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(Italian) Leader: Terrorists Planned To Attack Vatican On Christmas
WKMG 6 (AP) ^ | December 27, 2003

Posted on 12/27/2003 10:19:44 AM PST by ElkGroveDan

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To: Calpernia
Why should we defend Europe......they shove our noses in every chance they get.......so if AQ decides to make one of the appeasers a target.......they are on their own.
21 posted on 12/27/2003 12:04:07 PM PST by Dog
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To: ElkGroveDan
If this had been successful, all of Europe would have been galvanized toward the War on Terror.

Hate to say it, but they won't get it until they get hit.
22 posted on 12/27/2003 12:05:18 PM PST by ConservativeConvert
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To: ElkGroveDan
I am not a Catholic, so I don't look at the Vatican as a "religious shrine".

But, having visited there, I look at it as an incomparable and irreplaceable repository for some of the grandest building, painting, art, objects, and culture of many centuries of the Western World.

When I say it is "irreplaceable", I mean just that. It is a treasure which the Catholic Church has collected and preserved for the Glory of God and it indeed gives Him and His creation the glory.

If the Islamics were to destroy it, it would simply be an atrocity beyond reckoning. If they succeed in destroying the Vatican, Mecca should be next.

Christianity can spiritually survive without bowing to the Vatican. Islamics can't spiritually survive without bowing or hadjiing to Mecca. If it were gone, they would be like a hive of bees with a destroyed nest and queen; doomed!

If they insist on that type of war, we should bring it to them and let them suffer the consequences of their fanaticism.

23 posted on 12/27/2003 12:05:37 PM PST by Gritty
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To: FairOpinion; Dog
I believe it was suspected that one of the AirFrance planes OR terrorists was bound for Las Vegas.
24 posted on 12/27/2003 12:06:47 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: ElkGroveDan
You know all these reported 'almost attacks' reminds me of teenage boys bragging about how many girls they've had. When in reality all they've had is 'Rosie Palm'.
25 posted on 12/27/2003 12:09:16 PM PST by vladog
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To: Dog
Even the Vatican? Now if you said, the Effle Tower....No arguements from me; but the Vatican?
26 posted on 12/27/2003 12:10:33 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Calpernia
Not Vatican..
27 posted on 12/27/2003 12:12:18 PM PST by Dog
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To: seamole
Bush did say we were taking the war to the terrorists.
29 posted on 12/27/2003 12:34:00 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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31 posted on 12/27/2003 12:38:03 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
What do they have planned for the future, lobbing grenades into kindergarten schools?

Too Late. Where have you been? They have been doing that for years.
I do not choose to refer to them as sandmaggots and mangy dogs lightly.

32 posted on 12/27/2003 12:59:42 PM PST by Publius6961 (40% of Californians are as dumb as a sack of rocks.)
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To: Dog
No, it's always been a religous war to them.

Osama and the rest of the Wahhabist clerics have always preached that the goals of Christians and Jews is to destroy Islam, and that they must fight back.

If it's not a religious war, what is it then?
33 posted on 12/27/2003 1:12:01 PM PST by Guillermo (Happy Ramahannakwaanzmas!)
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To: ElkGroveDan
You mean after the Pope kissed the Koran and condemned the War In Iraq they are still mad at him ???????
34 posted on 12/27/2003 1:15:22 PM PST by uncbob
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To: Calpernia
I don't believe that the US had ANY carriers in the Med on 12/25.

35 posted on 12/27/2003 1:38:43 PM PST by PAR35
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To: ElkGroveDan
I wonder if the french will accuse Berscoloni of fabricating this threat to help his poll numbers?
36 posted on 12/27/2003 1:54:32 PM PST by monkeywrench
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To: PAR35
If we did, what is your opinion about one of ours shooting it down since it wasn't on our land? We were taking the war to the terrorists.
37 posted on 12/27/2003 2:12:08 PM PST by Calpernia (Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.)
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To: uncbob
"You mean after the Pope kissed the Koran and condemned the War In Iraq they are still mad at him ???????"

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Well, he did stop short of converting to Islam and turning the Vatican into a mosque...
38 posted on 12/27/2003 2:37:08 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Gritty
I am not a Catholic, so I don't look at the Vatican as a "religious shrine".

What an odd thing to say.

I look at the Wailing Wall and the Temple Mount as religious shrines, though I am neither Jewish nor Muslim. I also look at the structure across the street as a home, even though I don't live there.

39 posted on 12/27/2003 2:38:40 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: Gritty
Two years later, and many people here still don't get it. The terrorists would love nothing better than for us to hit Mecca. Talk like that is playing right into their hands.
40 posted on 12/27/2003 2:44:59 PM PST by kms61
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