Man who tried to bomb US Federal Reserve sentenced to 30 years I'm ashamed. I'm lost. I tried to do a terrible thing. I alone am responsible for what I've done. Please forgive me," Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis said before his sentence was handed down in Manhattan federal court. He apologised to the judge, the United States, New York City and his parents. Authorities say that after coming to the US to study, Nafis adopted increasingly more radical views and began using Facebook and other social media to seek support for a terror attack. One of his contacts turned out to be a government informant who notified authorities. While under investigation, Nafis spoke of his admiration for Osama bin Laden and talked about wanting to kill President Barack Obama and bomb the New York Stock Exchange, officials said. As the plot progressed, Nafis selected his target, drove a van loaded with dummy explosives to the door of the bank and tried to set off the bomb from a hotel room using a cellphone he thought had been rigged as a detonator, authorities said. No one was ever actually in danger because the explosives were fakes provided by the government.