Boy Scout foils attack on Maldives president
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The president of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has escaped an assassination attempt, a presidential spokesman said.
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MILITANTS behind the deadly bombing of the Australian Embassy here plotted another major attack two months earlier. Their targets: Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Australia&#39;s Justice Minister Chris Ellison and the region&#39;s top cops.
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Gunmen fired mortars at the Somali president's house on Sunday, hours after the country's new prime minister arrived in Mogadishu for the first time since he was sworn in last November, a presidential aide said.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 22. - Pakistan today said it has foiled attempts by Al-Qaida operatives to kill top leaders and bomb the Presidential palace, parliament building, the army headquarters and US embassy here by arresting nine militants.
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Saudi security sources say police in Riyadh have foiled two suicide attacks on government facilities. In the first incident, authorities say an attacker tried to drive his car into the Interior Ministry, but
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Photos were published yesterday in newspapers across Pakistan of six terror suspects, including a senior Al Qaeda operative, the government says were behind attempts to assassinate the nation's president.
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Afghan troops have foiled an attempt to blow up a fuel truck in the city of Kandahar in what the governor says could have been a &quot;catastrophic&quot; attack to disrupt a landmark election.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania - Authorities said on Saturday they arrested the alleged ringleader of a string of foiled coup and assassination attempts against Mauritania&#39;s leaders.
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The man who set himself on fire yesterday in front of the White House claims to be an FBI informant. 52 year-old Mahamed Alanssi, of Falls Church, Virginia, notified the Washington Post newspaper of his plans beforehand.
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A suicide car bomber targeted the  headquarters of Iraq's main Shi'ite Muslim political party on  Monday in what its leader called an assassination attempt less  than five weeks before historic elections.
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan  - Pakistani security agents have arrested a youth who said he had been trained as a suicide bomber to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto had other militants failed to kill her, in the first arrests in the case, a security official said.
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BERLIN - A bid by extremists to assassinate Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Friday was apparently foiled after police arrested three suspected Iraqi terrorists, German Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said on Friday.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE THUNDER, Afghanistan -- The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.
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Azerbaijan's government says it has foiled a plot to carry out a terror attack against local and foreign officials.
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Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf escaped unharmed on Sunday when suspected Islamist insurgents hit his presidential compound in Mogadishu with mortar bombs for a second day, one of his aides said.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Sept. 18 -- Somalia's interim president narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Monday when a suicide car bomber struck outside the parliament building, officials said. The blast and a subsequent gun battle left 11 people dead, including the president's brother.
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For the Boy Scout who dreams of becoming a policeman, grabbing the knife of a would-be assassin lunging for the president of the Maldives was a crash course in cop-like heroics