Soviets behind pope shooting

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Soviets blamed in pope shooting

By Victor L. Simpson
ASSOCIATED PRESS
March 3, 2006

ROME -- An Italian parliamentary commission concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt" that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II -- a theory long proffered but never proved, according to a draft report made available yesterday.

The commission held that the pope was a danger to the Soviet bloc because of his support for the Solidarity labor movement in his native Poland.

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