Italy Warns of Terrorist Risk
Italy’s military intelligence agency has warned that the country’s international airports and Pope John Paul II could be the targets of Islamic terrorists, Italian media reported Friday.
The warning was issued late Thursday at a meeting of Italy’s intelligence and security agencies.
It comes amid souring relations between Western Europe and Iran after a German court ruling blamed Iran’s top leaders for the 1992 murders of Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. Italy and all other European Union countries except Greece withdrew their ambassadors from Iran after the ruling.
Neither the Vatican nor the Interior Ministry expressed alarm. Spokesmen for both said no extra security measures were in place.
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