And while Dookudidn't believe in luck half as much as hebelieved in the less random patterns ofconspiracy, plotandcounterplot, he wasn't about to pass up an opportunity.
Government spokesmen later backed away from the coup plot theory, saying the conspiracy was only aimed at assassinating government leaders and bombing strategic installations.
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If you look it up in the dictionary, one definition for the word has it as a synonym for an underhand plot or conspiracy.
Tahawwur Rana, 52, was convicted in June 2011 of conspiracy to provide material support in the plot against the Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten newspaper and of providing material support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e Tayyiba-terror organization.
And the fact of the matter is that the United States disrupted a conspiracy to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in a plot that was directed by elements of the Iranian government.