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October 18, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/terrorist-bomb-york-federal-reserve-bank-feds/story?id=17502708#.UH-wI2_MhGQ

Terrorist Tries to Bomb New York Federal Reserve Bank, Sought Al-Qaeda Contacts

(ABC News) Richard Esposito, Jason Ryan and Pierre Thomas - Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, a Bangladeshi national, on Wednesday parked a van filled with what he believed to be 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City, and was arrested after he tried to detonate the "bomb" with a cellphone. Authorities said he was the target of a law enforcement sting. Nafis came to the U.S. in January in hopes of conducting a terror attack on U.S. soil. He tried to recruit others to form a terror cell inside the U.S., and actively sought out al-Qaeda contacts.

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