So, six people were arrested in an alleged plot to kill the Pope while he's in the UK. Why would they do that? The only identifying factors in the first four paragraphs are the ages of the men arrested -- which, at 26 to 50, is not very helpful in understanding the motivation of the plot. In the fifth paragraph, however, the AP report comes around to mentioning that the Pope's visit has sparked tensions in the "officially Protestant" country. So... some kind of Orangemen plot, then? But maybe not, since the paragraph also talks about the anger that Catholics feel over the Vatican's handling of the sexually abusive clergymen. Victims seeking revenge, perhaps? Seven paragraphs down, we have police refusing to comment on reports that the men were Algerian. In the eighth paragraph, we find out the "reports" come from an eyewitness who knew the men. An alternative lead sentence would have said something like: "Six men, reportedly Algerian, were arrested today in an alleged plot to kill the Pope." We would have gotten a very different article, though, with less musing on the 'tensions' of Christians toward the Catholic leader. But perhaps these were Catholic Algerians, outraged over the treatment of English children in the days before the Vatican was ready to admit the problem in its clergy.
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