U.S. embassy attack foiled
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Four men shouting Islamic slogans   tried to blow up the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but   their car bomb failed to explode and Syrian security guards   killed three of them in a shootout. No U.S. diplomats were   hurt.
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BAGHDAD - Citing security concerns, the US Embassy on Thursday banned its employees from using the highway linking the embassy area to the international airport, a 10-mile stretch of road plagued by frequent suicide car-bomb attacks.
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Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, exchanging fire outside the compound's walls with gunmen who shouted "God is great" and tried to storm in with automatic weapons and hand grenades.
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Investigators said Friday that they believed the deadly bombing of the Australian Embassy was carried out by suicide attackers who had eluded a manhunt after fellow militants were captured during raids in July and August.
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Authorities in Britain have said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to wreak &quot;mass murder&quot; with the simultaneous mid-air bombings of planes to the United States, and ordered a maximum security alert that snarled air traffic around the world.
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A group of militant Islamists planned to attack the U.S. Embassy and other government buildings in Azerbaijan with stolen military grenades and assault rifles but were thwarted by security forces, officials said Monday.
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Islamic militants attempted to storm the embassy in a brazen attack using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives.
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The U.S. embassy in The Hague and  several restaurants in the area were evacuated on Friday due to  a bomb threat that turned out to be a false alarm, a U.S.  official said.
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Colombian police foiled a plot by leftist rebels to attack U.S. military advisers at a popular vacation resort near the capital, a government official and the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - While the Justice Department has walked away in embarrassment from a major terror conviction in Detroit, the top FBI official there is insisting his agency likely thwarted a terrorist attack by arresting the four men who were prosecuted.   "You should be proud of the excellent investigative work conducted by the JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force) in Detroit, and everyone should recognize that their efforts may have prevented another attack," Special Agent in Charge Daniel Roberts wrote last week in an e-mail to his entire office...
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Italian, Lebanese and Syrian intelligence services have thwarted a planned car bomb attack against the Italian embassy in Beirut, Italy's Defense Minister Antonio Martino said.
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Four armed men attacked the United   States embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but the assault was   repelled and Syrian officials said all diplomats were safe.
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The U.S. Embassy said Thursday that American and other Western installations are at risk of terrorist attack in Nigeria, but officials later played down the warning, saying no specific threat had prompted the announcement.
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Â· Foreign Office among departments hit Â· Military involvement suspected
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Authorities in London thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up an aircraft in mid-flight between Britain and the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, police said Thursday.
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Nine are killed in attack on US consulate by the group, which has been quiet in past 6 months. By Craig Whitlock / Washington Post.
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The US thanks Syria for preventing an attack on its embassy in Damascus in which at least three gunmen die.