Vatican Possible Target of Islamic Terrorist Attack

An Italian prosecutor said Friday that the Vatican may have been a target for a terrorist attack.

The prosecutor, Mauro Mura, was investigating an Islamic terrorist network operating in Italy. The same network was responsible for killing more than 100 people in a 2009 bomb attack in Pakistan.

Mura said a Pakistani suicide bomber had arrived in Italy in March 2010 to plan an attack. However, the terrorist eventually left Italy without carrying out the attack.

The news of the planned attack came Friday after police arrested nine suspected terrorists. The arrests were the result of a decade-long investigation into the extremist terror network. The suspected terrorists were accused of plotting attacks in Pakistan to halt Islamabad’s actions against the Taliban.

The police issued arrest warrants for 18 suspected terrorists. Of the nine not arrested, two are still believed to be in Italy.

Italian news agency ansa reported that two suicide bombers might have left after being warned by an al Qaeda affiliate when police began executing search warrants in the case.

An official from Italy’s counterterror police called the raids “one of the most important operations ever carried out in Italy.” The operation targeted an extremely well-structured terror network based in Sardinia that has links to al Qaeda.

This is yet another example of radical Islamic terrorists seeking to strike the Roman Catholic Church. The Trumpet has reported much on this trend because of Bible prophecies about it. The Bible describes an end-time clash between the king of the north and the king of the south. These two power blocs are guided by religion. For more information about this trend, request our free booklet The King of the South.