursday. "This commission believes, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the leaders of the USSR took the initiative to eliminate Pope Karol Wojtyla," the report said. Agca fired at Pope John Paul as he waved to crowds in Rome Enlarge Image Soviet leaders "communicated this decision to the military secret service in order that it carry out the necessary operations", it continued. The commission said the Soviet Union felt the Pope was a danger because of his support for the democracy-linked Solidarity labour movement in Poland, his native country. It also said that it had photographic evidence showing a Bulgarian man, one of six men acquitted in 1986 of orchestrating the assassination attempt, was in St Peter's Square at the time of the shooting. The findings came from a commission set up to investigate Cold War secrets revealed by Vasili Mitrokhin, a KGB archivist who defected to the UK in 1992. Agca served nearly 20 years in an Italian jail for the crime. He is currently in prison in Turkey for the murder of a journalist. ********** The head of the commission, Paolo Guzzanti, said it was sure beyond "reasonable doubt" that Soviet leaders ordered the shooting. What a disgrace, these parasites i hope its a cold day in hell before we let them join the european union, i suppose we should have guessed it was these nuts behind it, after all stalin killed millions of his people during world war 2. All because he was from poland,& his support for the democracy-linked Solidarity labour movement & like the germans before them they still see poland as theres. They have gas & oil & they are breast feeding most of europe with it, they blow up gas pipes in winter time because they have disputes, russia is the most backward country in europe. The only people getting richer in russia are the kgb & mafia (also the kgb) & politicians, i say stuff the gas there oil, and there vodka. Trying to kill the pope, just how stupid are these people, what next are they going to put a contract out on bambi.
Stuff fucking oil & gas, why the hell do we need gas for anyway, theres enough gas in baked beans to blow the universe up with. Its outdated its expensive, the price has went through the roof since the ruskies started supplying it, it causes explosions, screw it electricity does the job better, & the ruskies are not fixing the price for that. Oil we need that like a hole in the head, there are millions of ways out there now to run cars with from sugar to ethanol, put these oil maggots out of business, i hate cars i have been run over 4 times by the stupid things, whoever invented the car should be shot. And whoever invented the use of gas, should be gassed in the old gas chambers of germany.