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May 2 2008, AP

The Turkish gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II is applying for Polish citizenship because he wants to live in the country of the late pontiff, whom he called his “spiritual brother.”But the Polish Foreign Ministry said the chances of Mehmet...

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