The plot was foiled early on because the alleged bomber was a mole for a foreign intelligence service working against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, according to officials familiar with the case.
At the time of publication, the administration itself was preparing to announce that the bomb plot had been foiled, he said.
Aziz concedes this view was reinforced just a few months ago, in the wake of the foiled plot to blow up airplanes.
Curbs were imposed in August 2006 after police said they had foiled a plot to bring down as many as 10 planes.
America also fingered him for another (foiled) plot, to bomb a string of airports and aircraft on the eve of the millennium.
Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.
Officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have provided information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot.
Then on 6 May, US officials said they had and their allies had foiled a plot to bomb a US plane, involving a device that bore the "hallmarks" of the underwear bomb carried by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009.
But the fact remains that there are people they're still looking for and if the plot had been entirely foiled, then there wouldn't have been a need for this extraordinary security precaution we are seeing on both sides of the Atlantic.
The documents did not say whether Abassi knew of the foiled Canadian rail plot.
Last September German police foiled an alleged plot to bomb several places that attracted American visitors.
ECONOMIST: Unlike in America, terrorism in Europe is often home-grown
Jet charter bookings in the U.K. shot up 40% for the week following the foiled airliner bomb plot in London.
British police say they foiled a terrorist plot to bomb as many as ten airliners headed for the United States.
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