Sentence examples for foiled an attack from inspiring English sources

Police foiled an attack on a Christmas market in Ludwigshafen, in south-west Germany, by a 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy.

Police believe the operation may have foiled an attack.

Irish Justice Minister Dermot Ahern said the find foiled an attack in Northern Ireland.

Senior Irish police officers said they were satisfied they had foiled an attack by republican dissidents, Oglaigh na hEireann.

Saudi Arabia's Okaz newspaper reported this week that authorities had foiled an attack on US forces based in Qatar.

Belgian press agency Belga said on Sunday prosecutors charged the man in connection with a raid in Paris on Thursday that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.

Rabah N. was wanted in connection with a related raid in France this week that authorities say foiled an apparent attack plot.

For those who defend the use of torture, or of warrantless wiretapping, or of any other controversial intelligence technique, there is a tendency, after a successful mission or a foiled attack, to put forth a narrative in which the information elicited through the favored technique was the sine-qua-non detail.

Ayoub El-Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan charged with attempted murder for a foiled attack on a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris in August, also spent some time in this area of Brussels.

A foiled terrorist attack inspires an effective, stripped-down film from Clint Eastwood starring three men who helped save the day.

The people in Mr. Abaaoud's external operations branch were also behind the Brussels attacks, as well as a foiled attack in a suburb of Paris last week, and others are urgently being sought, Belgian and French officials say.