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Fed Plot Terrorist Sentenced to 30 Years: âI Love Americansâ
Nafis, 21, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
11:20AM Friday
August 9, 2013
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(NEW YORK) -- A âserious stammering problem,â a cheating girlfriend and a lack of âreal friendsâ led a young Bangladeshi man down the path of a terrorist, according to a pre-sentencing letter Quazi Mohammed Nafis wrote to a federal judge in New York.
Nafis, 21, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York called Nafis a âcommitted jihadistâ who came to the United States from Bangladesh on a student visa in January 2012 with âanti-American viewsâ and âwith instructions to make an operable bomb.â
âWithin months of arriving,â prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memorandum, Nafis ârecruited and attempted to recruit like-minded jihadists to help carry out a terrorist attack.â
Nafis was caught in an FBI sting and portrayed himself as a dupe.
âI had no real friends,â he wrote to Judge Carol Bagley Amon, who will hand down his sentence. âSo, when the radical students, who were influential and famous, were being nice to me I fell for them very easily.â
Once he arrived in the U.S., Nafis said he fell into a deep depression in part, he wrote, because of a girl: âThere was a girl in Bangladesh I used to care about and with who I was seeing my future with. I found out that she was cheating on me.â
Nafis was arrested on Oct. 17, 2012, when, according to court records, he assembled what he thought was a thousand-pound explosive device, drove to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Lower Manhattan, recorded a video in which he said his views were shaped by sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki and placed calls to a cellphone -- the method of detonation.
Once in custody, Nafis said he realized he was âblindly following those radical people and the lecturer I was listening to.â
He credited his time in federal custody with changing his view towards the U.S. âI want to say to Your Honor, I love Americans,â he wrote.
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