Failed terrorism plots

{{excerpt|2001 shoe bomb attempt}}

{{Main|Wood Green ricin plot}}

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The Tyler poison gas plot was a domestic terrorism plot in Tyler, Texas, United States. It was thwarted in April 2003 with the arrest of William J. Krar, Judith Bruey (Krar's common-law wife) and Edward Feltus and the seizure of a cyanide gas bomb along with a large arsenal that included at least 100 other conventional bombs, machine guns, an assault rifle, an unregistered silencer, and 500,000 rounds of ammunition.{{Cite news| url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm| title=WMD Plot Uncovered In East Texas| date=November 26, 2003| first=Robert| last=Riggs| access-date=September 26, 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201181446/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article5350.htm| archive-date=February 1, 2019| url-status=dead}} The chemical stockpile seized included sodium cyanide, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid and acetic acid.

The three individuals were linked to white supremacist and anti-government groups. Feltus was a member of the New Jersey Militia while Krar was suspected of making his living traveling across the country selling bomb components and other weapons to violent underground anti-government groups. Federal authorities had been watching Krar since at least 1995 when ATF agents investigated a possible plot to bomb government buildings, but he was not charged at the time. Since the September 11 attacks, their attention was focused on middle-eastern terrorist activities and were only alerted to Krar's recent activities by accident when he mailed Feltus a package of counterfeit birth certificates from North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and United Nations Multinational Force and Defense Intelligence Agency IDs. The package was mistakenly delivered to a Staten Island man who alerted police.

On May 4, 2004, Krar was sentenced to 135 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to building and possessing chemical weapons. Ms. Bruey was sentenced to 57 months after pleading to "conspiracy to possess illegal weapons".{{Cite news| url=http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txe/news_release/news/krar_bruey_rivers.pdf| archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20100530191727/http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txe/news_release/news/krar_bruey_rivers.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2010-05-30| title=US DOJ: PRISON SENTENCE FOR POSSESSING CHEMICAL WEAPONS| date=May 4, 2004| access-date=2010-09-26}}

the National Security Agency (NSA) used Internet surveillance to uncover an extremist in Yemen who was in contact with an operative in the United States. Sean Joyce, the deputy director of the FBI, revealed that intelligence agents detected “nascent plotting” to bomb the exchange.{{Cite web |last=News |first=Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC |date=2013-06-18 |title=Plot to Bomb NYSE Foiled by Surveillance Program: FBI |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2013/06/18/plot-to-bomb-nyse-foiled-by-surveillance-program-fbi.html |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=CNBC}}

{{Main|2005 Sydney terrorism plot}}

Five men were arrested in late 2005 in Sydney, Australia and charged over a terrorism-plot they planned between July 2004 and November 2005. Each pleaded not guilty to the charges.{{Cite news|url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=664371|title=Terror accused 'desensitised' themselves|date=2008-11-12|accessdate=2009-10-17|publisher=Nine News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081119185255/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=664371|archive-date=2008-11-19|url-status=dead}} Police searches of their homes discovered instructions on bomb-making, 28,000 rounds of ammunition (including 11,000 rounds of 7.62×39mm), 12 rifles, militant Islamic literature, and footage of Islamic beheadings as well as footage of the aircraft crashing into the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. According to the prosecution, the men purchased explosive chemicals and guns between July 2004 and November 2005.{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-11-11-796966386_x.htm|title=Terror trial begins in Australia|work=USA Today|accessdate=2009-10-17 | date=2008-11-11}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/anger-venom-and-hatred/story-e6frg6z6-1225830679024|title=Anger, venom and hatred |work=The Australian|accessdate=2010-02-17|first=Sally|last=Neighbour|date=16 February 2010}}

The five: Khaled Cheikho, Moustafa Cheikho, Mohamed Ali Elomar, Abdul Rakib Hasan, and Mohammed Omar Jamal, were found guilty on 16 October 2009 and were jailed on 15 February 2010 for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years.{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61E0W020100215|title=Five Australians jailed for jihad plot|accessdate=2010-02-15|date=2010-02-15|first=Michael|last=Perry | work=Reuters}} The trial was one of Australia's longest and involved approximately 300 witnesses and 3,000 exhibits, including 18 hours of telephone intercepts and 30 days of surveillance tapes, which has overtaken the record previously held by the liquidation of the Bell Group.{{Cite news| title = Sydney jihadists guilty of terrorism plot | url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/16/2716000.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091017131442/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/10/16/2716000.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = October 17, 2009 | date = 2009-10-16| accessdate = 2009-10-16 | work =ABC News }}

In December 2014 they lost an appeal in the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal against their conviction and sentences.{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/terrorist-conspiracy-five-sydney-cell-members-lose-conviction-sentencing-appeals-20141211-125lho.html |title=Terrorist conspiracy: five Sydney cell members lose conviction, sentencing appeals |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |author1=Olding, Rachel |author2=Hall, Louise |date=12 December 2014 |access-date=10 August 2024}}

• 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot
• 2006 Ontario terrorism plot

==2007==

• 2007 Glasgow Airport attack

• 2009 Bronx terrorism plot

{{Main|Raleigh jihad group}}

Seven men were arrested on July 27, 2009 near Raleigh, North Carolina on charges of participating in a conspiracy to commit "violent jihad" outside the United States. An eighth man named in the indictment, believed to be in Pakistan, has not been arrested.{{Cite news|first= Mike |last= Ahlers |author-link= Mike Ahlers |title= No bail for 'jihad' suspects despite judge's skepticism |url= http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/05/nc.terror.suspects/|publisher= CNN|date= 5 August 2009|accessdate= 5 August 2009 }} The alleged leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, was accused of recruiting the other seven men, including two of his sons, to take part in a conspiracy “to advance violent jihad, including supporting and participating in terrorist activities abroad and committing acts of murder, kidnapping or maiming persons abroad.”{{cite news|first= Robert |last= Mackey|author-link= Robert Mackey|title= Americans Arrested for Plotting 'Violent Jihad' Abroad |url= http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/americans-arrested-for-plotting-violent-jihad-abroad/|newspaper= New York Times|date= 28 July 2009|accessdate=28 July 2009 }}

