Bangladeshi Gets 30 Yrs For Foiled Bomb Plot

[Devil Soul]

Bangladeshi Gets 30 Yrs For Foiled Bomb Plot
Goals Of Martyrdom, Carnage Thwarted: US Attorney
NEW YORK, Aug 11, (AFP): A judge in New York City sentenced a Bangladeshi national to 30 years in prison for attempting to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in the Wall Street financial district last year.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 22, had earlier pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction — a 1,000-pound device inside a van that was in fact a dummy prop in a sting operation.
His plot was foiled by an FBI undercover agent posing as an al-Qaeda facilitator. Unaware that he was being recorded, Nafis repeatedly declared that he had come to the United States to carry out a terrorist attack.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is a five-minute walk away from the site of the World Trade Center, whose twin towers were destroyed on Sept 11, 2001 by airliners commandeered by al-Qaeda hijackers.


“Nafis’ goals of martyrdom and carnage were thwarted by the vigilance of law enforcement,” said US district attorney Loretta Lynch after US District Court judge Carol Amon handed down his sentence.
“He will now spend the next 30 years where his own actions have landed him — in a federal prison cell,” she said. Defense lawyer Heidi Cesare expressed disappointment.
“We were hoping for a little bit of mercy, an acknowledgment of his youth, his adolescence and his attempts to redeem himself,” she said outside the courthouse in Brooklyn. When he was arrested in October last year, Nafis was described by his family in Dhaka as the only son of a senior bank executive who had dropped out of Bangladesh’s most liberal university.


“We don’t believe that he could have committed this ... He is our pride and joy,” his father Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah told AFP at the time.
Nafis entered the United States on a student visa in January 2012 where, according to prosecutors, he sought out al-Qaeda contacts in hopes of setting up a terrorist cell.
One of the individuals he tried to recruit was in fact an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which together with New York police put Nafis under tight surveillance.

 

[Maler]

Bangladeshi Gets 30 Yrs For Foiled Bomb Plot
Goals Of Martyrdom, Carnage Thwarted: US Attorney
NEW YORK, Aug 11, (AFP): A judge in New York City sentenced a Bangladeshi national to 30 years in prison for attempting to bomb the Federal Reserve Bank in the Wall Street financial district last year.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 22, had earlier pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction — a 1,000-pound device inside a van that was in fact a dummy prop in a sting operation.
His plot was foiled by an FBI undercover agent posing as an al-Qaeda facilitator. Unaware that he was being recorded, Nafis repeatedly declared that he had come to the United States to carry out a terrorist attack.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is a five-minute walk away from the site of the World Trade Center, whose twin towers were destroyed on Sept 11, 2001 by airliners commandeered by al-Qaeda hijackers.


“Nafis’ goals of martyrdom and carnage were thwarted by the vigilance of law enforcement,” said US district attorney Loretta Lynch after US District Court judge Carol Amon handed down his sentence.
“He will now spend the next 30 years where his own actions have landed him — in a federal prison cell,” she said. Defense lawyer Heidi Cesare expressed disappointment.
“We were hoping for a little bit of mercy, an acknowledgment of his youth, his adolescence and his attempts to redeem himself,” she said outside the courthouse in Brooklyn. When he was arrested in October last year, Nafis was described by his family in Dhaka as the only son of a senior bank executive who had dropped out of Bangladesh’s most liberal university.


“We don’t believe that he could have committed this ... He is our pride and joy,” his father Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah told AFP at the time.
Nafis entered the United States on a student visa in January 2012 where, according to prosecutors, he sought out al-Qaeda contacts in hopes of setting up a terrorist cell.
One of the individuals he tried to recruit was in fact an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which together with New York police put Nafis under tight surveillance.

Ahhhhh.......Bangladeshi's toooo.......

Brethren I read in a thread about a suicide bomber, who struck in Iraq after 2003 was an Indian. Can someone shed some more light of that incident and bomber???