NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi man snared in an FBI terror sting considered targeting President Barack Obama before settling on a car bomb attack on the Federal Reserve in New York City, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press on Thursday. RELATED: Terrorist Suspect Arrested For Allegedly Plotting To Attack NYC Federal Reserve Building[1] The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation and talked to the AP on condition of anonymity, stressed that the suspect never got beyond the discussion stage. In a September meeting with an undercover agent posing as a fellow jihadist, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis explained he chose the Federal Reserve as his car bomb target “for operational reasons,” according to a criminal complaint. Nafis also indicated he knew that choice would “cause a large number of civilian casualties, including women and children,” the complaint said. He had also considered the New York Stock Exchange as a target. The bomb was ...
