Alleged terrorist arrested for trying to blow up Federal Reserve building in NYC

New York City : NY : USA | Oct 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM PDT

By VeronicaS

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A young man was arrested on Wednesday for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York City.

According to NBC 4 New York, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammed Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis is an immigrant from Bangladesh, here on a student visa since January. He was studing cyber security at a college in Missouri, reported CNN News.

Nafis reportedly drove a van full of what he thought were deadly explosives close to the Federal Reserve building located in Manhattan, where he was apprehended after he tried to detonate the 1,000-pound bomb.

Apparently authorities were on to Nafis, for undercover agents reportedly said that the young man came to the US for the sole purpose of carrying out acts of terror.

Nafis, unaware that authorities knew of his deadly plots, told agents that he wanted to bomb the Fed building to disrupt the 2012 election and hurt America's economy. He also wrote about his hero Osama bin Laden in a statement he signed for police. He also made a video to be released after the bombing of the Federal Reserve had been completed.

The Fed building, which is located close to the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan, was not his only target. Nafis allegedly also wanted to blow up the New York Stock Exchange and kill high-ranking officials.

During his stay in the US, Nafis lived in the Queens borough of New York and reportedly searched out al-Qaida operatives here to help him with his terror plot. Little did he know his "al-Qaida contact" was an undercover FBI agent.

The agent fed him useless material to build his bomb, and when he finally drove what he thought was his deadly handiwork to the Fed building, New York police and the FBI was there to nab him.

He will appear in court later today, charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material to al-Qaida.

The NYPD has assured the public that they were in no danger during this terror sting, adding that this undercover operation was left to play out to the end so that authorites could learn if there were others involved.

Stay tuned for more as the story develops.

VeronicaS is based in New York City, New York, United States of America, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

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Post a Comment Comments: 13

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gloriacalzita | 8 months ago

well, terrorists are really ruining the world.

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Redhanded | 8 months ago

That's surprsing. I thought al-Qaida was on the run and in retreat according to the President?

Is there a you-tube video out there that will explain this attempted terrorist attack away also?

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canucanoe2 | 8 months ago

If your reading skills were as good as your sniping skills, you would know from the report that he had no connection to al-Qaeda unless you are stupid enough to consider an FBI agent posing as an al-Qaeda operative as being the real deal.

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Amee Ellsworth | 8 months ago

I think it is great that they were able to catch this kid! It amazes me the things that happen and they catch it. Wow! Shared and rated up!

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dwellons | 8 months ago

wow, thank goodness we finally have a white conservative Christian male attempting a terrorist act so that we can prove that it is not just people with Arabic-sounding names from areas that support Al-Qaida. We can finally stop this insane profiling and resume strip searching grandma at the airport.

Of course, this poor devil was "entrapped" by the Feds, so he's not really guilty.

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BunmiBinitie | 8 months ago

Thank God for exposing this deadly plot and saving a lot of lives!

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JamesStotter | 8 months ago

Amee, I agree with you except for one word. No one who would do that is a "kid, boy, young person, youth, young man, or anything that sounds positive or innocuous. Someone like that warrants a label such as criminal, terrorist, or mass murderer (or perpetrator of mass murder), to name just a few.

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springton | 8 months ago

Really? We were about due for another FBI action like this. Almost every "terrorist" attempt in the last decade is instigated by the authorities. They find some poor dupe and encourage the sucker to blow something up, All the while reinforcing the fools ideological rationals for committing the act. Then they supply the intellectually challenged individual fake explosives. After that, they arrest the idiot and tell us that they have saved us from another terrible event.

We must ask ourselves some questions. Would this individual have really been a threat without being encouraged in his ideology by the agents involved? Would the individual have been able to obtain and have the technical expertise to produce a viable explosive device?

We are being told that we are being protected from threats, but are we? Or are these contrived incidents designed to gain support and funding for increasing the security state? In a country of 310 millions, there will always be a few crazies. Real incidents have been quite rare and historically less now than they have been the past.

Everything in life entails risk. We cannot be made perfectly safe. that is especially true if we wish to live in a free and open society. It should also be noted that governments in the past that have used such tactics as an excuse to expand police powers and restrict the civil rights of the population. The question arises; where is the real threat?

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DESTINYDIOGENES | 8 months ago

BRAVO,,SO TRUE,,YOU NAILED IT

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dwellons | 8 months ago

@springton - I fully agree. These are kabuki dances to make it appear we are fighting this war. This is not the only dupe they've set up.

On one hand, though, i guess this makes the FBI and NYPD "racists" since they always seem to select arabic-named young men - exactly the profile they claim doesn't exist - to set up in these stings.

In no way am I defending the perp - if he weren't so inclined,he would not have done this, so he's guilty regardless of the reason he got caught. I know they couldn't talk me into such an action, and I doubt anyone else on this thread would do it either, so it does demonstrate "intent", even if he's stupid.

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springton | 8 months ago

Hey, I'm no fan to people that are susceptible to those that would incite violence. But ask yourself: if a impressionable person is surrounded by people that reinforce negative viewpoints then commits a crime that wouldn't happen if that person was not reinforced in his violent intent, does it change the "guilt"? Remember entire nations of people were subjected to such influence.

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joycesingha | 8 months ago

This is all Romney's fault and prior to that Bush' :) Obama assured himself, some Americans, and his staff that Al-Qaeda was on the run; is he NOT liked any more around the world and could that be the reason for this 'alleged terrorist'. In Obama's world, there is no terrorism and no terrorists only bad, evil America.

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nazish7 | 8 months ago

What a marvelous job.Those dumb CIA,FIB couldn't provide security to their own ambassador in Egypt but got a easy target on the name of Al-Qaeda.They are really good.