A 21 year-old Bangladeshi man with connections to Al-Qaeda was arrested yesterday for plotting to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank building in New York in an attempt to destroy the U.S. economy.
Breitbart is reporting that Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis entered the U.S. on a student visa in January, 2012 in an effort to recruit individuals for Al Qaeda who would form a terror cell that would carry out an attack on American soil. Fortunately, one of the persons he recruited turned out to be a “confidential human source” (CHS) who was working for the FBI. Eventually, an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda facilitator also joined Nafis team.
It was to this agent that Nafis confessed: “What I really mean, is that I don’t want something that’s like, small. I just want something big. Something very big. Very very very 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…”
Between July and October of this year, Nafis and the FBI source discussed a variety of potential targets in New York such as the New York Stock Exchange. FBI agents observed Nafis surveying the building and were later provided with a map he had made of the area. He told the agent he needed a “big car with lots of fruits and vegetables in there which can blow up the whole New York Stock Exchange building” and that he needed “to make sure that this building is gone.”
But by September, Nafis changed his mind and decided to attack the Federal Reserve Bank building on Liberty Street in NY. In a September 27th meeting with the undercover agent, he decided to create a large bomb and use a remote detonating device rather than carry out a suicide bombing. He was excited about his plans and the fact that they might even disrupt the upcoming election.
- Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis
What happened next was described in an FBI press release issued yesterday, just hours after the would-be attack.
“Earlier this morning, Nafis met the undercover agent and traveled in a van to a warehouse located in the Eastern District of New York. . . . . Upon arriving at the warehouse, Nafis assembled what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb inside the van. Nafis and the undercover agent then drove to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. During this drive, Nafis armed the purported bomb by assembling the detonator and attaching it to the explosives. Nafis and the undercover agent parked the van next to the New York Federal Reserve Bank, exited the van, and walked to a nearby hotel.
“There, Nafis recorded a video statement to the American public that he intended to release in connection with the attack. During this video statement, Nafis stated, ‘We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom.’ Nafis then repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, attempted to detonate the bomb, which had been assembled using the inert explosives provided by the undercover agent.”
Nafis was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force immediately after he attempted to detonate the bomb. He has been charged with “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2332a; and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339B.”
If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.
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