FBI arrest New York Federal Reserve bomb plot suspect
1,128 views · Published 19 November 2012 · 0:42 · Indexed 4 November 2026
Channel: News Direct · 2012 · News & Politics
The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man on Wednesday in a sting operation on charges of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank with a 1000-pound bomb. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to give material support to al Qaeda in a statement given by the U.S. Department of Justice. If convicted, he would face life in prison. Nafis began to look for recruits to help him carry out the attack after arriving in the US in January 2012 on a student visa. One of his recruits turned out to be an undercover FBI agent. On Wednesday morning, the two traveled in a van to a New York warehouse where Nafis received 20 50-pound bags of inert ANFO, a common industrial explosive, from an FBI agent. He put together what he thought was a real bomb in the van, and then parked the van outside the bank on Liberty Street. The two then went to a nearby hotel so Nafis could record a video and detonate the bomb using a cellphone. After several failed attempts to detonate the bomb, federal agents arrested him.
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