When agents did so nine days later - pressed by a skeptical judge - the bombing plot went up in smoke.

He is not charged in the bombing plot itself.

The detainees include some witnesses who appear to have little to do with the bombing plot.

"It" may have been, as prosecutors said, the bombing plot.

But, in attempting to create a plausible bombing plot, the Government's lawyers have run into difficulties.

An informer critical to breaking up a second bombing plot went through long testing.

But by early fall he'd picked up rumors that another bombing plot was afoot.

Belgium has already arrested six other suspects in the bombing plot.

He was later alleged by the government to have withheld information about a bombing plot.

Could it be that the amateur bombing plot won't likely get me in enough trouble to make love unimportant?