Plot to blow up NYC Federal Reserve Building

[YankeeFan]

I hope the suspect isn't Muslim.

Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said.

Earlier in the day, he went to a warehouse and assembled what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb using inert explosives provided by federal agents. He also recorded a videotaped statement in which he said, "We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom," federal prosecutors said.

Authorities said Nafis proposed several spots for his attack, including the New York Stock Exchange – and that in a written letter taking responsibility for the Federal Reserve job he was about to carry out, he said he wanted to "destroy America."

The Bangladeshi native reported having overseas connections to al-Qaeda, and traveled to the U.S. in January to carry out an attack, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn. He was trying to recruit people, but one was a secret FBI source, and Nafis was closely monitored as he tried to act out his plot.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/17/quazi-nafis-arrested-in-federal-reserve-terror-plot_n_1974981.html

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Congratulations to the Obama administration for foiling another terrorist plot.

 

[Versatile]

He was just a Quazi-terrorist.

 

[YankeeFan]

Congratulations to the Obama administration for foiling another terrorist plot.

Or, "I can't believe the FBI is still entrapping these poor ****s."

I'm guessing you'd have a different take under different circumstances.

Me? I'm glad the ****er is locked up.

 

[Uncle.Ruckus]

Congratulations to the Obama administration for foiling another terrorist plot.

Or, "I can't believe the FBI is still entrapping these poor ****s."

I'm guessing you'd have a different take under different circumstances.

Me? I'm glad the ****er is locked up.

You're no good at mind-reading. You should stick to repair and political analysis.

 

[LongTimeListener]

He was just a Quazi-terrorist.

Salute for this.

 

[Azrael]

+1

21 years old? Not really winning the whole 'hearts-and-minds' thing, are we?

And I'm sure it's in no way entrapment to sell him the bogus explosives, then wait for him to build a bomb.

 

[YankeeFan]

OK, maybe I shouldn't have speculated what Uncle.Ruckus would have said.

I should have just waited for Az to weigh in.

 

[Azrael]

I was responding to your post.

Do you think his handler helped him pick the target, too?

What does a 21-year-old from Bangladesh know about the Federal Reserve?

 

[cjericho]

Congratulations to the Obama administration for foiling another terrorist plot.

Or, "I can't believe the FBI is still entrapping these poor ****s."

I'm guessing you'd have a different take under different circumstances.

Me? I'm glad the ****er is locked up.

You're no good at mind-reading. You should stick to repair and political analysis.

That is political analysis. What if the Obama administration is profiling and targeting the Muslims. Wouldn't that be unnacceptable.

 

[cjericho]

I was responding to your post.

Do you think his handler helped him pick the target, too?

What does a 21-year-old from Bangladesh know about the Federal Reserve?

Maybe he was a cab driver and picked up people from that building.

 

[RickStain]

Domestic Counterterrorism: It works.