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He had contended that the plot was never about injuring people but about damaging property belonging to organizations and companies that supported the war, she said.

It has been a quarter century, in fact, since a former police officer sued producers of "Fort Apache, the Bronx," contending that the plot mirrored details in a nonfiction book he had written.

Many analysts contend that the plot was doomed from the beginning by poor organization and planning.

In a Twitter message, Mr. Rushdie pointed to a front-page article in The Hindu, an English-language Indian newspaper, which contended that the assassination plot was invented by the police in Rajasthan, the state where the festival is being held, to discourage the author from attending.

The state contended that he plotted the murder with Leonard Jenoff, a financially strapped recovering alcoholic whom the rabbi befriended in 1993 and used as a private detective after Mrs. Neulander's death.

Lawyers representing four men accused of conspiring to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and destroy military planes in upstate New York said Thursday that a conversation in which prosecutors contended that the men discussed the plot was not recorded — contrary to what the government had charged in a complaint.

Mr. Katsav had contended that the rape accusation was a plot by the former Tourism Ministry employee, who he said was seeking revenge after she was fired.

The military contended that the search was routine.

He contended that the count should restart from the beginning.

The opposition has contended that the presidential election was rigged.

But the ministry contended that the countries' policies violated W.T.O.