At their detention hearings, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Webb ruled that all were to be held without bond until trial.{{Cite news|first= Mike|last= Baker|author-link= Mike Baker (journalist)|title= 7 NC men charged as international "jihad" group |url= https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gHM9ORF1GLmgcoCTTD3i3bLRBk-wD99SSV2O0|agency= A.P.|date= 5 August 2009|accessdate= 14 August 2009 }}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{dead link|date=October 2013}}

On 25 August 2010, seven individuals were arrested in Ottawa and London, Ontario on terrorism-related charges.{{Cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/Eighth+suspect+sought+alleged+homegrown+terror+plot/3450523/story.html|title=Eighth suspect sought in alleged homegrown terror plot|last=Macleod|first=Ian|author2=Andrew Seymoure|author3=Meghan Hurley|date=27 August 2010|work=National Post|publisher=Postmedia|accessdate=30 August 2010}}{{Dead link|date=March 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It was the culmination of Project Samosa, a year-long probe by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, which identified eight members of a cell targeting government buildings on Parliament Hill.

{{main article|Operation Guava}}

Also known as the "London Stock Exchange bomb plot",{{cite news|url=https://news.sky.com/story/man-arrested-in-stoke-after-review-of-terrorists-on-licence-in-wake-of-london-bridge-attack-11875846|title=Usman Khan's 2012 accomplice bomb plotter arrested after review of terrorists on licence|publisher=Sky News|last1=Chung|first1=Alison|last2=Mercer|first2=David|date=2 December 2019|accessdate=7 October 2020}} nine conspirators were arrested in December 2010 for plotting a terrorist attack;{{cite news |last1=Simon Israel |title=Christmas 'terror plot' targeted London landmarks |url=https://www.channel4.com/news/anti-terror-raids-nine-men-charged |accessdate=3 December 2019 |publisher=Channel 4 |date=27 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191004043431/https://www.channel4.com/news/anti-terror-raids-nine-men-charged |archive-date=4 October 2019}} they all eventually pleaded guilty, and eight were convicted of engaging in preparation for acts of terrorism.{{cite web |title=The Terrorism Acts in 2012: report of the Independent Reviewer |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/243472/9780108512629.pdf |publisher=Government of the United Kingdom |accessdate=1 December 2019 |year=2013 |quote=three men from Stoke (Usman Khan, [...] Following their arrest in December 2010, all nine members of the network pleaded guilty}} One of the convicts, Usman Khan, had his sentence reduced on appeal by Lord Justice Leveson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/uk/why-was-london-bridge-attacker-usman-khan-released/|title=Why was London Bridge attacker Usman Khan released?|agency=Press Association|date=30 November 2019|website=Evening Express|access-date=2 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/11/30/leveson-ruling-opened-door-killers-early-release/|title=Leveson ruling opened the door to killer's early release|first=Steve|last=Bird|date=30 November 2019|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=2 December 2019}} He became Cambridge University's "poster boy for Britain's anti-radicalisation strategy", but he went on to perpetrate the 2019 London Bridge stabbing.{{cite news |last1=Tom Harper |last2=Jon Ungoed-Thomas |last3=Caroline Wheeler |title=London Bridge attack: poster boy for rehabilitation. And killer |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/london-bridge-attack-poster-boy-for-rehabilitation-and-killer-wx9blb6n6 |access-date=3 December 2019 |work=The Times |date=1 December 2019|quote="The poster boy for Britain's anti-radicalisation strategy turned up at the event with a hoax explosive device strapped to his chest"}}{{cite news |last1=Hayley Dixon |last2=Victoria Ward |last3=Greg Wilford |title=London bridge attacker was poster boy for rehab scheme he targeted |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/01/london-bridge-attacker-poster-boy-rehab-scheme-targeted/ |accessdate=1 December 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=1 December 2019 |quote=Learning Together, a Cambridge University programme, worked with Usman Khan in prison and after his release and used him as a case study to show how they helped prisoners}}

{{main article|Brexit Day bomb plot}}

On 31 January 2020, the day the United Kingdom was to withdraw from the European Union, the Police Service of Northern Ireland received two anonymous tips that a bomb inside a lorry would be on a ferry heading from Belfast Harbour to Cainryan, Scotland.{{Cite web |url=https://news.sky.com/story/police-investigate-brexit-day-plot-to-bomb-irish-sea-ferry-11927745 |title=Police investigate Brexit Day plot to bomb Irish Sea ferry |website=Sky News |language=en |access-date=2020-02-10}} While the explosive device was not found at the harbour, or detonated, it would be found on 5 February inside a lorry on the Silverwood Industrial Estate in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland after a search of 400 lorries; it was then disarmed by a bomb disposal team. While the perpetrator(s) remain unknown, the PSNI suspects the involvement of the Continuity Irish Republican Army, which would make the bombing part of the Dissident Irish Republican campaign.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51401435 |title=Police say CIRA bomb was for 'Brexit day' attack |date=2020-02-06 |website=BBC News |language=en-GB |access-date=2020-02-10}}

• 2024 Vienna terrorism plot

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