FBI arrests man in New York Federal Reserve bomb plot Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, allegedly travelled to the US in January "for the purposes of conducting a terrorist attack on US soil." He was arrested in Manhattan after he tried to detonate a bomb less than a mile from the site of the Sept 11 attacks. Nafis was unaware that the bomb was actually provided as part of an FBI sting operation, according to New York prosecutors. In a statement, Mary Galligan, the FBI acting assistant director, said the attempt to "destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure." However, the suspect never posed a real risk as the accomplices that he had recruited to form a terrorist cell "were actually an FBI source and FBI undercover agent." Nafis allegedly wrote a statement claiming responsibility for his planned attack in which he said he wanted to "destroy America," and referred to Osama bin Laden as "beloved." He has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to support al-Qaeda.