An Italian prosecutor has revealed that Islamic extremists, who are suspected of conducting a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed 100 people, had also plotted an attack against the Vatican in 2010 but it was never executed.
The news of the planned attack came as police said they arrested nine suspected extremists accused of plotting terror in Pakistan aimed at stopping that government’s actions against the Taliban.
The attackers were warned off by their associates in Italy when police started executing arrest warrants in the case.
Arrest warrants were executed against 20 suspects.
