Terror Suspect Used Facebook to Plan Attack

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi man in the United States on a student visa and now charged with plotting a bomb attack on the Federal Reserve building in New York City, used Facebook as well as other methods to plan his attack.

Nafis was arrested Wednesday after attempting to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb in a vehicle parked next to his target. However, the explosive device was a fake provided by one of two undercover FBI agents who had been posing as jihadists connected with al-Qaeda.

Law enforcement quickly arrested Nafis and he appeared in court several hours later.

According to court documents, at least some of the early co…
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