Suspected Terrorist Arrested For Alleged Plot To Bomb Federal Reserve In NYC -- NBC News New York
He parked a van packed with what he thought was a bomb outside the Fed on Wednesday, officials said
A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve building in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation, authorities said.
The suspect, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. in January for the specific purpose of launching a terror attack here, authorities said.
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