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Accused NY Fed bomb plotter indicted

An undated Twitter profile picture, left, allegedly shows

Photo credit: AFP PHOTO / TWITTER ; Getty Images | An undated Twitter profile picture, left, allegedly shows Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, from Bangladesh, who was arrested in New York for trying to detonate what he believed was a 1,000 pound bomb at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York building in Lower Manhattan, Department of Justice officials said. (Oct. 17, 2012)

Accused New York Federal Reserve Bank bomb plotter Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was indicted Thursday on charges of attempting to detonate a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida.

Nafis, 21, a Bangladeshi student, was arrested last month after the FBI was tipped to his terrorist ambitions and conducted a weeks-long sting operation. He tried...

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