Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, parked a van full of what he thought were explosives outside the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning before recording a martyrdom video and then attempting to detonate the 'bomb’, according to an FBI charge sheet.
But he was arrested by undercover FBI agents whom he had plotted the attack with via Facebook believing they were al-Qaeda leaders.
Had the plot been enacted it would have been the most devastating terror attack on US soil since the September 11 attacks 11 years ago. It is the 15th plot foiled in New York since the World Trade Centre attack, according to the NYPD. » | Mark Hughes, New York | Wednesday, October 17, 2012
