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TERRORIST PLOT AGAINST POPE WAS FOILED BY MIRACULOUS EXPLOSION

@Spirit Daily

A published report says that a terrorist plot by Osama Bin Laden 
against
Pope John Paul II during a visit in 1995 to the Philippines was foiled 
when
a miraculous accident caused an explosion in the Manila apartment where 
a
bomb was being readied just a week before the pontiff's visit. The plot
involved use of a fragmentary bomb and timer inside a digital watch. 
When
officers investigated they found the apartment laden with a crucifix,
Bibles, and cassocks -- indicating that the terrorists were going to
disguise themselves as priests. Italian police are now on high alert at 
all
papal functions.

In recent years, John Paul II has been the object of at least three 
failed
plots on his life by fundamentalist terrorist groups, according to 
political
and press sources. The CIA says the mastermind behind the Philippines 
plot
was terrorist Ramzy Youssef, who has worked under the direction of Bin 
Laden
and who two years earlier organized the first attack on World Trade 
Center.

One of the terrorists set in place in the Philippines was Abdulhakim
Alihashim Murad -- who was arrested at Dońa Josefa apartment on Quirino
Ave., Manila, which is only 150 meters away from the Papal Nunciature 
House.
Murad had training as a pilot. "Authorities also recovered a map 
covering
the areas of Manila, indicating [a plot] to disrupt the visit of the 
Pope at
the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference at the San Carlos Seminary 
along
Edsa, Guadalupe, Makati City on Jan. 15, 1995," according to the Cebu
Sun-Star. Recovered from Murad were also a laptop computer, a map of 
the
Pope's itinerary, and photographs of John Paul II.

U.S. officials said the plot against the Pope was discovered in January 
of
1995 when Filipino firemen were summoned to the apartment in response 
to
reports of smoke billowing from the windows. The firefighters called in
police when they found smoldering chemicals in the empty apartment,
according to the Charlotte Observer.  Later, authorities confiscated a
computer disk that described plans to blow up a dozen 747 jumbo jets 
over
the Pacific Ocean and to assassinate John Paul II.

See also previous report

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