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Richard Reid attempted to detonate explosives in his shoe on a flight from Paris to Miami.
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Federal Officials capture Jose Padilla and his two accomplices who were believed to be taking part in an al-Qaeda “dirty bomb” plot on the U.S.
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Somali immigrant Nuradin M. Abdi pleaded guilty to plotting to blow up the Columbus shopping mall and was arrested.
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2 men were arrested for plotting to bomb a subway station near Madison Square Garden where the Republican National Convention would be held that day.
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FBI arrests Michael C. Reynolds for plotting to bomb a Wyoming Natural Gas Refinery and a transcontinental pipeline which ran from the Gulf Coast to New Jersey. He was arrested while trying to pick up the $40,000 owed to him for planning the attack. His purported contact, Shannen Rossmiller, was a Montana judge who was working with the FBI.
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Seven men were arrested in a plot to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago, Illinois. The men sought to work with al-Qaeda but ended up working with an FBI informant which later lead to their arrest.
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Six men are arrested in a plot to attack a U.S. Army Base in New Jersey. All six were arrested as a result of a sixteen month operation performed by the FBI
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Christopher Paul, a US citizen who had ties to terrorists groups in Germany and al-Qeada was arrested for conspiring to use a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
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Najibullah Zazi and others are arrested arrested for conspiring to blow up a New York City Subway with TATP Bombs, bombs similar to the Shoe Bomb in 2001 and the 2005 London subway bombings.
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Somali-American is arrested after an FBI operation. He planned to detonate a car bomb planted in a van in Pioneer Courthouse Square.
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Inspired by Anwar al-Awlaki, Jose Pimental intended to bomb several targets in New York City and was arrested.
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A man who came to the United States on a student visa planned to bomb the Federal Reserve Building in New York.