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| More on the al-Qaeda fax |
| 2005-08-24 |
| Spanish police are investigating an Arabic-language fax sent in Al Qaedaâs name to two media outlets in which the Vatican is criticised for allegedly supporting the Iraq war and Nazi Germany, news reports said on Wednesday. The fax, sent from an unspecified office in Barcelona to Spanish National Television and the ABC daily, also justified the terror attacks in London and Madrid. ABC said police were treating the document with caution, but believe it may have come from an Al Qaeda sympathiser rather than a terror cell. The newspaper said police had not detected any specific threat in the fax. Police could not immediately be reached for comment. The fax is entitled âOperation Vaticanâ and âIraq and the world terrorist attack.â In it, the author says the bomb attacks in London in July and last year in Madrid were âin self-defense against the terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.â According to the paper, the document criticises the Vatican for its alleged role in the extermination of millions of Jews in World War II, saying, âHitler was a scapegoat of the Vatican and 44 million people were assassinated by the Nazis so as to rob them of their riches.â âThe Iraq war won the support of the Vatican for the capitalist countries, all for Iraqi oil,â the paper quoted the fax as saying. âThose governments will reap the harvest for their support and for the reason they killed.â ABC said police had a good idea who may be behind the fax, based on where it was sent from. The paper said the fax was written in two parts, one dealing with terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the other with the Vaticanâs alleged support for Nazi Germany. The second part is believed to have been copied from a book or a newspaper article, ABC said. In certain paragraphs, it cites an unspecified article from The New York Times published in December 1941. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #1 Again, it sounds more like a leftist than Islamist. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-08-24 21:40 |