FBI arrests suspect plotting to bomb NY Federal Reserve

[Ronin13]

Holy crap!

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday arrested a person suspected of plotting to explode a bomb in New York, a source familiar with the situation said.

The FBI’s Acting Assistant Director Mary Galligan also released the following statement on the attempted bombing:

“Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure. The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences. It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent. The FBI continues to place the highest priority on preventing acts of terrorism.”

The identity of the man arrested in the bomb plot has been identified as 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis.

Rick Leventhal provided more details about the suspect, who is a Bangladeshi national who traveled to the U.S. in January for the sole purpose of carrying out a terrorist attack. He raised red flags after he posted comments about jihad online. In trying to recruit others to form a terror cell in the U.S., the suspect came across an undercover FBI agent who the suspect believed was someone who also wanted to commit a terrorist act. The undercover agent provided him with twenty 50-pound bags of what was supposed to be explosive material. This morning, they put that 1,000 pounds of material in a van and drove to the Federal Reserve Bank. The suspect then tried to detonate the “bomb,” which was of course fake.

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/10/17...ork-bomb-plot/

[Rust_shackleford]

Soon we'll find out that the FBI as SOP all but entrapped another idiot.

[Ridge]

More like FBI agents knew a guy that wanted to do something, provided him with the encouragement and resources, and then arrested him once he got everything set up.

[Scanker19]

Good to see Die Hard finally made it their way.

[Ridge]

[Ronin13]

Mighty fine red x there Ridge...

[clublights]

Mighty fine red x there Ridge...

Blue question mark for us Mac heads LOL

[Ridge]

Fixed

[merl]

call me tinfoil but now every time I see a story like this, Bomb plot thwarted!, I think yeah right.

Just another case of finding someone online, giving them the idea, encouraging them, supply them, then arrest them. Yeah good job stopping a real threat there.

[Ridge]

For every 5 people in a plot like this there is 3 federal agents, 1 undercover reporter and 1 nutjob who didn't have any idea how to or means to accomplish his mission until the aforementioned showed up.