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This could change the minds of a lot of people who had hoped they could safely ignore terrorism.
The Premiere of Italy stated that terrorists had planned to fly a hijacked plane into the Vatican.
Leader: Terrorists Planned To Attack Vatican On Christmas
Security Tightened Around Vatican In Recent Weeks
ROME-Terrorists planned to attack the Vatican with a hijacked plane on Christmas Day, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said in a newspaper interview published Saturday.
Berlusconi told Milan's Libero newspaper of a "precise and verified news of an attack on Rome on Christmas Day."
"A hijacked plane into the Vatican," Berlusconi is quoted as saying. "An attack from the sky, is that clear? The threat of terrorism is very high in this instant. I passed Christmas Eve in Rome to deal with the situation. Now I feel calm. It will pass."
He added, "It isn't fatalism, but the knowledge of having our guard up. If they organized this, they will not pull it off."
This is going to wake up a lot of people who had been hoping they might be able to stay out of the way of or otherwise appease the terrorists-including Italy as a nation and Christians in other European countries.
When the news came out about the attempt by Al Quaida to hijack a French plane bound for Las Vegas, I noticed a particular incongruity. In 9-11 Al Qaida made a point of crashing planes full of fuel. A plane coming to Las Vegas from France would be about out of fuel.
So it seems possible that the French plane is the one that was bound for the Vatican.
Naturally, the major media hasn't printed giant headlines congratulating George Bush and the CIA on stopping that French Plane from being hijacked. I guess it's up to the us in the blogosphere.
Congratulations To George Bush
And To The CIA
On Stopping The Hijacking
Of The French Airliner!
