Posted on 04/24/2015 4:35:08 PM PDT by markomalley
Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out, an Italian prosecutor said Friday.
The alleged foiled plot, known to authorities for years, was revealed as prosecutors announced the results of a decade-long investigation into an Italy-based terror network that aimed to stop Pakistan's actions against the Taliban. Police arrested nine suspects related to the probe Friday throughout Italy. Another nine were being sought, three of whom were believed to still be in the country.
Wiretaps collected as part of the investigation gave "signals of some preparation for a possible attack" at the Vatican, prosecutor Mauro Mura told a news conference in Cagliari, Sardinia. That included the arrival in Rome of a Pakistani suicide bomber, Mura said.
The Pakistani eventually left Italy, Mura said, without explaining why. The Italian news agency ANSA reported that there were two suicide bombers and that they were warned off by their associates in Italy when police began executing search warrants in the wider investigation of the Italy-based Islamic terror network.
The Vatican downplayed the significance of the alleged plot.
"From what it appears, this concerns a hypothesis that dates from 2010 which didn't occur. It has therefore no relevance today and no reason for particular concern," said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman.
At the time of the suspected plot to bomb the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI was still reeling from the effects in the Muslim world of a 2006 speech in Regensburg, Germany, in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who characterized some of the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad as "evil and inhuman," particularly "his command to spread by the sword the faith."
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Italian authorities: Terror suspects planned Vatican attack
If I had to make any bets, what comes to mind are some mentally challenged individuals associated with the religion of PEACE.....sorry to say, but seldom fails!!
Moslem Jihadists attacking the Vatican?
As Mr. Spock would say, “LOGICAL”.
Look for these peaceful Moslems to attack the biggest churches and synagogues around the world. It is coming because IT IS LOGICAL.
THEN it will be schools full of young children. Another LOGICAL reason for Concealed Carry Permits and carriers on school property. The first, and perhaps only line of defense against a lone-wolf psychopathic Moslem or an organized and trained group like those in Mumbai, Kenya and Paris.
Forearmed is PREPARED.
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