Examples
Australia
- Operation Pendennis: Melbourne & Sydney, November 2005.
Though the prosecution did not convict all men charged in Melbourne and Sydney, it forestalled a planned bombing attack.
Canada
- Toronto 18 Plot: June 2006
Germany
- 9/11 attacks: September 11, 2001
The Hamburg terror cell was found to have played a major role in planning the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
Norway
- 2011 Norway attacks: July 22, 2011
A right-wing extremist who spoke against Islam and immigration, Anders Behring Breivik was responsible for a car bomb explosion that killed 8 in Oslo and killing 69 at a summer camp on the island of Utøya.
Netherlands
- Theo van Gogh murder by the Hofstad Group: Amsterdam, November 2004
Spain
- Madrid Train Bombings: March 2004
United Kingdom
- London Underground bombing: July 2005
United States
- Oklahoma City bombing: April 1995
- Buffalo Six (aka Lackawanna Six): Lackawanna, NY, arrested in 2002
- José Padilla: arrested in 2002 on suspicion of planning to detonate a radiological bomb.
- Portland Seven: Oregon: 6/7 arrested 2002
- Virginia Jihad Network: 8/11 arrested 2003
- Herald Square, New York City: August 2004
- Colleen LaRose, aka 'Jihad Jane,' Fatima LaRose: arrested October 2009, & Jamie Paulin-Ramirez: arrested March 2010, for recruiting individuals for violent jihad in the West and plotting to murder Swedish artist Lars Vilks, for having made a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad's head on the body of a dog.
- Little Rock recruiting office shooting: Arkansas, June 2009
- Fort Hood Shooting: TX November 2009
- Farooque Ahmed: arrested October 2010 for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C. metro system stations at Arlington cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House.
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