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| Issue #37 / The Monthly Journal of the American Hacker / May 2007 |
"Not for the first time, the Vatican had been economical with the truth. [Mehmet Ali] Agca had confirmed what Luigi Poggi had been told by the Mossad. The plot to kill the pope had been nurtured in Tehran. The knowledge would color John Paul's attitude toward both Islam and Israel. Increasingly, he told his staff that the real coming conflict in the world was not going to be between the East and West, the United States and Russia, but between Islamic fundamentalism and Christianity. In public, he was careful to separate Islam, the faith, and Islamic fundamentalism."
--- Excerpt from Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas about the 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.
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