Posted on 06/08/2003 3:27:37 PM PDT by Destro
Death threats made against Pope
Last Updated Sun, 08 Jun 2003 15:02:40
RIJEK, CROATIA - Croatian police were on on high alert Sunday after an Islamic militant group made a death against Pope John Paul II.
It was made by a group called the Islamic Front of el-Mujahadeen, which is based in Bosnia.
Two Croatian news agencies also said they received e-mails saying the Pope would be killed in the name of Allah. The Vatican said it receives such threats from time to time.
The Pope is continuing his tour of Croatia, his 100th foreign trip since ascending to the leadership of the world's one billion Catholics nearly 25 years ago.
There was a heavy police presence at his mass in Rijeka, an Adriatic seaport in the northwestern part of the Balkan country.
Over three-quarters of Croatia's 4.4 million people describe themselves as Roman Catholic.
More than 100,000 people turned out to hear the Pope's sermon, in which he encouraged young Croats to marry, raise families and help their children overcome temptations.
"May you be a people of hope," he said.
He also empathized with the tough economic times Croats face.
The unemployment rate is 20 per cent and the average monthly income is just over $600.
The Pope's five-day visit ends Monday.
Written by CBC News Online staff
The December 14, 1999, arrest of Algerian national Ahmet Ressemi at a U.S.-Canada border crossing in British Columbia – he was in a car full of nitroglycerin and bomb-making materials – was headline news in North America. Many theorized that Ressemi planned to blow up a major structure in the U.S. to start the new millenium.
The theorists could have saved themselves some time by taking a closer look at Ressemi’s past ties, especially those with terrorists trained in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where Ressemi fought as a mujahadeen, or an Islamic “holy warrior.”
It has been confirmed that Ahmet Ressemi had ties with Said Atmani, another terrorist who fought in the “El Mujahadeen” unit in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Canadian authorities deported Atmani back to Bosnia-Herzegovina on October 18, 1998, supposedly without knowing of his alleged participation in terrorist activities through Europe.
The NY Times, in it's "Magazine" edition on February 06, 2000 published that: "Last year, sources in Jordan say, the Mukhabarat, the intelligence service, alerted the C.I.A. to at least three plots by Bosnia-based Islamic terrorists to attack U.S. targets in Europe."
This is nothing new, since on December 24, 1995, Voice of America (VOA) reported that French security forces were searching for a number of Algerian terrorists, members of the notorious Group Islamic Army (GIA). The Algerians were suspects in a Paris Metro bombing which, among others, killed two Canadian tourists. The significant thread here is that the bombers were trained in Afghanistan and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Videotapes confiscated by French police confirmed this fact.
In Bosnia-Herzegovina, where the civil war lasted just over three years, the ties between the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic and known terrorists were exposed quickly. At the beginning of the war, Izetbegovic re-connected with his old friend and a member of ruling clique (National Islamic Front) in Sudan, Dr. Elfatih Hassanein-omal-Fatih.
Thansk destro for posting the article and your helpful words in the past.
Pope would be killed in the name of Allah.
I guess the Muslims win on this one!
I pray for unity in Christ!
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Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II waves to the faithfull during a mass in Rijeka, Croatia, June 8, 2003. The 83-year-old Pope, said he thought that traditional family values were under attack from modern society. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj |
Instigating!
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