FBI arrests man plotting to blow up NY Federal Reserve

In a sting operation, the FBI apprehended a Bangladeshi man they say was planning to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The man had been assembling a 1,000 pound bomb in a New York warehouse.

By Basil Katz and Jessica Dye,?Reuters / October 17, 2012

Pedestrians pass the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday in New York. Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

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The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Bangladeshi man in a sting operation on charges he attempted to blow up the?New York Federal Reserve Bank?with what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb, federal authorities said.

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Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda, the U.S Department of Justice said in a statement. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

The FBI said the public was not in danger because the explosives provided to?Nafis?were never in working condition and the suspect was closely monitored by the undercover agent - highlighting a script law enforcement has employed several times this year in similar cases, including one in Washington and another in?Ohio.

White House?spokesman?Jay Carney?said President?Barack Obama?had been briefed about the arrest.

"Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure," said?Mary Galligan, FBI acting assistant director-in-charge. "The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences."

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