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FBI Entraps Muslims into Terror
The arrest of a Bangladeshi man in an FBI sting operation on charges of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve has revived a controversy over FBI tactics of entrapping muslims into terror acts.
“The big question is, would these people have been able to do these plots without the help of the FBI? Some have even been calling it entrapment," commented FRANCE 24.
This could even be seen as "creating terrorism".
The FBI on Wednesday arrested a young Bangladeshi on charges of plotting to detonate the New York Federal Reserve Bank.
Federal authorities say Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, plotted to blow up the building with a 1,000-pound (450-kg) bomb.
"Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure," said Mary Galligan, FBI acting assistant director-in-charge.
"The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences."
According to the criminal complaint, Nafis traveled to the United States in January 2012, Reuters reported.
Once in New York, he claimed to be in contact with al-Qaeda members overseas, although federal agents found no evidence that he was working for al-Qaeda or that he was directed by the organization, according to a US official who declined to be named.
Nafis considered several targets for his attack, including the New York Stock Exchange and a high-ranking government official, whom the US official identified as Obama.
In the end, the criminal complaint said, Nafis decided to focus on the Federal Reserve Bank in lower Manhattan, which stands like a limestone and sandstone fortress atop what is believed to be one of the world's largest stockpiles of gold.
To create a cell to help him carry out the bombing, Nafis began to seek out recruits, eventually bringing on board an undercover agent working for the FBI.
The two met on Wednesday morning and traveled by van to a New York warehouse, where Nafis assembled what he thought was a 1,000 pound bomb, before driving to the Federal Reserve Bank, among the most secure and guarded buildings in Manhattan.
After parking near the bank, Nafis walked to a nearby hotel and recorded a video statement in which he said, "We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom," according to the FBI.
Nafis was arrested in the hotel as he repeatedly attempted to detonate the inert bomb, the FBI said.
Entrapment
New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, whose department was part of the operation, objected to suggestions that Nafis' plans were crude and bumbling.
"I don't see how you characterize (him as) unsophisticated, I mean he was arrested, but he clearly had the intent to create mayhem here," Kelly told reporters.
The fake FBI operations have stirred uproar inside the United States over entrapping young people, who posed no real threat to the US security.
Other FBI sting operations this year have netted at least one foreign suspect, as well as some from the United States.
In February, a 29-year-old Moroccan man was arrested near the US Capitol wearing a vest he believed was full of al-Qaeda-supplied explosives, and charged in an attempted suicide bombing of Congress.
Five self-described anarchists in the Cleveland area were arrested in May and accused of plotting to blow up a four-lane highway bridge.
An undercover FBI agent had sold the men inoperable detonators and plastic explosives.
The fake FBI operations have triggered criticism from American Muslims, estimated at between six to eight million.
In 2009, Muslim groups threatened to severe ties with law enforcement authorities over the FBI’s sending informants into mosques to trap Muslim worshippers.
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