The U.S. authorities on Thursday arrested a suspected terrorist, a member of al Qaeda group, who was attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City's Financial District.
According to local media, the suspect Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, a Bangladeshi national, allegedly parked a van filled with what he believed to be explosives outside the building in Lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange.
He was arrested after he tried to detonate the “bomb'' with a cell phone.
The media also quoted officials as saying that there was never any danger to the public.
Nafis faces charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and providing material support to al-Qaeda.
The media also quoted officials as saying that Nafis allegedly threatened to kill a “high-ranking government official'' a
U.S. official who was briefed on the case told ABC News that the target was Obama.
According to the criminal complaint filed today in a Federal Court in Brooklyn, Nafis came to the U.S. in January with the hope of conducting a terror attack on American soil.
It said the suspect tried to recruit others to form a terror cell inside the U.S., and actively sought out al Qaeda contacts.
The media said during the summer the would-be terror bomber met a man on the internet who he thought was a fellow aspiring terrorist but was actually an undercover FBI agent.
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