Threat to Vatican in Arabic fax is investigated

Well isn't this just special? I don't think this is a place al-Qaida wants to go. It would make me dig out my shield with a red cross painted on it.

The Italian authorities are investigating a fax, allegedly signed by al-Qaida, which makes veiled threats against the Vatican.

The three-page document, written in Arabic, accuses the Vatican of supporting "the capitalist countries" who joined the war in Iraq and justifies terror attacks in Britain and Spain as "self defence against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan".