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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)

In this police booking photo released by Weber County Sheriff's Dept. showing Dallin Morgan, 18, a high school student who was arrested with another student on Wednesday Jan. 25,2012 on conspiracy charges after authorities uncovered a plot to use explosives during a school assembly. (AP Photo/Weber County Sheriff's Dept.)AP – The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane.


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Muslim man from Kosovo charged in Fla. bomb plot (AP)

This photo provided by the Hillsborough County, Fla., Sheriff's Office shows Sami Osmakac. Osmakac, 25, from the former Yugoslavia, has been charged, federal authorities said Monday, Jan. 9, 2012 with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area including a night club, with a bomb, assault rifle and other explosives. Osmakac made a video of himself explaining his motives for carrying out the planned violent attack. (AP Photo/Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)AP – A Kosovo-born man was charged with plotting to attack Tampa-area nightclubs and a sheriff’s office with bombs and an assault rifle to avenge wrongs done to Muslims, federal authorities said Monday.


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25-year-old man arrested by feds in Fla. bomb plot (AP)

AP – A 25-year-old man from the former Yugoslavia was charged with an alleged plot to attack crowded locations in the Tampa area, including night clubs, with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, federal authorities said Monday.

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Mother of bomb plot suspect apologizes to NYers (AP)

Jose Pimentel, 27, right, represented by attorney Joseph Zablocki, left, is arraigned at Manhattan criminal court, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, in New York. Pimentel, 27, an 'al-Qaida sympathizer' accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home, was charged with criminal possession of explosive devices with the intent to use in a terrorist manner. (AP Photo/Jefferson Siegel, Pool)AP – The mother of a “lone wolf” accused of plotting to attack police stations and post offices with homemade bombs apologized to New Yorkers on Monday, even as questions arose about why federal authorities — who typically handle terrorism cases — declined to get involved in what city officials called a serious threat.


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NYC mayor: Manhattan man arrested in bomb plot (AP)

AP – Mayor Michael Bloomberg says an al-Qaida sympathizer who plotted to bomb police and post offices in New York City has been arrested.

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Obama blames plot to kill Saudi diplomat on Iran (AP)

AP – President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. will make sure that Iranian officials are held accountable for “reckless behavior” in what he said was their direct role in an alleged assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the United States.

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Serious but amateurish: US describes Iranian plot (AP)

FILE - This May 16, 2003 file photo photo shows Adel al-Jubeir, then foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Arabian crown prince, during a news conference at the Saudi Arabian embassy in Washington. The Obama administration on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011 accused agents of the Iranian government of being involved in a plan to assassinate al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States. (AP Photos/Susan Walsh, File)AP – The alleged Iranian plot against the Saudi ambassador to Washington was “amateur hour,” an unusually clumsy operation for Iran’s elite foreign action unit, the Quds Force, U.S. officials said Wednesday as further stranger-than-fiction details emerged of the assassination gone wrong.


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