Obama Was Allegedly Considered As A Target In Terrorism Plot

[Onkel Neal]

Well, it appears the FBI did their job.

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was a terrible student in his native Bangladesh, and his middle-class parents say he persuaded them to send him off to study in the U.S. as a way of improving his job prospects.

At the Missouri college where he enrolled, one classmate said Nafis often remarked that true Muslims don't believe in violence – an image that seemed startlingly at odds with Nafis' arrest in an FBI sting this week on charges of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York with what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb.

"I can't imagine being more shocked about somebody doing something like this," said Jim Dow, a 54-year-old Army veteran who rode home from class with Nafis twice a week. "I didn't just meet this kid a couple of times. We talked quite a bit, sir. And this doesn't seem to be in character."

Federal investigators, often accused by defense attorneys of entrapping and leading would-be terrorists along, said the 21-year-old Nafis made the first move over the summer, reaching out for accomplices and eventually contacting a government informant, who then went to federal authorities.

They said he also selected his target, drove the van loaded with dummy explosives up to the door of the bank, and tried to set off the bomb from a hotel room using a cellphone he thought had been rigged as a detonator.

During the investigation, he and the informant corresponded via Facebook and other social media, talked on the phone and met in hotel rooms, according to a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Nafis spoke of his admiration for Osama bin Laden, talked of writing an article about his plot for an al-Qaida-affiliated magazine, and said he would be willing to be a martyr but preferred to go home to his family after carrying out the attack, authorities said. And he also talked about wanting to kill President Barack Obama and bomb the New York Stock Exchange, a law enforcement official said.

I wonder how much of this is Muslim terrorist and how much is Stupid Kid?

Anyway, doesn't really matter, I guess. If the evidence stands up in court, he's gonna be older than me when he gets out.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Well, it appears the FBI did their job.



I wonder how much of this is Muslim terrorist and how much is Stupid Kid?

Anyway, doesn't really matter, I guess. If the evidence stands up in court, he's gonna be older than me when he gets out.

Either way, idiot or scum, people like these shouldn't be out on the streets.

[AVGWarhawk]

I wonder how much of this is Muslim terrorist and how much is Stupid Kid?

More stupid kid I would guess with added loner issue.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I wonder how much of this is Muslim terrorist and how much is Stupid Kid?

Nafis told the undercover agent:
"What I really mean, is that I don’t want something that’s like, small. I just want something big. Something very big. Very very very very big, that will shake the whole country, that will make America, not one step ahead, change of policy, and make one step ahead, for the Muslims… that will make us one step closer to run the whole world…"

“All I had in my mind are how to destroy America… I came up to this conclusion that targeting America’s economy is most efficient way to draw the path of obliteration of America as well as the path of establishment of [Caliphate].”

Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...rica-s-Economy

Doesn't sound like a Stupid Kid to me, sounds more like a believer.

[Betonov]

How is blowing up the federal reserves building going to destroy the US economy ???

Believer, stupid kid... both and a retarded idiot to top it of

[mookiemookie]

When I first heard about them catching someone who tried to blow up the Federal Reserve, I thought for a minute that Ron Paul had finally snapped.

[soopaman2]

Originally Posted by Betonov

How is blowing up the federal reserves building going to destroy the US economy ???

Believer, stupid kid... both and a retarded idiot to top it of

Exactly.

You have to kill the idea, not the building.

That is where the 9-11 terrorists messed up, they only strengthened our resolve.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Exactly.

You have to kill the idea, not the building.

And this is why I believe this was silly kid stuff.

[Oberon]

Haven't seen Yubba in a while...

[u crank]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Haven't seen Yubba in a while...

[August]

C'mon these are people who can't understand why shooting a 14 year old girl would be looked down upon.

[Red October1984]

Does it say which Missouri College he was at? I hope it wasnt one close to me or family.

[TLAM Strike]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Does it say which Missouri College he was at? I hope it wasnt one close to me or family.

Nafis attended Southeast Missouri State University...

more interesting what he was studying...

...during the spring semester, which ended in May, in pursuit of a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity...

That should be a:

right there.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/1...n_1978596.html

[the_tyrant]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Exactly.

You have to kill the idea, not the building.

That is where the 9-11 terrorists messed up, they only strengthened our resolve.

Hey, Goldeneye seemed like a pretty good economic terrorist idea to be honest.

thank god this guy isn't that skilled/well connected.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by TLAM Strike

That should be a:

right there.

I'll say. Cybersecurity isn't even a real major. His family wasted a lot of money sending him over here for that.