The terrorist group calling itself the Islamic State wants to assassinate the Pope, Iraq’s ambassador to the Vatican claimed today.
In a chilling new development, Habeeb Al Sadr warned that Pope Francis could be on IS’ list of targets, ahead of his visit to Albania this weekend and Turkey in November.
This will be the pontiff’s first visit to a Muslim-majority country.
Mr Al Sadr told Italian newspaper La Nazione: “What has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear – they want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible.
“I believe they could try to kill him during one of his overseas trips or even in Rome.
“There are members of Isil who are not Arabs but Canadian, American, French, British, also Italians.
“Isil could engage any of these to commit a terrorist attack in Europe.”
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