Quazi Nafis, from Bangladesh, Planted Car Bomb to Blowup Manhattan bank and planned to attack President'

Quazi Nafis, from Bangladesh, he 21-year-old student, is currently behind bars,
after his plot to blow up the New York Federal Reserve, including plans to target President Obama. He was arrested on Wednesday after he tried to remotely detonate a fake 1,000-pound car bomb outside the building in lower Manhattan, only a few blocks from the World Trade Center.

Nafis was supplied with fake explosives by an undercover agent which led FBI and NYPD operation to foil the plot, says New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. Nafis arrived in the U.S. on a student visa in January, under the guise of going to Southeast Missouri State University but was allegedly plotting an attack.


He was believed to have been working towards a degree in cyber security, according to CBS2 but had been transferring his studies to New York. His home in Jamaica, Queens was surrounded by NYPD and FBI this afternoon as they removed boxes of material.

Authorities tracked Nafis using Facebook and other social media including a Google+ account but the information was taken down on Wednesday. Commissioner Kelly said: 'New York continues to be very clearly in the mind frame of terrorists.'

It emerged that the suspect - Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis - had left a chilling video message in which he pledged to 'destroy America.' According to the FBI complaint, he was acting on behalf of al-Qaeda, and had come to the United States in January with jihadist intentions. Nafis was reportedly influenced by al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and the radical publication Inspire.

Nafis believed that he was going to detonate a 1,000 in front of the Federal Reserve Building, located on Liberty Street, and had recorded a video message prior to the attack saying that he intended to deal a major blow to the American economy.

After receiving the false bomb, he drove with the FBI agent from a warehouse outside the city to the Federal Reserve building. The two parked the van in front of the bank and walked to the nearby Millennium Hotel, according to WABC.  At the hotel, he recorded a video where he said: ‘We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom.’