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The headquarters of the World Bank, just three blocks from the White House in Washington, is shown in this Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004 photo. A British man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to bomb high-profile targets in the United States including the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington and the New York Stock Exchange. Other alleged targets in the plot, which was foiled by Barot's arrest in 2004, included the World Bank headquarters in Washington, the Citigroup building in New York and the Prudential building in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Lauren Burke)