Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis: Criminal Complaint

Federal Reserve Dept: Authorities grabbed 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis armed with a cellphone he believed was rigged as a detonator on Wednesday after he made several attempts to blow up a fake 1,000-pound bomb inside a vehicle parked next to the Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan, according to a criminal complaint, according to Montreal Gazette. The plot was phoney, but authorities alleged that Nafis' admiration of Osama bin Laden and aspirations for martyrdom were not and nEW YORK, N.Y. - A Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting considered targeting a high-ranking government official and the New York Stock Exchange before authorities say he raised the bar further by picking one of New York City's most fortified sites: The Federal Reserve. In a September meeting with an undercover agent posing as a fellow jihadist, Nafis explained he chose the Federal Reserve "for operational reasons," according to a criminal complaint. Nafis also indicated he knew that choice would "cause a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children," the complaint said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.