The Italians did those jihadis a favor.

(Via Hot Air) Arresting them, that is.

Islamic extremists suspected in a bomb attack in a Pakistani market that killed more than 100 people had also planned an attack against the Vatican in 2010 that was never carried out, an Italian prosecutor said Friday.

Wiretaps collected as part of an investigation into an Islamic terror network operating in Italy gave “signals of some preparation for a possible attack” at the Vatican, prosecutor Mauro Mura told a news conference in Cagliari, Sardinia. That included the arrival of a suicide bomber in Rome. He eventually left Italy, Mura said, although it wasn’t clear why.

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Turks get upset because Pope Francis called the Armenian Genocide a genocide.

Well ain’t that a God-damned shame:

What’s Turkish for “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out the door?” …Or perhaps Italian would make more sense, in this context. Or maybe just liturgical Latin.

Update on the Vatican Ambassadorship.

The Vatican is denying reports that it has formally blocked any appointments for US ambassador (via Don Surber, and previously mentioned here).  Guess that means that everybody in the Online Left who’s spent the last few days self-righteously whining about why we extend diplomatic relations to that particular country can stop pretending that they actually care.

Oh, I’m sorry: did I just type that out?  Guess that I did; and, shoot, my backspace key is inexplicably busted.  Looks like I’m stuck leaving it in.

Crossposted to RedState.