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Mr. Othman was given two 15-year sentences in Jordan: one for helping to plot a hotel bombing in 1998 and the other for planning an attack in 1999 on a Christian pilgrimage site that the Jordanian government says it foiled.
The court's ruling does exactly the opposite, reviving an approach Congress discarded in 1986 because it foiled too many needed lawsuits.
Parts for the machines are hard to find, and when the Treasury Department redesigned $5 and $10 bills to foil counterfeiters, it foiled the machines, too.
It was unclear who the gunmen were or what they had been trying to do.See articleJordan's government said that a chemical attack it foiled two weeks ago against the headquarters of the country's intelligence service could have killed 80,000 people.
Syrian officials said the attack had been carried out by "a terrorist and sabotage group," broadly linking it to recent terrorist incidents in other Arab capitals, including deadly bombings in Saudi Arabia and a planned poison gas attack that Jordan said it foiled last week.
She has been open about her diabetes in the past, noting that when she was diagnosed at he age of eight, it foiled her hopes of becoming an investigative detective like her heroine, Nancy Drew.
It has in previous years been beset by arguments with Hindu nationalists over its hosting of Pakistani artists, and with irate Muslims over its (foiled) attempt to host Sir Salman Rushdie.
It was foiled only because the Justice Department slapped the deals down as anticompetitive.
Over the past several years, the government has announced that it has foiled several domestic terrorist plots but has provided few details.
Palestinian factions vowed a wave of attacks in retaliation, and Israel said it had foiled several attempted bombings in recent weeks.
The electorate might also be influenced by fears that the CPP will again resort to violence if it is foiled at the ballot box.But the CPP also has many genuine supporters.
