Vatican next says Al Qaeda fax. (or does it?)

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Thursday August 25, 2005 14:26

by getting very religious - sure its God or Patria innit.

Spanish police are investigating two faxes written in arabic signed on behalf of Al Qaeda which threaten an imminent attack on the Vatican.

There has been one arrest.

The lengthy faxes warned of that the Vatican would be attacked for playing its part in the war on Iraq and Afghanistan and supporting Hitler. The faxes cited newspaper reports from the 1940s.

Spanish national police arrested early this morning a man, a citizen of Spain, born in Sevilla 1957 identified only as J.R.M. in relation to two faxes, one was sent to the Spanish state TV station TVE the other to the Barcelona offices of the rightwign daily newspaper ABC.

The faxes were headed "operation vatican".

The man is being held under legislation prohibiting "threats on behalf of a terrorist group", a particularly active law in the spanish state.

Neither the interior ministry of Italy or the Vatican are commenting on the case, on which one spanish police spokesperson in Barcelona had this to say this morning :-

""Siempre se toma en serio (una amenaza)", . "Aunque a veces la persona resulta ser un loco". = "Its always taken seriously (a threat) even though at times the person turns out to be a nutter".

As part of the routine timed release of US secret information, the files relating to Franco's state through the 1940s upto the tenure of Nixon have recently become a regular feature in the spanish media and might have excited imaginations.

In the last month 17 spanish peace-keeping troops serving with the ISAF mission in Afghanistan died when their helicopter crashed,
which has brought some attention to the continuing spanish military deployment in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Haiti.

"operation vatican" reminded both TVE and ABC that an alliance of capitalist states had invaded Iraq for Oil, and that they would reap the harvest.

(the usual sort of language).

Señor J.R.M. worked in a "locotorio" one of the hundreds of call shops and internet cafés in the centre of Barcelona and has admitted to writing several faxes which were sent from the same shop to various european numbers in the last week, not just the final two that got him lagged.

Police are now determining whether the assistance given in writing these 3 pages may constitute a crime.

The file has passed these last 24 hours from the communications office of the national police to the central comission on communications to the spanish equivalent of the dpp.

How the story broke in english .-
(note the level of threat)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,12272,1555891,00.html
How the story is being reported now :-
(note the slight derision)
http://www.eitb24.com/noticia_en.php?id=84578

This is a good example of how stories bounce around the world, already people in South America have read and seen on their telly that the Vatican is going to be attacked, and the follow-up just doesn't get that much attention.

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according to Israeli news sources

by iosaf .:.

Sat Aug 27, 2005 13:14

those 3 men held in Wales ahead of the Wales/EU summit believed to be protesters on climate change and poverty were released in the last hours.

This is the site of the Cardiff Anarchist network
http://crow.riseup.net/cardiffanarchists/
This is the site of Indymedia UK
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/

Which is now back online and completely healthy thank you very much. In my very long experience
anarkistiiiiis aren't Al Q. I could tell you why, but Im not supposed to, and it would use up space and just play the charade.

EVERYONE is invited to register their opinion throughout the EU presidential tenure of the UK.
don't stop.

its Wales.

by ooops

Sat Aug 27, 2005 00:02

sorry about that, you've got to weigh the threat.

Cymru is the next Al Qaeda target.
its official.

Gwent Police today released a short statement confirming the arrests of three men under anti-terrorist legislation, which were made yesterday afternoon, but refused to give further details.

It said: "Three men were arrested by Gwent Police yesterday under the Terrorism Act. The three men, all from the Newport area, were arrested yesterday afternoon after being detained on Chepstow Road in Newport. They are still being detained for questioning."

"There is an ongoing security operation, but it is not necessarily connected to these arrests," a spokeswoman added.

Campaign groups from all over Britain are expected to demonstrate outside the Celtic Manor, in attempt to add further pressure on the politicians to end Third World debt and promote fair trade. That is as we know the background to terrorists events.

Jack Straw is in Celtic Manor to discuss how Wales can help the EU stop climate change and 3rd world poverty.

newport has a small and valued razilian community. Oh! but wait!
they're anarchists.
sorry its not Al Qaeda.
that was a false alarm.
"The Cardiff Anarchist Network, a local collective which endorses direct action and confrontation, is promoting a march on the summit on September 1 organised under the Stop The Summit banner."

aint that traditional. Unfortauntely imc uk is fked up so we can't read about it there.

its japan now.

by iosaf

Fri Aug 26, 2005 23:48

Japan went onto red alert friday after a french anti-terror worker did an interview with the financial times and said al Q could hit the japanese banks.
So far the pick-up is limited in europe to italian media but most of asia are very excited.
This is felt to be progress, last week Al Q and Osama were linking up vilages in indonesia with preachers and trade unionists, but no-one was interested.

but its not just Tokyo, Sydney and Singapore were mentioned too. Sydney has been on red alert since Australian pm Howard met with Blair on the 7th of july so nothing to worry about there.

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Fri Aug 26, 2005 00:32

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Vatican next says Al Qaeda fax. (or does it?)

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