Operation BojinkaDocuments and laptops seized after a raid on the Manila apartment of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, and the arrest of Pakistani militant Abdul Hakim Murad, revealed many plans for attacking US targets.
One plan, code-named Operation Bojinka, involved the bombing of 11 commercial airliners flying to the US in January 1995. September 11th, 2001
The twin towers of New York's World Trade Center both collapsed after two hijacked commercial airliners slammed into each building. A third aircraft struck the Pentagon near Washington and a fourth crashed in a field in rural Pennsylvania.
A total of 2,973 people died in the co-ordinated attacks.
Shoe bomber
Richard Reid, a British-born follower of Osama bin Laden, was sentenced to life in prison in January 2003 for trying to blow up a transatlantic flight with explosives stuffed in his shoes.