Several terror plots or acts were uncovered in various parts of the world this week already. These attacks arrive just weeks before the two year anniversary of infamous Al Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden’s death on May 2. The car bomb detonated out side of the French embassy in Tripoli, Libya. Two guards were injured in the in the blast and one remains in critical condition. There was also extensive damage to the area. The French military’s intervention in Mali earlier this year has increase the threats of domestic terrorism in the European country. The violence in the Libya’s capital is the first attack on diplomats since a US ambassador was killed in Benghazi last year.................
On Tuesday, Spanish police arrested and detained two men allegedly linked to Al Qaida’s North African wing. The Spanish interior ministry declined to say weather the men were believed to be planning an attack or providing support services for Islamist militants. Ten Years ago, a bomb explosion on four commuter trains during rush our in central Madrid killed 191 people in Europe’s deadliest Islamist militant attack.
Two men were arrested and charged by Canadian police on Monday after allegedly plotting to attack a passenger train departing from New York. Canadian authorities have linked them to Al Qaida’s factions in Iran, but the Canadian police said that there was no indication that the plan – the first known Al Qaida plot on Canadian soil. The attack would have targeted a rail line between New York and Toronto, which travels along the Hudson valley into New York’s wine country and enters Canada near Niagara Falls.
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