A Bangladeshi man with alleged al-Qaeda links was arrested Wednesday in New York for allegedly plotting to destroy the city's Federal Reserve building with a 1,000 pound bomb, officials said.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was arrested in Manhattan after he tried to detonate what he thought was a live bomb, but was actually a dummy provided as part of a sting operation, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said.
His associates were actually undercover officers who arrested him at the scene.
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"I can confirm that there was an arrest this morning in a terrorism case," the source, who asked not to be identified, told AFP. "The public was never at risk."
There were no other suspects in the alleged plot, reports said.
The FBI knew about the planned attack for months, the NY Post said.
