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Increased security after threat of terrorist attack at the Vatican
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS:
A foreign intelligence service: two Arabs spoke of the opportunity to 'do something' at the Vatican.
ROME - The alert has been upgraded three days ago, on the eve of the public hearing of Pope Francis. A "demonstrative act in the Vatican" spoke a signal transmitted intelligence to law enforcement.
The alert is based on an intercepted conversation between two Arabs, nothing particularly alarming. But the tension is already high and the threat of terrorism Isis is scary, especially after the decision of the United States and the United Kingdom, which is shared by Italy and other European allies to arm the peshmerga, and more recently to initiate targeted bombings in Iraq .
In St. Peter's Square was increased the number of patrols of police and policemen in uniform, but mostly it was intensified surveillance carried out by men in plain clothes. Better checks are carried out inside, on the directive of the gendarmerie who still has constant exchange of information with the Italian authorities.
The spokesman of the Vatican Press Office, Father Federico Lombardi, however, tends to minimize "For part of the Vatican, the situation is normal and there were no threats or special concerns.
Everything takes place in the normal range. The Italian security has always been some strengthening during the Sunday Angelus and general audiences. "
For weeks of anti-terrorism specialists of the Interior Ministry and the police of the Ros examine the reports that come from the police, often elaborating what is also highlighted by the structures of foreign intelligence.
In recent days, was sent an informative coming from a foreign intelligence service, which showed a conversation between two Arabs on the possibility of "doing something in the Vatican."
The two names were quickly controlled: one of them appeared totally unknown, the other would be passed from Italy about eight months ago. And this has convinced devices to prevent the need to further raise the level of attention, albeit without taking any extraordinary initiative.
The fear of an attack by Islamic fundamentalists, especially the Isis, against a western state was revived by President Barack Obama.
The experts agree the Vatican at the top of the list of possible targets, especially after the position taken last August by the Pope on what is happening in Syria, when he stressed that it was "lawful stop the unjust aggressor.
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