Intelligence and Surprise Attack: Failure and Success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and Beyond

Appendix: Unsuccessful Plots and Attacks against American Targets, 1987–2012

APPENDIX Unsuccessful Plots and Attacks against American Targets, 1987–2012 Radical Domestic Year Name of Plot Domestic Overseas Islamist Extremist Other 2012 Alabama men arrested (Abukhdair, Wilson) • • Florida brothers arrested in New York plot (Qazi) • • California men arrested (Kabir) • • Indonesia embassy plot • • Amman attacks plot • • New York Federal Reserve bomb plot (Nafis) • • Chicago teen arrested (Daoud) • • Fort Stewart, GA, plot • • Al-Qaeda airline plot foiled • • Ohio anarchists arrested • • Minnesota supremacists (Johnson/Thomas) • • US Capitol suicide bombing plot (Khalifi) • • Algerian boat plot against US, European ships • • Tampa bomb plot (Osmakac) • • 2011 New York City bomb plot (Pimentel) • • Georgia militia ricin plot • • Azerbaijan embassy plot • • Washington remote-controlled aircraft plot (Ferdaus) • • Man arrested at JFK International Airport (Hasbajrami) • • Fort Hood shooting plot (Abdo) • • Turkish al-Qaeda plot • • Obama assassination plot (Kodirov) • • Seattle military recruiting center • • Washington shooting suspect arrested (Melaku) • • Iraqi nationals in Kentucky (Alwan, Hammadi) • • New York synagogue plot (Ferhani, Mamdouh) • • Alaska militia plot (Cox) • • 185 186 appendi Radical Domestic Year Name of Plot Domestic Overseas Islamist Extremist Other 2011 Saudi student plot (Aldawsari) • • Pennsylvania man arrested (Begolly) • • Spokane Martin Luther King Jr. parade bomb attempt • • 2010 British bomb plot arrests (US embassy targeted) • • Maryland military recruiting office (Martinez) • • Washington subway plot (Younis/Facebook) • • Portland Christmas tree lighting plot • • Explosive packages intercepted • • Washington subway plot (Ahmed) • • Would-be terrorist arrested (Shehadeh) • • Plot to bomb Wrigley Field in Chicago (Hassoun) • • Chicago man plots to attack US troops (Masri) • • Virginia man attempts to join Shabab (Chesser) • • Alaska couple hit list (Rockwood) • • New Jersey men arrested at JFK Airport (Alessa, Almonte) • • Indonesia plot against foreigners • • Texas man arrested (Bujol) • • Times Square attempted car bombing • • New York men charged with supporting al-Qaeda (Hanafi) • • Connecticut white supremacists (Zrallack) • • Chicago taxi driver arrested (Khan) • • Hutaree militia arrests • • British Airways employee arrested (Karim) • • 2009 Christmas Day airline bombing attempt • • Plot against US embassy in Yemen • • Northern Virginia men arrested in Pakistan • • Boston-area shopping mall plot (Mehanna) • • Brooklyn man arrested in Kosovo (Kaziu) • • Dallas skyscraper plot • • Springfield, IL, courthouse plot • • Najibullah Zazi plot • • Kuwait arrests; plan to attack US Camp Arifjan • • North Carolina arrests (Boyd) • • Tunisian arrests (plan to kill US servicemen) • • Newburgh, NY, bomb plot • • appendi 187 Radical Domestic Year Name of Plot Domestic Overseas Islamist Extremist Other 2008 Dirty bomb plot (Cummings) • • Marine threat against Obama (Brittingham) • • Long Island Rail Road possible plot (Vinas) • • Obama assassination plot (Tennessee) • • Attack on US consulate in Istanbul • • Yemen mortar attack on housing complex (April) • • Yemen embassy mortar attack (March) • • Manila embassy plot • • 2007 Ramstein Air Base plot • • Goose Creek, SC, arrests (Ahmed Mohamed) • • JFK Airport plot • • Arms dealer Drug Enforcement Administration sting (Kassar) • • Fort Dix plot • • Casablanca consulate bombing • • Christopher Paul (Ohio man conspiring with al-Qaeda) • • Ex-US sailor attack plot (Abujihaad; Paul R. Hall) • • Al-Qaeda student visa plot • • Tunis embassy targeted • • 2006 Rockford shopping mall (Derrick Shareef) • • Jordan plot against President Bush • • Houston Taliban plot • • Oslo men plotted against US and Israeli embassies • • British airplane plot (‘‘liquid bomb’’ plot) • • New York tunnels plot (Hammoud) • • Miami / Sears Tower • • Amman airport attack plot • • Atlanta casing plot (Ahmed, Sadequee) • • SUV attack at University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill • • Toledo, OH, conspiracy (Amawi, El-Hindi) • • 2005 Gas refineries (Michael C. Reynolds) • • American tourists in Jordan (cyanide plot) • • Rocket attack on navy ships in Jordan • • Los Angeles prison plot (JIS; Kevin James) • • Would-be ricin maker arrested (Hughes) • • Lodi, CA, plot • • Neo-Nazi arrests (Carafa) • • Support to al-Qaeda (Shah and Sabir) • • Support to al-Qaeda (Grecula) • • Plot against President Bush (Abu Ali) • • Zarqawi tasked by bin Laden to plan attacks • • 188 appendi Radical Domestic Year Name of Plot Domestic Overseas Islamist Extremist Other 2004 Jeddah consulate attack • • Tennessee extremist (Van Crocker) • • Former National Guardsman arrested (Braden) • • Financial institutions plot (New York Stock Exchange, International Monetary Fund Headquarters) • • New York subway plot (Herald Square) • • Albany sting (Aref/Araf, Hossain) • • Chicago Federal Building (Nettles) • • Islamabad embassy targeted • • UK urban targets (‘‘gas limos’’ plot) • • NATO summit in Istanbul • • Amman chemical bomb plot • • British bomb plot (Operation Crevice) • • Birmingham, AL, planned attacks (Hemphill) • • Government and tourist sites tasking • • 2003 Beirut embassy bombing attempt • • Planned abortion clinic bombings (Jordi) • • Columbus, OH, shopping mall (Abdi) • • Michigan militia member arrested (Somerville) • • NATO base plot (Trabelsi) • • Antiaircraft missile sting (Lakhani) • • Suicide bomber turned away (Banna) • • East Coast airline plot • • Brooklyn Bridge plot (Faris) • • Virginia ‘‘paintball terrorists’’ • • Planned attack on coast guard base (Revak) • • Antigovernment extremist plot (Noster) • • Nairobi embassy plot (truck...