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Terror plotting: bravado or sincerity?
Terror plotting: bravado or sincerity? - CNN.com
Hummm, he states his sole purpose in coming to the US was to kill and he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000 bomb but CNN questions if this was a "sincere resolve to attack" or "barroom bravado".
Why not call this an attempeted act of terror? What am I missing?
(CNN) -- The man seized for allegedly trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York wanted to "destroy America" and said al Qaeda inspired him. When the FBI got wind of his plans, they brought him down in a sting.
Federal authorities nabbed 21-year-old Quazi Mohammad Rezwanual Ahsan Nafis on Wednesday and said he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb.
Using his cell phone as a trigger, they say, Nafis sat in a hotel near the bank, where "the world's largest accumulation of gold" -- belonging to 36 foreign governments, central banks and international organizations -- is secured in a vault 80 feet beneath the ground floor.
But the device was actually inert and part of an elaborate undercover investigation by federal authorities and New York Police Department detectives.
It's unclear whether Nafis -- who came to the United States on a student visa from Bangladesh -- maintained al Qaeda ties, but authorities say he apparently claimed that the plot was his own and that it was his sole motivation for the U.S. trip.
It's the kind of case, like other terror plots, that gives police and attorneys headaches as they try to tell barroom bravado from a sincere resolve to attack.
Terror plotting: bravado or sincerity? - CNN.com
Hummm, he states his sole purpose in coming to the US was to kill and he tried to detonate what he thought was a 1,000 bomb but CNN questions if this was a "sincere resolve to attack" or "barroom bravado".
Why not call this an attempeted act of terror? What am I missing?