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Vatican Plays Down Email Threat to
Pope
OSIJEK, Croatia (Reuters) - The Vatican
(news
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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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