Terrorists Planned To Assasinate Pope in 1995 (my title)

Washington Post ^ | 09/23/01 | Struck, Schneider, Vick, Baker

[Crouching Intern Stolen Sofa]

....Arrested and tortured by Philippine intelligence agents, Murad told the story of "Bojinka" -- "loud bang" -- the code name bin Laden operatives had given to an audacious plan to bomb 11 U.S. airliners simultaneously and fly an airplane into the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. -- all after attempting to assassinate Pope John Paul II.... Read entire article "HERE ...

[Crouching Intern Stolen Sofa]

Felt this needed to be posted after reading about the Pope's appeal...

[Theresa]

"For weeks, agents hit him with a chair and a long piece of wood, forced water into his mouth, and crushed lighted cigarettes into his private parts,"

Note to self. Don't ever get arrested in Manilla.

[ET(end tyranny)]

Passports...including Norwegian... not exactly the Mid East type.

And they passed the information on, so authorities knew in advance, not that they knew when, BUT airport security remained a risk, and we are supposed to bail their sorry a**es out of debt?????

[Alberta's Child]

I'm sure the Pope was the least concerned person in the world when he heard about this. The man who attempted to assassinate him back in 1981, Mehmat Ali Agca, was interviewed by an Italian reporter a few years ago, and he said that there was no doubt in his mind that the Pope had been protected by divine intervention.

"I was an assassin by trade," he said, "and the Pope was the first person to ever survive one of my attempts."

I thought that was interesting.

[JustPiper]

Bump! This is deep!

[ArcLight]

Stunning stuff. If our government knew this much about these guys, why hasn't it done more to stop them?

[Fred]

Clinton was president at the time. He had no problem with bin Laden or other terrorist orgs.