FBI says man tried to blow up Federal Reserve Bank in NYC
Atlanta Business Chronicle by Carla Caldwell, Morning Call EditorDate: Thursday, October 18, 2012
Federal prosecutors have charged a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man with conspiring to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The man, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, tried to remotely detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb in a van he parked outside the building in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, reports the New York Times.
Nafis, who came to the United States in January on a student visa, worked to make contacts and recruit people to form a terrorist cell to help him carry out an attack, according to a criminal complaint in the case.
One of these recruits was an FBI informer who introduced him to an undercover FBI agent. The incident on Wednesday was recorded as part of a string operation carried out by the FBI and the New York Police Department, according to court papers obtained by the NYT.
Officials said Nafis spoke of a desire to “attack and kill” a high-ranking government official. A senior law enforcement official said Wednesday night that the official was President Obama, but that Nafis’s desire did not get beyond talking about it, the New York Times reported.
No comments:
Post a Comment