WHITE PLAINS, New York (AFP) – US security services announced Thursday they had foiled a plot by four Americans to blow up a New York synagogue and shoot down a warplane in a year-long undercover operation sure to fuel fierce debate over national security.
The alleged terrorists, all US citizens, were arrested Wednesday as they laid what they believed were bombs -- in fact duds supplied by undercover agents -- outside a Jewish temple in New York's Bronx neighborhood, authorities said.
The four were due to appear in federal court in the New York state town of White Plains later Thursday.
