The World - News from Sept. 24, 1985
A Turkish witness admitted that he obtained a pistol for Mehmet Ali Agca, who later tried to kill Pope John Paul II, but he said he had doubted that Agca would carry out his assassination threat. Abdullah Catli, who said he once headed a section of the right-wing Turkish Gray Wolves guerrilla group, told a Rome court that the group was not involved and that Agca acted alone. Catli is not charged in the 1981 attack on the Pope.
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