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August 12, 2013

Man Sentenced to 30 Years for Bid to Attack Federal Reserve with Fake Bomb 
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A 22-year-old Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison
for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York City with
a fake bomb as part of an elaborate FBI sting. Quazi Nafis pleaded
guilty to terrorism charges in February. His case drew claims of
government entrapment after the FBI supplied the inert explosives, the
van used to carry them, the detonator and even the storage facility
where an agent helped Nafis assemble the fake bomb.

 

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