{"id":2965,"date":"2012-10-19T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T05:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2012-10-19T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T05:55:27","slug":"fed-bomber-not-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2965","title":{"rendered":"Fed bomber? Not my son!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank yesterday said his son was the victim of a “racist conspiracy”.<\/p>\n

Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n

“This is nothing but a conspiracy. There is still a racist conspiracy there,” his father Quazi Mohammad Ahsanullah told reporters in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.<\/p>\n

“The intelligence of the US is playing with a mere boy whom we sent for higher study. The allegation against my son is not true at all. He could not even drive a car. How was he caught with a van?”<\/p>\n

Nafis appeared in a Brooklyn court on Wednesday. The criminal complaint against him said he had entered the US in January and that he had said he was in contact with members of al-Qaeda overseas.<\/p>\n

The complaint said he had travelled by van with a man to a New York warehouse where Nafis assembled what he thought was a 450kg bomb.<\/p>\n

The man he believed to be an accomplice was, in fact, an undercover agent working for the FBI and the explosives were not in working condition.<\/p>\n

He was arrested later in a hotel near the bank.<\/p>\n

Nafis had been a business student at North South University, a prestigious private institution in Bangladesh, before leaving to study computer science in the US.<\/p>\n

His father, a senior vice-president of a private bank, said Nafis was religious but not a fanatic. He told reporters he had asked the government for help “so that our son will not fall victim to an arranged story”.<\/p>\n

“He fell into a trap,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The father of a Bangladeshi man accused of attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank yesterday said his son was the victim of a “racist conspiracy”. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide … Continue reading “Fed bomber? Not my son!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1888,1883,1887,1882,1885,1886,1884],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-al-qaeda","tag-bomber","tag-fed-bomber","tag-new-york-federal-reserve-bank","tag-quazi-mohammad-ahsanullah","tag-quazi-mohammad-rezwanul-ahsan-nafis","tag-wmd"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fedbomber.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}