A 21-year-old Bangladeshi man, who came to the US on a student visa, was detained Wednesday after allegedly attempting to detonate a device near the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that federal authorities and the NYPD undercover agents led to believe was a real bomb.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was arrested after being caught up in an elaborate sting in which undercover agents led him to believe they were terrorist cells planning attacks inside the US.
Prosecutors say Nafis was apparently motivated by al Qaeda and traveled to the US in January with the aim of carrying out “a terrorist attack on U.S. soil” recruiting others to form a terrorist cell.
The details of the plot remain largely unknown, but Nafis allegedly contacted an FBI source to whom he proposed multiple targets. The undercover agent, authorities claim, provided 20 bags of 50 pounds each of purported explosives to Nafis, who then stored the material in a warehouse in preparation for the strike.
Nafis appears to be a lone actor whose only known contacts and efforts to carry out any sort of attack involved the FBI undercover agents. These types of cases crop of once in a while and often times garner accusations of entrapment, as people wonder whether these people ever would have been successful without undercover FBI help and whether these people really constitute threats.
FUCK THE LIARS. WE ARE FED UP FROM FBI FRAMING INNOCENT PEOPLE TO KEEP AMERICAN DUBM
I think New York police commissioner Ray Kelly perhaps inadvertently got to the nub of the story: The US public has become complacent about the dangers of terrorism and now has a reminder. His succinct statement (regrettably I forget the lapidary prose itself, in one sentence) seems to explain this sting. It is for us, kids. We are the target, not so much of terrorism but of anti-terrorism reminders.
This "lone wolf" or whatever he is, from Bangladesh, was taken quickly in hand and directed like a reality show actor. Now he is road kill. You should see the screaming nuts on the eleven o'clock news talking about how scary he is. Nobody can stop talking about him.
That was silly. You don't sneak up on the Federal Reserve building with a bomb. You drag them into a public square and line them up for the guillotine. If that sounds unrealistic, pick a non-violent route.
If they're telling the truth thus far, he may have been persuaded that the Fed was the right target –that many Americans knew what it is. As it stands, the Fed gets something like 'sympathy' and GWoT-suckers get a boost -as if the Fed were 'America.' A net loss for all of us.
~'motivated by AQ', but ~'allegedly contacted Hoover Boyz.' Are they posing as AQ now? Where else might they be doing that other than in the entrapment game? And just how 'new' is that?
It does sort of beg the question: what does this kid know about the Fed from where he sat in Bangladesh? Oh wait. I forgot. He had all these al Qaeda handlers. Wouldn't they have been suspicious of his new pals in the FBI? People he is supposed to have "recruited" in America? This story is one of the flimsiest bits of propaganda I have ever heard. But if enough blondes with racks on the news are yelling about it, the public will be convinced it is real. The cheerleaders just have to shake their pompoms hard enough.
I often stop for musings; a pleasure.
Money from nothing and charging you for it seems plain enough… unless a person can't 'see' a currency as something arbitrary; as a state-of-mind. Maybe the 'third worlders' have an advantage there. Just the criminals' version of credit cards. Story seems to be they rummaged through a pile of targets, discussed the prez, lingered on the stock exchange, and arrived at the Fed. Coincidentally, their image just got trounced by a guy widely perceived as the-only-honest-politician. And it should damn well stay trounced…
Nice jobs program for the FBI and NYPD. You would think with all of the "terrorists" they claim are out there, it would not be necessary to invent ones. A show for the dupes.
I doubt very much that he even new he was carrying
Explosives, I bet he was doing a delivery for them.
21 year old kid with a student visa, God knows how
Hard this kid studied to get the degree to make him
Able to gain the visa, this sting and all previous
Ones are nothing but to dupe ignorant Americans
My self included that the government working so
Hard to keep us safe from terrorists and keep the
Wars going and the money flowing.
This is really getting pathetic and annoying. Nice to see our tax dollars still being used to entrap the naive, unstable and foolish.
So which third rate country is next to embarass ?
The US?
What happens if 2 undercover FBI agents recruit each other to blow stuff up? Do they both go to jail or do they get medals?
Another patsy falls victim to FBI entrapment. If they didn't create these phony plots, they'd all be out of job cause heavens knows they don't have the balls to go after the real terrorists in either Wall Street or in right wing NeoNazi training camps down South.
How to catch a patsy…errr…terrorist 101:
1. FBI masterminds fake terror plot.
2. FBI pays informant to find and set up patsy.
3. FBI provides all necessary tools to said patsy.
4. FBI arrests sucker.
5. FBI congratulates the FBI on its efficiency and brilliant performance.
Repeat steps 1-5 ad nauseum in order to prove that they're protecting the US from imaginary dangers and enemies.