Pope Francis assassination plot in Iraq foiled after British intelligence tip-off - Two suicide bombers had planned to target Pontiff on 2021 visit to Iraq

The suicide bombers targeted Pope Francis during a visit to Iraq, he wrote in his upcoming autobiography called Hope

In an excerpt from his forthcoming autobiography, Francis said two suicide bombers had been planning to attack one of his events in Mosul.

Pope Francis was the target of a horrifying assassination plot during a trip to Iraq, according to revelations in his upcoming autobiography. The attempt on his life was averted following a timely tip-off from British intelligence. The pontiff set off for a three-day visit to Iraq during the coronavirus pandemic in March 2021.

In his upcoming autobiography, the pontiff said that two suicide bombers were killed by Iraqi police before they could carry out their planned attacks.View on euronews

Excerpts from Pope Francis’s upcoming memoir reveal UK surveillance warned of double suicide bomb attack during pontiff’s 2021 visit to Iraq

BRITISH spies foiled an attempted suicide bomb assassination of Pope Francis on his Iraq visit. UK intelligence services tipped off the Iraqi government about plans to kill the Pontiff during the

Iraqi police intercepted and killed at least two would-be suicide bombers who had planned to assassinate Pope Francis during a papal visit in 2021, the pontiff revealed in his upcoming autobiography.