A timeline: How officials say the plot unfolded
Photo credit: Getty Images/AFP | This undated photograph provided by the family of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis shows him at an undisclosed location in Bangladesh.
January -- Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, of Bangladesh, arrives in the United States on a student visa. He lives in Queens.
Early July -- Nafis contacts an FBI informant and tries to recruit the informant into a jihadist cell to carry out a terror attack on U.S. soil.
July 6-8 -- Nafis, the FBI informant and a purported co-conspirator begin to communicate via Facebook.
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