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# Plot

Last year
2022
# Podcast
The Explainer: What do we know about an alleged coup plot in Germany?
Listen to hear Prof Peter Neumann, a German journalist and academic, explain the background and context to the story.
All time
# Special Criminal Court
Man who booked flights for hitman in Kinahan Cartel's bid to murder 'Mago' Gately is jailed
James Mago Gately was shot several times in 2017.
# Texas
Woman charged with plot to assassinate Obama with homemade bomb was caught by cat hair
Julia Poff is charged with sending three devices in the post, one to the then US President.
# islamic state
Undercover FBI agent helped foil bomb plot in Times Square
The men in question also allegedly planned to target concerts in New York.
# Sydney
Terror plot to bring down Australian plane may have involved 'bomb disguised as meat mincer'
Four men were arrested in connection with the alleged plot in Sydney on Saturday.
# Day of the Jackal
Man charged for threatening to kill Emmanuel Macron
The 23-year-old also allegedly said he wanted to attack “Muslims, Jews, blacks, homosexuals”.
# Melbourne
"Significant" Isis-inspired terror plot for Christmas Day foiled in Australia
The plot was expected to target one of Melbourne’s best-known intersections on Christmas Day.
# Germany
Two Algerian men arrested over suspected Islamic State plot in Berlin
They are suspected of having links to the jihadist group.
# Plot
London men charged with plotting terrorism and taking oath of Islamic State group
Four men face terrorist charges and a fifth faces firearms charges.
# Terrorism
Islamic State plot to attack US and Paris subway systems revealed
He told reporters today that he had been alerted to the plan to target systems in the US and Paris which involved militants from that country who are part of IS.
# 20 july plot
Last remaining member of Hitler assassination plot dies
Ewald Von Kleist was part of the failed plot by German army officers and members of the resistance to blow up Adolf Hitler in 1944.
# Plot
Plot to kill Gerry Adams touched upon in Finucane report
Adams said the revelation by Desmond de Silva, who wrote the report, comes as no surprise.
# Ohio
Teen sentenced to life over Craigslist plot
Brogan Rafferty, 17, was involved in a deadly plot to lure men desperate for work to their death.
# Federal Reserve
Family defend Bangladeshi man arrested for NY bomb plot
The suspect’s father said he spent all of his savings to send him to America to study so he would have a better chance at life.
# Plot
'Undetectable' underwear bomb plot thwarted says CIA
The device was an upgrade of the Christmas 2009 underwear bomb plot but the would-be bomber had not yet picked a target or bought an airline ticket.
# Terrorism
4 men admit al-Qaida inspired plot to blow up London Stock Exchange
Prosecutors say the men had discussed a “Mumbai-style” atrocity and had planned to send mail bombs to various targets.
# DSK
Watch: leaked Strauss-Kahn surveillance footage adds to mystery
The footage has been aired less than fortnight after suggestions that the former head of the IMF was the target of a political plot when he was accused of sexual assault in a New York hotel in May.
# Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean Prime Minister divorces wife after 12 days
He blamed stories that suggested he had married Locadia Karimatsenga because she was pregnant with twins – and he said there was “now an underhand and active political hand” damaging his reputation.
# Turkey
Journalists on trial over Turkish coup plot
13 people – including 10 journalists – went on trial today accused of being involved in a plot to topple Turkey’s Islamic-rooted government.
# US
Worldwide travel alert issued for US citizens after alleged plot
American citizens have warned about possible anti-US attacks – after the Obama administration accused Iran of hiring a Mexican drug cartel to assassinate a Saudi diplomat.