He planted a timer bomb in his pregnant Irish fiancee's hand luggage, without her knowledge, but the explosives were detected and the plot was foiled.
The plot was foiled early on because the alleged bomber was a mole for a foreign intelligence service working against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to officials familiar with the case.
Less than a year after the Zazi plot was foiled, on May 1, 2010, Pakistani Taliban recruit Faisal Shahzad tried and failed to detonate a bomb consisting of propane, gasoline and fireworks in an SUV parked in Times Square.
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At the time of publication, the administration itself was preparing to announce that the bomb plot had been foiled, he said.
Aziz concedes this view was reinforced just a few months ago, in the wake of the foiled plot to blow up airplanes.
We also got details of a foiled plot that allegedly involved anthrax.
The seizure was part of an investigation into who leaked information to AP reporters for a May 7, 2012, story that disclosed details of a foiled plot in Yemen to bomb a U.S.-bound airliner, around the anniversary of the May 2, 2011, killing of Osama bin Laden.
The United States and the United Kingdom historically steadfast allies in earlier world conflicts together with our other democratic allies, today face the global threat posed by Islamofascism on two fronts, both from outside forces and homegrown terror, as we were once again starkly reminded in the foiled plot to bring down ten airliners bound for the United States from Heathrow in August of this year.
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Don't expect Thursday's foiled terror plot in London to ground the U.S. government's Ez-pass style security program for frequent travelers.
Curbs were imposed in August 2006 after police said they had foiled a plot to bring down as many as 10 planes.
America also fingered him for another (foiled) plot, to bomb a string of airports and aircraft on the eve of the millennium.
Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.
Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.
Then on 6 May, US officials said they had and their allies had foiled a plot to bomb a US plane, involving a device that bore the "hallmarks" of the underwear bomb carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009.
But the fact remains that there are people they're still looking for and if the plot had been entirely foiled, then there wouldn't have been a need for this extraordinary security precaution we are seeing on both sides of the Atlantic.
The documents did not say whether Abassi knew of the foiled Canadian rail plot.
Last September German police foiled an alleged plot to bomb several places that attracted American visitors.
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In 2008, Turkish police said they had foiled a bomb plot by DHKP-C against some U.S. companies in Turkey.
Jet charter bookings in the U.K. shot up 40% for the week following the foiled airliner bomb plot in London.
British police say they foiled a terrorist plot to bomb as many as ten airliners headed for the United States.
Last December, Spanish police said they had foiled an ETA plot to blow up a train in a Madrid station.
Along those lines, Pakistani officials on Friday announced that they had foiled a terror plot that included bomb-laden vehicles and a number of potential suicide attackers.
For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials.
As the Terrorist Asset-Freezing etc Bill reached the Commons on 15 November 2010, Financial Secretary Mark Hoban said relatively small sums were needed for acts such as the 7 July attacks or the foiled air cargo bomb plot.
AQAP, as the group is known, was behind the failed 2009 Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt and the foiled 2010 air-cargo plot.
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Hours before announcing the death of the leader, Mr Maduro said live on state television that a plot to "destabilise Venezuela" had been foiled.
He became interested in the sites when a Columbine-like shooting plot at Riverton High School in Kansas was foiled in April of last year, after police found the shooters' plans on their MySpace page.
There are reports that an al-Qaeda plot to blow up warships in the Straits of Gibraltar was foiled after information was obtained from a detainee in Guantanamo Bay.
In 2006, Canadian police foiled the so-called Toronto 18 home grown plot to set off bombs outside Toronto's Stock Exchange, a building housing Canada's spy agency and a military base.
The court hearing came a day after President Obama released a report on the incident that said officials had "sufficient information" to have foiled the failed attack that but a variety of errors kept investigators from uncovering the plot.
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