Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafism , a 21-year-old man from Bangladesh supposedly with ties to Al Qaeda, has been arrested for trying to blow up the New York federal reserve with a 1000-pound bomb.
Nafis asked the undercover agent for 50-pound bags of what he thought were explosives, and then worked on putting together an explosive device, according to prosecutors.
"Nafis purchased components for the bomb’s detonator and conducted surveillance for his attack on multiple occasions in New York City’s financial district in lower Manhattan," a Justice Department press release describing the criminal complaint said. “Throughout his interactions with the undercover agent, Nafis repeatedly asserted that the plan was his own and was the reason he had come to the United States."
You know, I find it somewhat interesting that a 1000-pound bomb is now a "weapon of mass destruction (WMD)." By that definition, Iraq was crawling with WMD's when we invaded them.
Onward and upward,
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