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Vatican Plays Down Email Threat to Pope
Sat Jun 7, 5:16 AM ET
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OSIJEK, Croatia (Reuters) - The Vatican (news - web sites) played down Saturday the importance of an email message which threatened an attack on the Pope during his current visit to Croatia.

 

The email, sent to two Croatian news agencies, purported to come from a group called the "Islamic Front el Mudjehedin" and threatened to kill the Pope during his 100th foreign trip.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said it was fairly common for the church to receive information about possible threats to the Pontiff.

"Naturally the credibility of this information is very doubtful and on past occasions has proven to be clearly false," he told reporters on a flight between the cities of Rijeka and Osijek, where the Pope was to hold a mass later Saturday.

A Croatian police spokeswoman told national news agency HINA that police were trying to trace the sender of the email, which appeared to have come from neighboring Bosnia.


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