The abortive attacks on London and Glasgow took place in 2007, not 2006 as originally stated.
In reality, the real anti-democratic menace comes from the US's own allies, who launched abortive coups against both Chávez and Correa – and successful ones in Honduras in 2009 and Paraguay last year.
Through the 1990s, attacks were restricted to targets – in Pakistan, Algeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere – which were distant from western populations, with the exception of the first abortive plot to bomb the World Trade Center in New York in 1993.
Douglas Alexander, a former protege who fell out with Brown over the abortive plans to call a UK general election in 2007, experienced something of a reconciliation with his mentor, whose role he likened to that played by the Quebecois former Canadian prime ministers Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Jean Chrétien in the closing stages of the 1980 and 1995 Quebec referendums.
Money is the only sticking point, not the amount the cash-rich Fox has, especially after its bid for Time Warner collapsed last year, but the amount coughed up by Sky shareholders since the abortive 2011 bid.
More prosaically, Liberator magazine has suggested that Grant played a part in both Mark Oaten's abortive leadership bid and his attempt to save his parliamentary career - or at least forge a new one as a minor television celebrity.
Some 25 years have gone by since the pair embarked on their first extraordinary, abortive five-month tussle for the world title.
Only one attack – the abortive 2007 London and Glasgow strikes – has been definitively linked to someone involved in that previous conflict, and he was not a former fighter.
All that has changed since the IFC's abortive 1999 plan is that the demand for water has grown due to the arrival of millions more people in the city.
A project in collaboration with Oxford University to breed native vultures in captivity in situ proved abortive, and though 182 chicks have resulted from the Bombay Natural History Society's all-India secular progamme, it may be a while before it can rank among Europe's success with the Eurasian Griffon Vulture or the saving of the Californian Condor.
He cited pro-American demonstrators in Libya, and the abortive Green revolution on Iran, during which, he said, Mr Obama was silent.
