Pope Francis leads mass to over 80,000 in Jakarta, Indonesia during Asia-Pacific tour
Suspects linked to ISIS plotted to attack Pope Francis during his trip to Indonesia — but were thwarted by their own online boasts, authorities say.
At least some of the plotters had “pledged allegiance to ISIS,” an unnamed source told the Straits Times. One of them was in the same ISIS-aligned terror cell that stabbed Indonesia’s chief security minister in 2019.
“We have a mechanism to monitor and filter. We had tip-off information from members of the public,” said Col. Aswin Siregar of the national police anti-terror unit Detachment 88. The previous year, another attack against Christians on the island of Sulawesi left four people dead, including two who were beheaded.
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