21-year-old Bangladeshi man has been arrested by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and subsequently charged with attempting to blow up the New York Federal Reserve Bank. He was allegedly going to bomb it with what he understood to be a 1 000 pound (453 kilogram) bomb, however, the plan came to an abrupt halt by an undercover sting operation.

Now Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis is facing charges of allegedly attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction to bomb up the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Additionally, he is charged with allegedly trying to provide information and support to al-Qaeda. This information has been provided by the US Department of Justice in a statement. The public however is said to never have been in danger. The Federal Reserve has not yet commented.

"Nafis, who reported having overseas connections to al-Qaeda, attempted to recruit individuals to form a terrorist cell inside the United States," the prosecutor's office said in the statement quoted by AFP.

"Nafis also actively sought out Al-Qaeda contacts within the United States to assist him in carrying out an attack. Unbeknownst to Nafis, one of the individuals he attempted to recruit was actually a source for the FBI."

It is said that Nafis was going to commit a suicide attack if his plan was defaulted. He got the bomb in the ban and equipped with phony explosives he drove to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. He allegedly declared that "'We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom.'"