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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Another exercise in peace and understanding (Priest Shot in Turkey)

Posted: 2/7/2006 3:32:55 PM EDT

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/05/AR2006020500879.html

Catholic Priest Shot to Death in Turkey

By SUZAN FRASER
The Associated Press
Sunday, February 5, 2006; 8:08 PM

ANKARA, Turkey -- A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting "God is great" as he escaped, according to police and witnesses.

Officers were searching for the boy aged around 14 or 15, according to a police official who declined to be identified because of rules that bar Turkish civil servants from speaking to journalists without prior authorization.

Turkish police officers carry the body of Italian Roman Catholic priest Andrea Santaro, 60, who was shot in the chest with a single bullet, hours after a Sunday mass in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, Turkey, Sunday Feb. 5, 2006. His body was found in the courtyard, just outside the door of the 19th Century Santa Maria Church, which was built under Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid to serve Christians visiting Trabzon.(AP Photo/Zafer Sel, Anatolia) (Zafer Sel - AP)

The police official would not say if the attack might be linked to the printing in European newspapers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, which has caused anger in Muslim countries. Earlier Sunday, hundreds of Turks protested in Istanbul against the cartoons.

"Whether the killing is linked to the caricatures will emerge when the culprit has been caught," Trabzon's Gov. Huseyin Yavuzdemir said.

The priest, 60-year-old Andrea Santoro, was shot hours after Mass at Santa Maria Church.

A woman who answered the telephone at the church said the priest was inside when he was attacked, and prosecutor Burhan Cobanoglu said he was shot twice from behind, with bullets ripping through his heart and liver.

Pope Benedict XVI's envoy in Turkey, Monsignor Antonio Lucibello, said he had spoken by telephone with a witness who said she saw the attacker fleeing and "heard the young man shout 'Allah Akbar' (God is Great).'"

Lucibello declined to speculate on the motive for the killing, but said there were "no elements" to link the attack with the protests over the newspaper cartoons. my how PC of them to say that..... wonder what other reason the ROPers have to get all riled up this week, other than months old cartoons....

Turkey's government denounced the attack.

"We condemn with hatred the fact that the murder was committed in a house of worship against a man of religion," said Justice Minister Cemil Cicek.

Sounds like the religion of peace is once again showing it's true colors

Posted: 2/8/2006 4:12:48 PM EDT

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2 day bump

Posted: 2/8/2006 4:15:35 PM EDT

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Wow, WWIII is just around the corner. Time to stock up on condoms and bullets

Posted: 2/8/2006 4:25:25 PM EDT

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Wow, WWIII is just around the corner. Time to stock up on condoms and bullets

Condoms?

Posted: 2/8/2006 4:28:46 PM EDT

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Wow, WWIII is just around the corner. Time to stock up on condoms and bullets

Uh I think not. What they gunna start it with? If you haven't noticed they are not the brightest bulbs in the bunch and they are WAY behind the curve in terms of the arms/training race. This pussy, ridiculously ineffective, “terrorist” shit is all they got. They are just desperate, they use kids for christ sake.

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Another exercise in peace and understanding (Priest Shot in Turkey)

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