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Foiled terrorist plots, according to the Director of National Intelligence and President Bush's speech on Wednesday: - In 2002, officials disrupted a plot by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to crash hijacked airplanes into targets on the U.S. West Coast. -In mid-2004, officials discovered a plan to bomb urban targets in the United Kingdom. -Terrorists involved in a well-advanced plot to attack targets in Karachi, Pakistan, were detained in the spring of 2003. -A plan to use hijacked commercial airplanes to attack London's Heathrow Airport was disrupted in 2003. -A plot to attack...

The White House has given details of 10 major terror plots that President Bush says have been foiled by the US and its allies since the 11 September attacks. Mr Bush cited the disrupted plans in a speech, designed to boost support for the so-called war on terror. They include a plot to use hijacked aircraft to hit the US East and West coasts and to attack Heathrow Airport. But the sketchy details provided by the White House make it hard to assess how serious or advanced the plans were. Most of the plots have been previously reported in some...