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Report: Oprah’s studios, Sears Tower targeted in terrorist truck bomb attack

By Paul Bedard
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Report: Oprah’s studios, Sears Tower targeted in terrorist truck bomb attack

Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based Harpo Studios and the city’s iconic Sears Tower were targeted in a 2009 truck bomb attack plotted by anti-U.S. terrorists, according to a new report.

But the plot was foiled by federal and Illinois police before a bomb-laden U-Haul got to Chicago, and the apparent FBI mismanagement of the case prompted the agency to keep the whole affair secret, according to Judicial Watch, the taxpayer watchdog group.

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