Estoy poniendo el atentado terrorista aqui por no ser directamente politico..

El arresto del Sr. Nafis arroja mas preguntas que respuestas... Como es que este individuo llego a obtener una visa de estudiante? Cuanto escrutinio se le da a personas de ciertos origenes y ciertas ideologias inconsistentes con el modo de vida de nuestra Nacion? Ciertamente el FBI le salvo las ancas al DHS... y su subsidiaria de visas para terroristas, er, digo, estudiantes.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-17/fbi-says-man-arrested-in-plot-to-bomb-new-york-fed.html

New York Fed Alleged Target of FBI Bomb Plot Sting

By Christie Smythe and Chris Dolmetsch - Oct 18, 2012 A Bangladeshi man was arrested on charges he plotted to bomb the New York Federal Reserve in lower Manhattan as part of a sting operation by federal authorities who provided the suspect with fake explosives.

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested yesterday in an undercover effort after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb, according to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Located at 33 Liberty Street, the bank is just a few blocks from the site of the former twin towers at the World Trade Center, which were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“Terrorists have tried time and again to make New York City their killing field,” New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kellysaid yesterday in a statement, adding that the city has faced 15 terror plots since the 2001 attacks. “Vigilance is our watchword now and into the foreseeable future.”

Some of the alleged terror plots, like this one, were disrupted by sting operations or informants, including a plan to bomb the Herald Square subway station in Manhattan in 2004, a 2007 conspiracy to destroy fuel tanks and pipelines at John F. Kennedy International Airport and a scheme to bomb synagogues in the Bronx in 2009.

Terrorism Cases
Almost half of the federal terrorism cases brought in the U.S. from 2009 to September 2011 involved informants, and at least 15 percent of those cases can be considered stings, according to the Terrorism Trial Report Card from the Center on Law and Security at New York University’s School of Law.

Defense lawyers and legal experts have said that such initiatives may constitute entrapment of individuals who were not predisposed to committing a crime. To prevail as a defense, the accused must show they would not have committed the crime without being urged on.

At least 10 terrorism defendants caught in sting operations since the Sept. 11 attacks have presented the entrapment defense in court proceedings, yet it hasn’t been successfully argued in a post-Sept. 11 trial, according to the center’s report, which was published in September 2011.

The government said yesterday that Nafis came to the U.S. in January with the intent to carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, and sought out individuals to assist. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents posed as co-conspirators, the government said.

“It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent,” Mary Galligan, acting head of the FBI’s New York office, said in a statement. “The FBI continues to place the highest priority on preventing acts of terrorism.”

Mass Destruction
Nafis is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and provide material support to the terrorism group al-Qaeda, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, New York. If convicted, he faces a sentence of as long as life in prison, according to the office.

Appearing yesterday in Brooklyn federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Roanne L Mann, Nafis wore a T-shirt and jeans and said little during the proceeding. He didn’t request bail. Heidi Cesare, his court-appointed defense lawyer, declined to comment to reporters after the brief hearing.

Student Visa
Nafis, who came to the U.S. using a student visa and has been living in Queens, New York, told an informant for the FBI in July that he wanted to wage “jihad” and had plans for a terror attack, according to a criminal complaint. He communicated with co-conspirators, including the informant, on the phone and on the social media website Facebook (FB), according to the filing.

After Nafis expressed interest in receiving help from al- Qaeda for his plot, the informant referred the would-be bomber to an undercover FBI agent, who was posing as a member of the group, according to the complaint. At a meeting in September, Nafis told the agent that he hoped his attack would disrupt the presidential elections, according to the complaint.

Before Arrest
Before Nafis was arrested yesterday, he and the agent brought a van loaded with inert explosive materials to the Fed, parked it, and went to a nearby hotel, where Nafis attempted to detonate the bomb using a cell phone, according to the complaint.

“The defendant thought he was striking a blow to the American economy. He thought he was directing confederates and fellow believers,” Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement. “At every turn, he was wrong, and his extensive efforts to strike at the heart of the nation’s financial system were foiled by effective law enforcement.”

Andrea Priest, a spokeswoman for the New York Fed, declined to comment.

The case is U.S. v. Nafis, 1:12-mj-00965, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn).





http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2012/10/17/waging-jihad-with-a-visa/
Waging Jihad with a Visa?.

By Joe Palazzolo

Associated Press
Officers guard the entrance to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.Before Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, a 21-year-old from Bangladesh, allegedly made plans with an FBI informant to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank, he sought guidance on his obligations under Islamic law, according to a criminal complaint.

Mr. Nafis had conversations on Facebook FB +2.01%with the informant and another person, identified in the complaint only as a co-conspirator.

“The three discussed certain Islamic legal rulings that advise that it is unlawful for a person who enters a country with a visa to wage jihad there,” the complaint says. Mr. Nafis told his confidants that he had sought the advice of someone in his native Bangladesh, who said he wasn’t bound by such rulings.

