Author Topic: Top 5 failed Terror Attacks (Read 2640 times)

SonnenKinder · « **on:** May 18, 2010, 08:21:29 PM »

2005 Sydney terrorism plot

The 2005 Sydney terrorism plot concerned a group of five men arrested in 2005 on charges of planning an act of terrorism targeting Sydney, Australia’s most populous city and the capital of New South Wales. The group was found guilty on 16 October 2009 and was sentenced on 15 February 2010 for terms up to 28 years.

Financial buildings plot 2004

The 2004 financial buildings plot was a failed terror plot planned by Al-Qaeda, eight suspects were arrested related to this case, and the trail of the seven guilty persons was started in April 2007, One of the men, Dhiren Barot, pleaded guilty early on and was sentenced to 40 years in jail.

Christmas day Terror plot 2009

Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab allegedly tried to ignite a device attached to his body as the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam began its final descent in to the American city on Christmas Day, It later emerged the Nigerian was on a US watch list of terror suspects but was not on a “no-fly” list and had a visa to enter the country.

Toronto bomb plot 1991

In 1991,Toronto bomb was revealed, when Canadian authorities arrested Four men trying to cross the Peace Bridge into the United States in October 1991. Customs officials searched their Buick and Chevrolet Suburban and found “detailed plans to bomb a York Region Hindu temple and an Indian theater in Toronto”, including aerial photographs and blueprints of the Vishnu Mandir Temple and India Centre cinema; According to investigation those four men were of Trinidadian and Dominican ethnicity having alleged links with Jamaat ul-Fuqra based in United States.

Hudson river bomb Plot

On July 7, 2006, the FBI announced that they had foiled a plot that was in its “talking phase” by foreign militants to detonate explosives in tunnels connecting New Jersey with Manhattan and drown the New York financial district with a torrent of water. This was unfeasible because the tunnel is embedded in bedrock, and the target is above sea level.

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