Also on Sunday, Iran's Jahan News reported that Iranian security forces had foiled an effort to assassinate both Mir Hussein Moussavi, the main challenger to Mr. Ahmadinejad, and Mehdi Karroubi, another candidate in the presidential election, both of whom have called the June 12 vote fraudulent.
After Mr. Padilla was arrested in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, interrupted a trip to Moscow to announce on television that the authorities had foiled an effort by Mr. Padilla and other Qaeda operatives to detonate a radioactive or "dirty" bomb on American streets.
Mr Dahal, who resigned after he was foiled in an effort to sack an old enemy, Nepal's army chief, General Rookmangud Katawal, has said they remain committed to democracy.
Democratic legislators in Texas have once more fled the state to foil a brazen effort by Tom DeLay to add six more seats to his Republican House majority through an extraordinary gerrymandering of Democratic Congressional districts.
That has made the North Korea-Iran trading routes a prime target of the administration's Proliferation Security Initiative, and American officials say they foiled an Iranian effort to load one of its cargo planes on North Korean soil.
Several years later, Black is able to work with FBI agents Fox Mulder David Duchovnyy) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) to foil a last-ditch effort by the Group to bring about the end of the world; vindicated, he reunites with Jordan after the case.
The technique has been used for years in Europe in an effort to foil terrorists, but after the Sept. 11 attacks many travel experts considered it inadequate.
There are letters containing diagrams of pillar box designs sent in by the public in an effort to foil the attacks of suffragettes, who saw them as a symbol of government, at times destroying thousands in a single night.
In what is being described as an effort to foil terrorists and other criminals, the department announced this month that -- beginning immediately -- Americans who lose their passports abroad or who live overseas and need a new one will be issued a state-of-the-art passport with a computer-generated digital photograph of the applicant.
The offer is an effort to foil a June acquisition proposal from TMP Worldwide, which owns number one job site Monster.com.
