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Nafis: Conflicting images emerge in US
[Bangla Daily Star] At the Missouri college where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis enrolled, a classmate said he often remarked that true Mohammedans don't believe in violence.That image seemed startlingly at odds with the Bangladesh native's arrest in an FBI sting this week on charges of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York with what he thought was a 1,000-pound car boom. "I can't imagine being more shocked about somebody doing something like this," said Jim Dow, a 54-year-old Army veteran who rode home from class with Nafis twice a week. "I didn't just meet this kid a couple of times. We talked quite a bit. ... And this doesn't seem to be in character." Nafis, who at the time of his arrest Wednesday was working as a busboy at a restaurant in Manhattan, was locked away You have the right to remain silent... without bail. His attorney has not commented on the case, but in other instances where undercover agents and sting operations were used, lawyers have argued entrapment. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, whose department had a role in the arrest as a member of a joint federal-state terrorism ... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ... task force, said the entrapment argument rarely prevails. "You have to be otherwise not disposed to do a crime," Kelly said. "And if it's your intent to do a crime, and somehow there are means made available, then generally speaking, the entrapment defence does not succeed." Posted by: Fred 2012-10-20 |
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