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1 By their timely warning I was enabled to foil a plot to make me appear to the public as an enemy of the Gods.
2 British police said they had foiled a plot to blow up aircraft mid-flight between Britain and the United States.
3 More now on the double agent who infiltrated al-Qaeda and successfully foiled a plot to blow up an American-bound airliner.
4 Police said they had foiled a plot by militants to launch a suicide mini-bus attack on the president near his residence.
5 Separately, Yemeni police said they foiled a plot to carry out a suicide bombing inside a U.S. language institute in Sanaa.
6 US police believe they have foiled a plot to carry out a gun attack on school pupils by three New Jersey teenagers.
7 US authorities announced last week they had foiled a plot by two men linked to Iran's security agencies to assassinate Adel al-Jubeir.
8 Police in the US say they have foiled a plot by two students to go on a killing spree in their school today.
9 But within minutes, he was drawn back into action by the government, which needed help in foiling a plot to murder a Middle Eastern peace-keeper.
10 An additional 15 years were added to his sentence in 1988 after law enforcement foiled a plot to break him out of prison.
11 In 2005, police foiled a plot to snatch Letterman's then 16-month-old son Harry from his 2,700-acre Montana ranch and hold him for a $5m ransom.
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