孟加拉男子试图炸毁美国联邦储备银行 同伙是卧底

　　今日（17日）早晨，一位来自孟加拉国的21岁恐怖分子因试图以装载于汽车上的爆炸装置炸毁位于曼哈顿下城的美国联邦储备银行而被捕。据悉，该名男子是在今年1月以学生签证进入美国的。他是恐怖大亨本拉登的追随者，希望以炸毁美国联邦储备银行的行动来破坏美国的总统大选。他甚至还叫嚣要毁灭美国。而其“同伙”是FBI安排的卧底人员。该名卧底人员偷偷将其爆炸装置更换，才得以制止悲剧。

　　美联邦官员抓获涉嫌攻击美联储建筑疑犯

　　北京时间10月18日凌晨消息，据NBC 4 News周三报道称，美国联邦官员已经逮捕了一名嫌疑犯，他们称这名疑犯涉嫌攻击美联储在纽约市的建筑。

　　联邦官员称，警方在纽约市中心逮捕了这名名为Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis的疑犯，该疑犯是一名21岁的孟加拉国人。他被指控试图使用大规模杀伤性武器和向基地组织提供物质支持。

　　据官方发布的报道称，Nafis从长岛驾驶一辆厢式货车到曼哈顿下城，车上被怀疑载有爆炸物。之后，Nafis将车停在了美联储建筑物附近，随后被FBI和纽约警察局逮捕。

　　NEW YORK （AP） ― Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested a man they said was plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

　　Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in a sting operation Wednesday morning after he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the building and tried to detonate it in a suicide mission, authorities said.

　　Earlier in the day, he went to a warehouse and assembled what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb using inert explosives provided by federal agents. He also recorded a videotaped statement in which he said, "We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom," federal prosecutors said.

　　Authorities said Nafis proposed several spots for his attack, including the New York Stock Exchange ― and that in a written letter taking responsibility for the Federal Reserve job he was about to carry out, he said he wanted to "destroy America."


　　The FBI and NYPD arrest a suspected terrorist involved in an apparent plot to attack the Federal Reserve of New York, reports WNBC's Jonathan Dienst.

　　By Jonathan Dienst and Shimon Prokupecz, NBCNewYork.com

　　NEW YORK - A suspected terrorist parked a van packed with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb next to the Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan and tried to detonate it Wednesday morning before he was arrested in a terror sting operation, authorities said.

　　The suspect, 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, is a Bangladeshi national who came to the U.S. on a student visa in January for the specific purpose of launching a terror attack here, authorities said. He allegedly told an undercover agent last month that he hoped the attack would disrupt the presidential election, saying "You know what, this election might even stop," according to the criminal complaint against him.

　　The complaint said Nafis wrote a statement claiming responsibility for what he thought would be the Fed attack, saying he wanted to "destroy America" by going after its economy. He referred to "our beloved Sheikh Osama bin Laden" in the statement.

　　He also proposed various other targets beyond the Fed building at 33 Liberty Street, just blocks from the World Trade Center site, prosecutors said. He also considered targeting a "high-ranking U.S. official" as well as the New York Stock Exchange, prosecutors said.

　　Nafis, who lives in Jamaica, Queens, allegedly sought out al-Qaida contacts to help him, unknowingly recruiting an FBI source in the process. At that point, the FBI and NYPD began monitoring him as he developed the plot, prosecutors said.

　　An undercover FBI agent posed as an al-Qaida facilitator, supplying him with 20 50-pound bags of what he thought were explosives to use in building his bomb. He also visited the Lower Manhattan site multiple times as he planned the attack, officials said.

　　Prosecutors say Nafis met the agent Wednesday morning and put the bomb inside a van before driving to the Fed building, assembling the detonator while he drove.

　　The pair parked the van by the Fed, got out and walked to a hotel, where Nafis recorded a video statement he meant to be released after the attack. He then tried to detonate the purported bomb, officials said.

　　Law enforcement officials stress that the plot was a sting operation monitored by the FBI and NYPD and the public was never at risk.  The materials he believed were explosives had been rendered inoperable, officials said.

　　Nafis is expected in court later Wednesday. He is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida.