Al Qaeda Terror Plot

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  15 Years After 9/11, Terror Threat Now 'Home-Grown'

  Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, US anti-terror officials say the country is hardened against such well-developed plots but remains as vulnerable as ever to small and especially home-grown attacks.

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  Britain's MI5 Chief Warns Al Qaeda in Syria Planning Mass Attacks

  Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.

• Heathrow Airport on high alert over Al Qaeda terror threat: report

  UK's busiest airport Heathrow has been put on high terror alert after "credible" intelligence emerged that Al Qaeda is plotting attacks, including strike by women suicide bombers with explosives concealed in breast implants, a media report said today.

• Terrorists turn to online chat rooms to evade US intelligence

  Al Qaeda fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if vague plot that US officials say closed 19 diplomatic posts across Africa and the Middle East for more than a week.

• Yemen terror boss left blueprint for waging jihad

  A year before he was caught on an intercept discussing the terror plot that prompted this week's sweeping closure of US embassies abroad, Al Qaeda's top operative in Yemen laid out his blueprint for how to wage jihad in letters sent to a fellow terrorist.

• Iran rejects Al Qaeda link alleged by Canada as 'ridiculous'

  Iran today rejected as "ridiculous" a claim by Ottawa that two foreigners arrested in connection with a plot to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area were backed by Tehran-supported Al Qaeda.

• Four UK men jailed for toy-car terror plot

  The terror plot involved targeting British reserve troops using a toy-car packed with explosives.

• Turkey police foils Al-Qaeda plot against US embassy: report

  Turkish police have uncovered and foiled an alleged plot by Al-Qaeda to bomb the US embassy in Ankara, as well as a synagogue and other targets in Istanbul, Turkish media reported on Friday.

• Three British men go on trial over alleged terror plot

  Three British Muslim men went on trial in London on Monday, accused of plotting a bombing campaign that prosecutors say could have been deadlier than the 2005 London transit attacks.

• Jordan foils Al Qaeda-linked 'terror plot': Reports

  Jordan has foiled a "terrorist plot" and arrested 11 Al Qaeda suspects who planned to carry out suicide attacks against shopping malls and diplomats, Petra news agency reported on Sunday.

• Pakistan arrests seven in terror plots: Police

  Pakistani police said on Friday that seven suspects from a feared Al Qaeda-linked group had been arrested for allegedly plotting to attack school buses and prisons in Karachi.

• Saudi Arabia foils 'terror' plot, busts two cells: ministry

  Saudi authorities today announced they had foiled a "terror" plot by elements suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, mostly Yemenis, and busted two extremist cells in Riyadh and Jeddah.

• UK terror plot foiled after husband, wife fall out

  Prosecutors have told a UK court that a planned attack by a husband-and-team pair of would-be terrorists fell apart after the couple became embroiled in a domestic dispute.

• Al Qaeda plotting to bomb US plane: Report

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

• Osama planned for shoe bombers to follow up on 9/11, says terror convict

  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.