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Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis Dept: NEW YORK, N.Y. - A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Agents grabbed the 21-year-old Nafis armed with a cellphone he believed was rigged as a detonator after he made several attempts to blow up the bomb inside a vehicle parked next to the Federal Reserve, the complaint said and pedestrians pass the Federal Reserve Building Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012, 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. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said. AP Photo/Frank Franklin II Before trying to carry out the alleged terror plot, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis went to a warehouse to help assemble a 1,000-pound 450-kilogram bomb using inert material, according to a criminal complaint. He also asked an undercover agent to videotape him saying, "We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom," the complaint said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.