British intelligence thwarted two terrorist plots to murder Pope Francis during his 2021 visit to Iraq, a new book has revealed.
Spies tipped off the Vatican's security detail that a female suicide bomber had been dispatched to the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to coincide with the Pontiff’s historic visit to the city.
They learned too that terrorists also planned to propel a speeding truck loaded with explosives into the Vatican entourage with the aim of assassinating the Pope.
The revelations come in a new book called Hope: The Autobiography, a book by Francis co-authored by Carlo Musso, excerpts of which have appeared in Corriere della Sera, the Italian daily newspaper.
