Man who shot Pope claims he had help from Vatican

ROME (AP) - The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II was quoted Thursday as zaying Vatican prelates helped him carry out the 1981 attack in St. Peter's Square, but the claim was quickly dismissed by a Vatican cardinal.

"Without the help of priests and cardinals I would have not been able to carry out that action," Agca was quoted Thursday as saying in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica. "The devil is within the Vatican."

But in an apparently contradictory remark, Ali Agca also said in the interview that "nobody in the world knew of my attempt."

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