2010 Cargo Plane Bomb Plot
On 4 November 2010, Hortefeux said that one of the two bombs in the 2010 cargo plane bomb plot was defused just 17 minutes before it was set to explode.
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—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
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—Dalton Trumbo (19051976)
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—Max Ernst (18911976)
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—James Thurber (18941961)