Failed Terrorist Attack at the Federal Reserve Bank

An Al-Qaeda member, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nadis, planned to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City. His plan failed because he told a undercover agent, posed Al-Qaeda facilitator, that he needed 50 pound bags of explosives.  As planned, the undercover agent supplied Nafis with what he thought were 1,000 pounds of explosives into a van. While driving to the Federal Reserve Bank, Nafis told the agent about his "Plan-B" suicide bombing mission if he felt that the cops were onto his idea.  The pair went into a hotel where Nafis created a video explaining how he wanted to destroy America and the best way to do so was to target the American economy.  He also included a quote from Osama bin Laden to justify his plan because it involved killing American women and children.  The video was meant to be released after the attack to tell Americans that Al-Qaeda "will not stop until [they] attain victory or martydom."

Nafis tried several times to set off the bombs, which were actually inert explosives. Shortly after, he was arrested and most of his terrorist attack plan was caught on tape.  After 11 years of terrorism- free America and 15 terrorist attempts, our law enforcement destroyed another attempt of terrorism. Nafis will be charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to Al- Qaeda.  The public must understand that they were never at risk in this case since 2 of the "accomplices" of the defendant were American FBI undercover agents along with Nafis.

More to come on what happens in this case.

Lisa Cole

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/17/man-arrested-in-plot-to-blow-up-federal-reserve-bank-in-new-york/?hpt=hp_t1