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Bangladeshi man arrested after allegedly trying to blow up Fed building in NYC

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Federal authorities arrested a Bangladeshi national Wednesday morning for allegedly plotting to blow up a Federal Reserve Bank in New York Citys lower Manhattan, mere blocks away from the site of the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001. The bank is one of 12 branches around the country. The 21-year-old suspect, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Fed building on Liberty Street, but the device was a fake supplied to him by undercover FBI agents who had been tracking his activity, the FBIs Joint Terrorism Task Force said Wednesday afternoon.

The supposed explosives posed no threat to the public, the FBI said. A criminal complaint accuses Nafis of having overseas connections to Al Qaeda and travelling to the U.S. in January to recruit individuals to form a terrorist cell and conduct an attack on American soil. He came under the guise of going to school in Missouri on a student visa. One of Nafis potential recruits was an FBI source, who alerted authorities, the FBI said.

A federal law enforcement official told Fox News that there was no evidence Nafis was directed by Al Qaeda to carry out this attack, though he appears to have thought he was working for the terrorist group.At one point, according to criminal complaint, Nafis told undercover agents: “I dont want something thats like, small. I just want something big. Something very big … that will shake the whole country, that will make America, not one step ahead, change of policy, and make one step ahead, for the Muslims … that will make us one step closer to run the whole world.” A U.S. official told Fox News that President Obama was Nafis first target, but the criminal complaint only refers to “a high-ranking official.” The complaint also mentions the New York Stock Exchange as a proposed target.

The FBI cites a written statement obtained from Nafis, in which he said he wanted to “destroy America” and determined that the best way to achieve that goal was to target the economy. He also referenced quotes from “our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden”. Nafis appeared in federal court in Brooklyn to face charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Al Qaeda. Wearing a brown T-shirt and black jeans, he was ordered held without bail and did not enter a plea. His defense attorney had no comment outside court. “Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure,” FBI Acting Assistant Director-in-Charge Galligan said. “The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences”. NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly noted that there have been 15 terrorist plots targeting the city since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “Al Qaeda operatives and those they have inspired have tried time and again to make New York City their killing field,” Kelly said. “After 11 years without a successful attack, its understandable if the public becomes complacent. But thats a luxury law enforcement can’t afford.”

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5 thoughts on “Bangladeshi man arrested after allegedly trying to blow up Fed building in NYC”

  1. New York’s had an amazing record of bomb plots / terror attacks being thwarted, exposed, or not detonating since 911 wake up call

  2. Allah always knows how to make his presence known. Thank the real creator for keeping us safe.

    I was watching a 13 part documentary about world war 2 this week and realized that with Ottoman Empire having collapsed, the Muslims weren’t even a player in the war, they were relegated to spectators at the mercy of everyone else. This must have been hard on the Muslim mind set and could very well have fueled the rise of extremism. They themselves say that returning to pure Islam will return then to the glory days if the empire.

  3. In Judaism, you are asked to become a ‘Son of God’.
    In Christianity, you are asked to become ‘Children of God’.
    In Islam…you are mandated to be a ‘Slave of Allah’.

    What do you want to be when you grow up?

  4. The Glory days of Islam actually occurred during the Christian Byzantine Empire, (a continuation of Eastern Roman Empire). When Christian Constantinople and Holy Land and the Crusading defenders were finally overwhelmed by the Muslim invaders, (and Constantinople was turned into Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire), that’s when it began its descent.

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