Comedy of Terrors

The FBI finally found someone who had the idea of being a terrorist all on his own:

New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, came to the U.S. on a student visa. Nafis was arrested after he allegedly tried to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-lbs. bomb outside the New York Federal Reserve bank on Liberty Street on Wednesday....

Nafis, a Bangladeshi national with connections to al-Qaeda, arrived in the U.S. last January with the intent to recruit individuals to form a terror cell, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Eastern District of New York.  Kelly added Nafis' ties to al-Qaeda will be "investigated as we go forward."

Apparently he used Facebook to assemble his cell, little imagining that agents for the Joint Terrorism Task Force could be among the recruits, which argues that he might not be too bright. And then as usual the Feds had to build his fake bomb, target it, and generally take care of everything until it was ready for him to make his video and press the button, whereupon they arrested him.

Still, it's progress over the last several cases, in which the suspect couldn't even fantasize about it without the Bureau's help. Maybe next time they'll catch somebody capable of causing some damage as well.