Talk about a plan to End the Fed. The Justice Department on Wednesday indicted Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi national who lived in Queens and who was allegedly caught red-handed trying to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
The complaint tells a compelling, quick narrative. The plot started in July. Nafis, who had come to the U.S. to wage â??jihad,â? tried to enlist someone in his plans to harm Americansâ??and it happened to be an FBI informant. His plan quickly evolved from wanting to â??attack and kill a high-ranking government officialâ? into something larger. The informant introduced Nafis to a guy who was supposed to be an al Qaeda contact, but who was actually an undercover law-enforcement officer. Nafis considered the New York Stock Exchange as a target, and scoped out the area on Aug. 9. He asked for a â??big car with lots of fruits and vegetables in there which can blow up the whole New York Stock Exchange building.â? By late September, however, he had shifted tack, and said that â??he was considering attacking the Federal Reserve Bank instead of, or in addition to, the New York Stock Exchange.â?
