Was WW3 averted

Gonz

Gonz

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Imagine had this happened...

ROME -- Terrorists planned to attack the Vatican with a hijacked plane on Christmas Day, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said in a newspaper interview published Saturday.

Berlusconi told Milan's Libero newspaper of a "precise and verified news of an attack on Rome on Christmas Day."

"A hijacked plane into the Vatican," Berlusconi is quoted as saying. "An attack from the sky, is that clear? The threat of terrorism is very high in this instant. I passed Christmas Eve in Rome to deal with the situation. Now I feel calm. It will pass."

He added, "It isn't fatalism, but the knowledge of having our guard up. If they organized this, they will not pull it off."

Berlusconi gave no further details in the interview about who the intended hijackers were, where the information came from and how the attack was thwarted.

Security has been tightened around the Vatican in recent weeks amid reports that churches could become terrorist targets. During Christmas celebrations, Italian police guarded the perimeter of the vast St. Peter's Square and pilgrims entering the basilica passed through metal detectors.

The Vatican refused Saturday to respond to questions about a possible Christmas threat.

Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a statement, "As in every case of suspected or valid information regarding security themes, I have no comment to make."

Berlusconi's office issued its own statement Saturday, saying the premier's remarks did not amount to official declarations.

"Premier Silvio Berlusconi gave no interview. One cannot confuse a quick exchange of Christmas greetings with political declarations," it said.

The premier also was quoted by Libero as saying he received information in November of another planned attack, on the subways of Milan and Rome.

"There were those who insisted that the stations be closed," Berlusconi is quoted as saying. "I took on myself the responsibility for avoiding certain measures. They would had the same effect on the minds of people as an attack, they would have killed us inside, with dramatic social and economic consequences.

"Terrorism wants to make us close up. I preferred to double up the safety checks."
Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Imagine the world outrage if the Vatican had been attacked? And the ultimate response.
 
Gonz, do you not understand that only 30% of the world population is christian? And about a quarter of those Roman Catholic. There would be a public outcry, but WWIII? I don't think so.
 
30% of the world's population may be true. Add to that the entire (well, most of) the Jewish population. (Judeo/Christian bond is very strong) Also figure that of that 30%, a vast majority live under a well established military-industrial complex. Power, weaponry & revenge...figure it out.
 
And who, specifically, would we go to war with?

I guess all them darned Ay-rabs, huh?
 
chcr said:
And who, specifically, would we go to war with?

I guess all them darned Ay-rabs, huh?
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Well DUH! Who else but those damned infidels? The Crusades never REALLY ended, anyway, did they? :lol:
 
catocom said:
I thought the mad cows were the ones that where going to fly it in. :confused:
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No, that's why we have to declare war on Canada.

WASHINGTON - The Holstein infected with mad cow disease in Washington state was imported into the United States from Canada about two years ago, federal investigators tentatively concluded Saturday.
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Ms Ann Thrope said:
Well DUH! Who else but those damned infidels? The Crusades never REALLY ended, anyway, did they? :lol:
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i think Bush at some point called this the modern day crusuades but was told to take it back since it might offend the Muslim community
 
30% it may be, but it makes up the larger portion of the "first" world while the majority of the other religions fall into the third world... smaller military, less nukes. Killing the Pontif would've been a very BAD mistake.

Most of Europe in Christian. North America and South American GVTs tend to be Christian as well. Australia and parts of South Africa are as well....it would've been messy.

Talk about a Jihad!
 
Killing the Pontif would've been a very BAD mistake.
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But would not start WW3. Evidently, most of you don't know that the reason you are the religion you are is because you (your forebears anyway) did not agree with the vatican and split from them. I promise your church leaders understand it. There would be a great outcry, but it wouldn't start a war at all. 30% are christian, Bish, but less than a quarter of those are roman catholic.
 
chcr said:
But would not start WW3. Evidently, most of you don't know that the reason you are the religion you are is because you (your forebears anyway) did not agree with the vatican and split from them. I promise your church leaders understand it. There would be a great outcry, but it wouldn't start a war at all. 30% are christian, Bish, but less than a quarter of those are roman catholic.
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The guy's still revered by non-Roman Catholics...
Would it have started WWIII? Maybe not...nothing large enough to call WWIII anyway.
Started a large-scale war? Sure...
a Jihad...likely.
Lots of dead (name terrorist country's countrymen here) - most likely

If you want to start WWIII - it'd take the detonation of a nuclear warhead on a 'popular' country, or a dirty atomic weapon...perhaps even a chimical/biological weapon.

Do this anywhere in the USA - WWIII
Do this in Canada - big-scale war
Do this in Europe - big scale war
Do this in Australia - ditto
Do this in Indonesia, Africa, Middle-East, India, Pakistan - :shrug:
Do this is China or Korea....now, you're talking heavy shit. Can you imagine North Korea nuking China? or vice versa? Talk about a volatile situation then!!!
 
Maybe if the worlds catholics were all like the radical protestents in Ireland but i don't think so. Islams teaching are fundamentally different than that of christianity and an attack on the vatican would not carry the same response as say an attack on one of islams holy sites. Besides, Rome or the vatican is hardly the center of christianities faith. Even if it was, it still wouldn't make that much of a difference.
As far as i'm concerned an attack on the vatican would be no worse than the attack on the WTC and i think that all but the most extreme catholics would tend to agree.
 
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