Plane Terror Plot

French intelligence officers foiled a terror plot inspired by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City, France Interior Ministry said on Thursday

Australian authorities say they have prevented 13 terror attacks on home soil in the past few years, including an alleged plot in July to bring down a plane using poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer.

One of four men held in Australia over an alleged plot to blow up a plane has been released without charge, police said Wednesday, with his lawyer calling it "a tough few days".

Four men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports said Monday, with Australian officials calling preparations "advanced".

Al Qaeda is plotting a terrorist attack on a US airliner, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing intelligence sources.

Al Qaeda's slain leader Osama bin Laden had planned to follow up the September 11 attacks with shoe bombers to blow up American passenger planes, which would have brought the American economy to its knees, a British man convicted on terrorism charges testified in a trial in New York.

The following is a transcript, provided by the White House, of President Obama's remarks on Friday about the suspicious packages originating in Yemen and bound for the United States:Good afternoon, everybody. I want to briefly update the American people on a credible terrorist threat against our country, and the actions that we're taking with our f...

Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

Two United States residents of Yemeni descent who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam on Sunday night were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot.But American law enforcement officials cautioned on Monday night that the men had not been charged with...

US President Barack Obama acknowledged on Friday that there are shortcomings in intelligence agencies due to which his administration failed to unearth the Al Qaida plot to blow up a US plane on December 25.

French intelligence officers foiled a terror plot inspired by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City, France Interior Ministry said on Thursday

Australian authorities say they have prevented 13 terror attacks on home soil in the past few years, including an alleged plot in July to bring down a plane using poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer.

One of four men held in Australia over an alleged plot to blow up a plane has been released without charge, police said Wednesday, with his lawyer calling it "a tough few days".

Four men accused of plotting to bring down a plane planned to use poisonous gas or a crude bomb disguised as a meat mincer, reports said Monday, with Australian officials calling preparations "advanced".

Al Qaeda is plotting a terrorist attack on a US airliner, Britain's Sunday Times newspaper reported, citing intelligence sources.

Al Qaeda's slain leader Osama bin Laden had planned to follow up the September 11 attacks with shoe bombers to blow up American passenger planes, which would have brought the American economy to its knees, a British man convicted on terrorism charges testified in a trial in New York.

The following is a transcript, provided by the White House, of President Obama's remarks on Friday about the suspicious packages originating in Yemen and bound for the United States:Good afternoon, everybody. I want to briefly update the American people on a credible terrorist threat against our country, and the actions that we're taking with our f...

Not long ago, most Americans had scarcely heard of Yemen, the arid, Texas-size country in the southern corner of the Arabian peninsula. But on Friday, as news emerged of a plot to send explosives in courier packages from Yemen to synagogues in Chicago, the world's attention was focused once again on the threats brewing in Yemen's lawless, strife-to...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

The Nigerian man, charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day, has fired his lawyers saying they would be biased and opted torepresent himself.Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who is arraigned on six charges including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, indicated that he may plead guilty to some of the charges agains...

Two United States residents of Yemeni descent who flew from Chicago to Amsterdam on Sunday night were detained by the Dutch police after landing on Monday in a bizarre episode that American officials feared might be a dry run for a terrorist plot.But American law enforcement officials cautioned on Monday night that the men had not been charged with...

US President Barack Obama acknowledged on Friday that there are shortcomings in intelligence agencies due to which his administration failed to unearth the Al Qaida plot to blow up a US plane on December 25.