FBI 'stings' under scrutiny after NY bomb plot arrest

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The arrest of a Bangladeshi immigrant Wednesday in New York on charges of attempting to blow up the US Federal Reserve building has reopened controversy about sting operations, fake terror plots scripted and funded by the FBI.


US officials arrested a Bangladeshi immigrant on Wednesday for attempting to detonate a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in New York, the latest in a series of FBI sting operations that critics say lure vulnerable people into fictitious terror plots.

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old Bangladeshi who was in the United States on a student visa, was arrested after he attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb.

The explosives material was inert and the mobile phone that he believed served as a detonator had, in fact, been rigged by the authorities.


Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, of Bangladesh, travelled to the US on a student visa.