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Saturday 25 April 2015
Italian authorities: Terror suspects planned Vatican attack
COLLEEN BARRY Vatican spokesman. also said the process of five of the suspects were cluding the October 2009
Associated Press At the time of the suspect- translating the wiretaps responsible for plotting explosion in a market in Pe-
MILAN (AP) — Islamic ex- ed plot to bomb the Vati- was painstaking. “numerous bloody acts of shawar in which more than
tremists suspected in a can, Pope Benedict XVI Authorities said some of terrorism in Pakistan,” in- 100 people died.q That
bomb attack in a Pakistani was still reeling from the ef-
market that killed more fects in the Muslim world of Italian police officers arrest a suspect in Olbia, Italy, Friday, April 24, 2015. Islamic extremists sus-
than 100 people had also a 2006 speech in Regens- pected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned
planned an attack against burg, Germany, in which an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out, an Italian prosecutor said Friday.
the Vatican in 2010 that he quoted a Byzantine em-
was never carried out, peror who characterized (AP Photo/Antonio Satta)
an Italian prosecutor said some of the teachings of
Friday.The alleged foiled the Prophet Muhammad
plot, known to authorities as “evil and inhuman,” par-
for years, was revealed as ticularly “his command to
prosecutors announced spread by the sword the
the results of a decade- faith.”
long investigation into an While relations with the Mus-
Italy-based terror network lim world were eventually
that aimed to stop Paki- repaired, tensions flared
stan’s actions against the again in 2011 when Cairo’s
Taliban. Police arrested al-Azhar institute, the pre-
nine suspects related to the eminent theological school
probe Friday throughout It- of Sunni Islam, suspended
aly. Another nine were be- interfaith talks with the Vati-
ing sought, three of whom can after Benedict called
were believed to still be in for greater protections for
the country. Egypt’s minority Christians.
Wiretaps collected as part More recently, Italian offi-
of the investigation gave cials have made clear they
“signals of some prepara- take seriously the threat of
tion for a possible attack” the Islamic State group to
at the Vatican, prosecutor conquer Rome and the
Mauro Mura told a news seat of Christianity. Security
conference in Cagliari, Sar- has been beefed up at the
dinia. That included the ar- Vatican and the head of
rival in Rome of a Pakistani the Swiss Guards has said
suicide bomber, Mura said. they are ready but that
The Pakistani eventually they have no information
left Italy, Mura said, with- about an imminent threat.
out explaining why. The Pope Francis himself has
Italian news agency ANSA said he realizes he may be
reported that there were a target but that he fears
two suicide bombers and mostly for the innocent
that they were warned off crowds who come to see
by their associates in Italy him every time he’s in pub-
when police began ex- lic.
ecuting search warrants in “We are all exposed and
the wider investigation of we are all afraid,” said the
the Italy-based Islamic ter- Vatican secretary of state,
ror network. Pietro Parolin. “But the
The Vatican downplayed pope is very calm for this,
the significance of the al- it’s enough to watch him
leged plot. meeting people with great
“From what it appears, clarity and serenity.”
this concerns a hypothesis The investigation was
that dates from 2010 which launched in 2005, but Mura
didn’t occur. It has there- said it was slowed when
fore no relevance today news of the investigation
and no reason for particu- leaked to the media, alert-
lar concern,” said the Rev. ing the suspects that they
Federico Lombardi, the were being watched. He
Saturday 25 April 2015
Italian authorities: Terror suspects planned Vatican attack
COLLEEN BARRY Vatican spokesman. also said the process of five of the suspects were cluding the October 2009
Associated Press At the time of the suspect- translating the wiretaps responsible for plotting explosion in a market in Pe-
MILAN (AP) — Islamic ex- ed plot to bomb the Vati- was painstaking. “numerous bloody acts of shawar in which more than
tremists suspected in a can, Pope Benedict XVI Authorities said some of terrorism in Pakistan,” in- 100 people died.q That
bomb attack in a Pakistani was still reeling from the ef-
market that killed more fects in the Muslim world of Italian police officers arrest a suspect in Olbia, Italy, Friday, April 24, 2015. Islamic extremists sus-
than 100 people had also a 2006 speech in Regens- pected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned
planned an attack against burg, Germany, in which an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out, an Italian prosecutor said Friday.
the Vatican in 2010 that he quoted a Byzantine em-
was never carried out, peror who characterized (AP Photo/Antonio Satta)
an Italian prosecutor said some of the teachings of
Friday.The alleged foiled the Prophet Muhammad
plot, known to authorities as “evil and inhuman,” par-
for years, was revealed as ticularly “his command to
prosecutors announced spread by the sword the
the results of a decade- faith.”
long investigation into an While relations with the Mus-
Italy-based terror network lim world were eventually
that aimed to stop Paki- repaired, tensions flared
stan’s actions against the again in 2011 when Cairo’s
Taliban. Police arrested al-Azhar institute, the pre-
nine suspects related to the eminent theological school
probe Friday throughout It- of Sunni Islam, suspended
aly. Another nine were be- interfaith talks with the Vati-
ing sought, three of whom can after Benedict called
were believed to still be in for greater protections for
the country. Egypt’s minority Christians.
Wiretaps collected as part More recently, Italian offi-
of the investigation gave cials have made clear they
“signals of some prepara- take seriously the threat of
tion for a possible attack” the Islamic State group to
at the Vatican, prosecutor conquer Rome and the
Mauro Mura told a news seat of Christianity. Security
conference in Cagliari, Sar- has been beefed up at the
dinia. That included the ar- Vatican and the head of
rival in Rome of a Pakistani the Swiss Guards has said
suicide bomber, Mura said. they are ready but that
The Pakistani eventually they have no information
left Italy, Mura said, with- about an imminent threat.
out explaining why. The Pope Francis himself has
Italian news agency ANSA said he realizes he may be
reported that there were a target but that he fears
two suicide bombers and mostly for the innocent
that they were warned off crowds who come to see
by their associates in Italy him every time he’s in pub-
when police began ex- lic.
ecuting search warrants in “We are all exposed and
the wider investigation of we are all afraid,” said the
the Italy-based Islamic ter- Vatican secretary of state,
ror network. Pietro Parolin. “But the
The Vatican downplayed pope is very calm for this,
the significance of the al- it’s enough to watch him
leged plot. meeting people with great
“From what it appears, clarity and serenity.”
this concerns a hypothesis The investigation was
that dates from 2010 which launched in 2005, but Mura
didn’t occur. It has there- said it was slowed when
fore no relevance today news of the investigation
and no reason for particu- leaked to the media, alert-
lar concern,” said the Rev. ing the suspects that they
Federico Lombardi, the were being watched. He
