The identity of the culprit has been revealed. 21-year-old suspect, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, attempted to detonate a 1,000-pound bomb in front of the Federal Reseverve building, but the device was a fake supplied to him by undercover FBI agents. click below to find out more as this story keeps developing.

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UPDATE:

The supposed explosives posed no threat to the public, the FBI said.
A criminal complaint accuses Nafis of having overseas connections to Al Qaeda and travelling to the U.S. in January to recruit individuals to form a terrorist cell and conduct an attack on American soil. But one of Nafis’ potential recruits was an FBI source, who alerted authorities, the FBI said.
A federal law enforcement official told Fox News that there was no evidence Nafis was directed by Al Qaeda to carry out this attack, though he appears to have thought he was working for the terrorist group.
At one point, according to criminal complaint, Nafis told undercover agents: “I don’t want something that’s like, small. I just want something big. Something very big … that will shake the whole country, that will make America, not one step ahead, change of policy, and make one step ahead, for the Muslims … that will make us one step closer to run the whole world.”

A man was taken into custody today for attempting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank. The NYPD and FBI worked together to set up a sting operation that eventually led to the arrest of this man. Click below to find out more.

According to reports, the man was arrested after he attempted to detonate a a van filled what he thought to be explosives outside the fortress-like structure on Liberty Street. The suspect had been working on the plan with FBI agents he thought to be co-conspirators for months, according to the Post report.

“This morning, after parking the van, he went to the Millennium Hotel near the World Trade Center, where he called the cell phone in the van,” according to the Post. “It did not explode, and he was arrested by federal agents.”

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