Reply #2: Thanks!

[paulthompson]

On a point of clarification:

"Even Great Britain was a target but something went wrong and they had to abort."

Is that something that was said BEFORE 9/11, or is this something the priest is speculating after 9/11? There's a future tense, past tense, then future tense thing going on there.

From the Zenit account, it sounds like he doesn't know about the Britain failure until after 9/11:

The priest said he had no idea where the attacks would take place specifically. The individuals he met -- whose identity and country he did not reveal to the press -- only mentioned the United States and England, and the use of suicide planes.

According to what the priest has learned, the attack on Great Britain failed at the last minute.

http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=9943


Also, do you think you could find that other La Repubblica article somehow? Does the newspaper have a search function or something?