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==Phase I: Pope assassination plot==
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The first plan was to assassinate [[Pope John Paul II]] when he visited the Philippines during the [[World Youth Day 1995|World Youth Day celebrations]] in January 1995. On January 15 of that year, a suicide bomber would dress up as a priest while John Paul II passed in his motorcade on his way to the San Carlos Seminary in [[Makati]]. The assassin planned to get close to the Pope and detonate the bomb. The planned assassination of the Pope was intended to divert attention from the next phase of the operation. About 20 men had been trained by Yousef to carry out this act prior to January 1995.

The details of Phase I were found in the evidence discovered in the investigation into Unit 603 in the Doña Josefa.