A plan by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen to blow up a plane bound for America with a bomb has been foiled by the CIA.
The would-be suicide bomber would planned to use an upgrade of the 'underwear' bomb Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed to detonate on board a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day.
Take a look at 10 other failed terrorist attempts, involving everything from shoe bombs to ricin, for another phew moment.
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