{"id":196987,"date":"2024-12-17T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/suicide-bombers-planned-to-attack-pope-francis-on-visit-to-iraq\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:31:07","slug":"suicide-bombers-planned-to-attack-pope-francis-on-visit-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/suicide-bombers-planned-to-attack-pope-francis-on-visit-to-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bombers ‘planned to attack Pope Francis’ on visit to Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Suicide bombers had planned to attack Pope Francis on a trip to Iraq in 2021, but were killed before they could strike, according to his autobiography.<\/p>\n

British intelligence informed Iraqi<\/a><\/strong> police when Francis<\/a><\/strong> arrived in Baghdad that a woman wearing explosives was heading towards Mosul and was planning to blow herself up during the papal visit.<\/p>\n

“A truck was heading there fast with the same intention,” Francis, 88, says in excerpts of Hope: The Autobiography released by Italian daily newspaper Corriere della Sera.<\/p>\n

In the book, the pope said he later asked his Vatican security team what happened to the suicide bombers.<\/p>\n

“The commander replied laconically, ‘They’re no longer here’,” Francis writes.<\/p>\n

“Iraqi police had intercepted them and made them explode. This struck me as well: even this is the poisonous fruit of war.”<\/p>\n

The trip to Iraq in March 2021 was the first by a pope and took place as the COVID pandemic continued.<\/p>\n

The northern city of Mosul had been the headquarters of Islamic State militants<\/a><\/strong>, whose horrific reign had largely emptied the region of its Christian communities.<\/p>\n

Despite the bomb threats, the visit went ahead<\/a><\/strong> as planned under tight security.<\/p>\n

It became one of the most poignant of Francis’s foreign trips. Standing in the wreckage of a Mosul church, he urged Iraq’s Christians to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild.<\/p>\n

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Hope: The Autobiography, written with Italian author Carlo Musso, is set to be released in more than 80 countries next month at the start of the Vatican’s Holy Year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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