Joe Shearer
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FBI will present recorded voice, video and many other evidence, lets wait till that time to find out more information. From what we have seen from the report, this young man brought it to himself, to his family and countrymen and Muslims of the world, with his stupidity and clueless behavior, not thinking how his actions will affect all of us who are associated with him. It is no surprise that he admires OBL, Awlaki etc.
Not knowing driving is not a problem. His FBI partners can always drive for him. But it was he who called the cell phone number of the detonator, not once but quite a few times, according to the newspaper report. It was only after that he was arrested.
And saying that all US media/govt. provide fake made up news is a very naive and wrong position. There is a lot of media bias which shows up in different ways and it is usually not by making up fake trivial details in a story.
I agree.
It is highly unlikely that the FBI would frame charges and arrest a man, far less go public with the information, unless they had good evidence, and had a belief that their charges would stick. S2 notwithstanding.
Nafis' family stunned
Friday, October 19, 2012
'NY Terror Plot'
Nafis' family stunned
Ap, Dhaka
Just a few hours before he was arrested in an FBI sting operation, a Bangladeshi man accused of trying to blow up New York's Federal Reserve building calmly spoke via Skype with his parents back home and updated them on his studies, his family told The Associated Press.
They were stunned yesterday morning to find out that the banker's son from a middle-class Dhaka neighbourhood was accused of trying carry out a terror attack. They denied he could have been involved.
"My son couldn't have done it," his father, Quazi Ahsanullah, said weeping.
"My brother may have been a victim of a conspiracy," said Fariel Bilkis.
The FBI arrested 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis on Wednesday after he tried to detonate a fake 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) car bomb, according to a criminal complaint.
Prosecutors said Nafis travelled to the US on a student visa in January to carry out an attack.
Hours after his arrest, Bangladeshi detectives were at his family's three-story home in the Jatrabari neighbourhood in south Dhaka.
"We are just collecting details about Nafis from his family," one officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Nafis family said he was incapable of such actions and he went to America to study business administration, not to carry out any attack.
Nafis was so timid, he couldn't even venture out onto the roof alone, his father said. "He used to take someone to go the roof at night. I can't believe he could be part of it (the plot)."
"He is very gentle and devoted to his studies," he said, pointing to Nafis' time studying at the private North South University in Dhaka.
However, Belal Ahmed, a spokesman for the university, said Nafis was a terrible student who was put on probation and threatened with expulsion if he didn't bring his grades up. Nafis eventually just stopped coming to school, Ahmed said.
Ahsanullah said his son convinced him to send him to America to study, arguing that with a US degree he had a better chance at success in Bangladesh.
"I spent all my savings to send him to America," he said.
Nafis attended Southeast Missouri State University during the spring semester, which ended in May, in pursuit of a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity, university spokeswoman Ann Hayes said. He requested a transfer of his records in July and the university complied, Hayes said, though she couldn't say where the records were sent.
Mohammad Arif Akunjee, a childhood friend, said Nafis wanted to be a businessman.
Just a few hours before his arrest, Nafis talked to his mother over Skype to update her on his plans, Bilkis said.
"My brother told my mother that he was doing well in studies in the US and was transferring to a college in New York," said his sister.
Early yesterday, a relative living in Switzerland called to tell the family Nafis had been arrested.
"We woke up with this terrible news. We just can't believe it," she said.
Ahsanullah called on the government to "get my son back home."
Bangladesh does not have the same record of involvement in global terrorism as Pakistan, with which it once formed a nation before winning its independence in 1971. At least one Bangladeshi was among those detained by the US at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
What melodrama!
He couldn't go up to the roof alone, and the family sends him away to New York to study, living on his own.
Poor little rich kid.
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He just some Australian who hates Americans. 
