Is this a religious war?

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Italy bans flights over Rome

ROME, Dec. 30 (UPI) -- The Italian authorities Tuesday banned flights over Rome until Jan. 6 as a security measure against terrorist attack, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.

This was part of a heightened state of alert in Italy, Ansa said.

On Dec. 24, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told a local Milan paper that terrorists had planned to crash a hijacked plane into the Vatican on Christmas Day.



-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 30, 2003

Answers

You didnt know? Al Queda hated Christainity. ir is seen a sa rival to islam. Sadly, our own lands seem to hate it now as well.

-- zarove (ZAROFF3@JUNO.COM), December 30, 2003.

You didnt know? Al Queda hated Christainity.

Was the person who shot the Pope from Al Queda? I can't remember.

In Christ
Bill



-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 30, 2003.


Mehmet Ali-Agca was the attempted assasin.

-- Paul M. (PaulCyp@cox.net), December 30, 2003.

Thanks, here is the info I obtained via a google search: Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turkish terrorist, shot Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. Originally he claimed to be a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but they stated that he had no ties with them. Later he said he was part of a conspiracy assisted by Bulgaria, which was pressured by the KGB to assassinate the pope because of his support of Poland's Solidarity movement. To date, no definite conclusion has been reached as to the actual motive. Agca was pardoned by Italy's president. Agca returned to Turkey, where he was imprisoned for the murder of a newspaper editor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Ali_Agca

Nope, not Al Quada

Thanks again,
Bill



-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 31, 2003.


The group, "Al Qaeda" ("The Base"), is believed to have been founded in 1989 by Usama Bin Laden and Muhammad Atef (aka "Abu Hafs al Masry"), together with "Abu Ubaidah al Banshiri," and others.

These Saudi/Yemeni sickos don't typically mix with Turks.

-- (@@@.@), December 31, 2003.



So why are they targeting the Vatican?

Bill

-- Bill Nelson (bnelson45@hotmail.com), December 31, 2003.


The Vatican is a bastion of "infidels," of course.

It is competing for conversions, of course.

It is the very source of the Crusades, the most recent one of which they imagine they are enduring.

Remember that we are dealing with crazed, unbaptized, stone-age types here.

-- (@@@.@), December 31, 2003.


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