Abu Qatada, 53, is charged with plotting terror attacks against Israelis, Americans and other westerners in Jordan in two foiled attempts in 1999 and 2000.
A conspiracy involving his brother-in-law was foiled in late 39.
Together with the involvement of his son-in-law Lucius Annius Vinicianus in a foiled plot against Nero in 66, Corbulo became suspect in the eyes of the emperor.
Less martial countries too are in the terrorists' sights, to judge from the Madrid bombings in 2004, foiled plots in Germany and the attack on the Danish embassy in Pakistan last year.Playing it safeA direct military threat to Britain or NATO is unlikely but not impossible.
He had been implicated in previous foiled attacks in France and had been sentenced to 20 years in prison in absentia, according to French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
Security services also believed he had involved in a foiled terror cells in Verviers, in January 2015.
In September 1924, caught in the foiled holdup of a Mooresville grocer, he served much of the next decade (1924 33) in Indiana state prisons.
Adis Medunjanin, originally from Bosnia, was sentenced to life in prison in November 2012 for his role in a foiled 2009 plot.
A8 American Found Guilty in Peru Lori Berenson, a 31-year-old New Yorker held more than five years in Peruvian prisons on terror charges, was convicted by a civilian court in Lima and sentenced to 20 years in prison for collaborating in a foiled plot to take lawmakers hostage.
