[Bangla Daily Star] A Bangladeshi man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for plotting to bomb the US Federal Reserve in New York.Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 22, apologised to a judge, to his parents and to the city of New York before the sentence was handed down.
Officials said he took dummy explosives to the central bank branch and tried to set them off using a mobile phone.
In February, he pleaded guilty to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and to supporting al-Qaeda.
Nafis told the court he had rejected radical Islam, in a five-page letter to the federal judge.
Lawyers say Nafis was radicalised at university in Bangladesh and suffered from personal issues.
"I'm ashamed. I'm lost," he said. "I tried to do a terrible thing. I alone am responsible for what I've done. Please forgive me."
| It's good he figured this out now, so he can anti-proselytize in prison from his own experience. From a previous article about this case: |