And last week, a key al-Qaeda recruiter, plotter, and propagandist, Anwar al-Alawki was killed.
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In 1606, Guy Fawkes, chief plotter in the attempt to blow up the British Houses of Parliament, was executed.
Hazel Gregory was 18 in 1940 and working as a plotter at the Headquarters of Fighter Command in Uxbridge.
We were told once he was captured, Khalid Sheik Mohammed mentioned another guy, Majid Khan - this is the gas station plotter, you'll recall.
Police in the West African state of Benin are hunting for the third alleged plotter suspected of mounting a failed coup to unseat the country's president.
He said he had posed as a trained plotter with al-Qaeda contacts because he had faced rumours in his local community that he was a Pakistani spy.
The role of political plotter, and financier of Russian opposition parties, was the latest in a series of reincarnations that Mr Berezovsky went through in his 67 years.
Police later established that the man accompanying Uddin was fellow plotter Omar Khan - and that the pair had bought some of the knives eventually found in the car boot.
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To convey his plans for revolt against the Persian king, one Greek plotter wrote his message on the shaved head of his messenger, and then waited for the hair to grow back.
Not long ago, the people of this city were told that they had no choice but to watch and endure a spectacle like no other with the leading plotter of 9-11 brought to trial in lower Manhattan.
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These printers use something like a toothpaste tube of plastic or other material held vertically in an X-Y plotter that squirts out thin layers of tiny dots of material that build up, layer by layer, to produce a 3D replica of the computer-generated design.
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He had released information Wednesday on a person identified as "Fazul, " who he said was known to be an active plotter and participant in the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and in the bombing of a hotel in Mombassa last November.
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