“Accordingly, Nafis indicated that he believed that he was free to continue with his plan to conduct a terrorist attack on U.S. soil,” the complaint says.

We asked University of Washington law professor Clark Lombardi, an expert on Islamic law, about the rulings discussed in the alleged Facebook exchange.

First, he said, they are more accurately described as legal opinions by Islamic scholars. Mr. Lombardi said such opinions are scattered; some are published in newspapers, some are found in books, some are online and still others are passed on through word of mouth.

Offhand, he knew of none that discuss how visas might bear on jihad, and he emphasized that most Muslims would assume at the outset that, visa or no, terrorism “would put their soul in jeopardy.”

The opinions in question could prohibit a Muslim who asks for and is granted permission to enter a sovereign country from attacking his host, Mr. Lombardi said. In any event, Mr. Lombardi said he wasn’t surprised the alleged Facebook conversation took place.

“A Muslim would try to think about all the possible angles that weigh on the morality” of an action, he said. “The fate of their soul for eternity depends on them getting the answer right.”

Mr. Nafis was arrested Wednesday morning after he allegedly attempted to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb inside a van parked at the New York Federal Reserve on Liberty Street.

Oooooooooootro... Una pandilla de extranjeros Terroristas buscaba atacar a ciudadanos...


Feds nab four Southern Calif. men in alleged terror plots

LOS ANGELES Four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans and destroy U.S. targets overseas by joining al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, federal officials said Monday.


The defendants, including a man who served in the U.S. Air Force, were arrested for plotting to bomb military bases and government facilities, and for planning to engage in "violent jihad," FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a release.


A federal complaint unsealed Monday says 34-year-old Sohiel Omar Kabir of Pomona introduced two of the other men to the radical Islamist doctrine of Anwar al-Awlaki, a deceased al Qaeda leader. Kabir served in the Air Force from 2000 to 2001.


The other two — 23-year-old Ralph Deleon of Ontario and 21-year-old Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales of Upland — converted to Islam in 2010 and began engaging with Kabir and others online in discussions about jihad, including posting radical content to Facebook and expressing extremist views in comments.


They later recruited 21-year-old Arifeen David Gojali of Riverside.


Authorities allege that in Skype calls from Afghanistan, Kabir told the trio he would arrange their meetings with terrorists. Kabir added the would-be jihadists could sleep in mosques or the homes of fellow jihadists once they arrived in Afghanistan.


The trio made plans to depart in mid-November to carry out plots in Afghanistan, primarily, and Yemen, after they sold off belongings to scrape together enough cash to buy plane tickets and made passport arrangements.


In one online conversation, Santana told an FBI undercover agent that he wanted to commit jihad and expressed interest in a jihadist training camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.


The complaint also alleges the men went to a shooting range several times, including a Sept. 10 trip in which Deleon told a confidential FBI source that he wanted to be on the front lines overseas and use C-4, an explosive, in an attack. Santana agreed.


"I wanna do C-4s if I could put one of these trucks right here with my, with that. Just drive into, like, the baddest military base," Santana said, according to the complaint.


Santana added he wanted to use a large quantity of the explosive. "If I'm gonna do that, I'm gonna take out a whole base. Might as well make it, like, big, ya know," he said.


According to the complaint, at the shooting range that day both Santana and Deleon told a confidential FBI source they were excited about the rewards from becoming a shaheed, which is Arabic for martyr.


Ten days later, during another trip to the shooting range to fire assault-style rifles, Santana told the source he had been around gangs and had no problem taking a life.


On Sept. 30, Gojali was recruited to the plot after he was asked if he had it in him to kill in jihad. Gojali answered, "Yeah, of course."


"I watch videos on the Internet, and I see what they are doing to our brothers and sisters. ... It makes me cry, and it gets like I'm, like, so angered with them," Gojali said, according to the complaint.


The men wiped their Facebook pages of radical Islamist content and photos of themselves in traditional Muslim attire, and devised a cover story that they were going to Afghanistan to attend Kabir's wedding.


Federal authorities said the trio and the FBI's confidential source bought airplane tickets last week for a Sunday flight from Mexico City to Istanbul, with plans to later continue to Kabul.


After Kabir began talking to him about Islam, Santana said he "accepted Islam without knowing anything about it besides it being the truth" and that he believed the religion would help him "fit in and actually be able to fight for something that's right," according to the complaint.


If convicted, each defendant faces a maximum of 15 years in federal prison.


Kabir is being detained in Afghanistan. The other three appeared for a detention hearing Monday in Riverside, and all but Gojali were remanded to federal custody with no bail. His detention hearing was delayed.


After-hours calls left for the men's attorneys were not immediately returned Monday.


A preliminary hearing is slated for Dec. 3, and an arraignment is set for Dec. 5.


Kabir is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan. Santana was born in Mexico, while Deleon was born in the Philippines. Both are lawful, permanent U.S. residents. Gojali is a U.S. citizen.