#MyJihad in New York: Muslim pleads guilty to jihad plot to bomb the Federal Reserve

“I no longer support violent jihad,” he says. Too late he has come to realization that jihad is just stopping and smelling the roses, as Hamas-linked CAIR's cynical and deceptive campaign to whitewash the word would have us believe.

"Fed Bomb Plotter Pleads Guilty to Terror Charge in N.Y[.]," by Christie Smythe for Bloomberg, February 7 (thanks to David):

A Bangladeshi man arrested in October after attempting to bomb the New York Federal Reserve pleaded guilty to a terrorism charge.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, entered his plea today before U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in Brooklyn, New York, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Nafis, who had come to the U.S. on a student visa, tried to detonate what he believed to be a 1,000-pound bomb at the Fed in Lower Manhattan, according to prosecutors.

The explosives were fake and the plot was part of an undercover operation, according to court papers.

Nafis told the court he was responsible for the plan and didn’t blame federal agents.

“I no longer support violent jihad,” he said. “I deeply and sincerely regret my involvement in this case.”

He may be sentenced to 30 years to life in prison, the judge said.

Nafis earlier was indicted on both a charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Heidi Cesare, a lawyer for Nafis, said after the hearing that her client “pled guilty because he is guilty, and he wants to take responsibility for what he did.”...

That's refreshing and unusual honesty coming from a jihadi's lawyer. Contrast that to the ongoing courtroom jihad being pursued by the attorneys for would-be jihad mass murderer Mohamed Mohamud.

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duh_swami | February 7, 2013 3:30 PM | Reply

If a jihadist feels guilty about fighting for Allah's causes and quits, does that make him an apostate?

exsgtbrown | February 7, 2013 4:28 PM | Reply

add him to the growing list....

Naser Abdo, the would-be second Fort Hood jihad mass murderer; and Khalid Aldawsari, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Lubbock, Texas; and Muhammad Hussain, the would-be jihad bomber in Baltimore; and Mohamed Mohamud, the would-be jihad bomber in Portland; and Faisal Shahzad, the would-be Times Square jihad mass-murderer; and Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the Arkansas military recruiting station jihad murderer; and Naveed Haq, the jihad mass murderer at the Jewish Community Center in Seattle; and Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, the would-be jihad mass murderer in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Ahmed Ferhani and Mohamed Mamdouh, who hatched a jihad plot to blow up a Manhattan synagogue; and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the would-be Christmas airplane jihad bomber; and many others like them who have plotted and/or committed mass murder in the name of Islam and are motivated by its texts and teachings — all in the U.S. in the last couple of years.

boneshack | February 7, 2013 6:46 PM | Reply

"That's refreshing and unusual honesty coming from a jihadi's lawyer."

Yes, unusual. But I will give her credit for using the correct past tense form of "pled" instead of that horrid MSM contruct "pleaded".

PGuud | February 7, 2013 10:48 PM | Reply

“I no longer support violent jihad,” he said.

Yes--because violence brings attention to this (from the Akram/Brotherhood "Explanatory Memorandum"):

Four: The Process of Settlement:
- In order for Islam and its Movement to become "a part of the homeland" in which it lives, "stable" in its land, "rooted" in the spirits and minds of its people, "enabled" in the live of its society and has firmly-established "organizations" on which the Islamic structure is built and with which the testimony of civilization is achieved, the Movement must plan and struggle to obtain "the keys" and the tools of this process in carry out this grand mission as a "Civilization Jihadist" responsibility which lies on the shoulders of Muslims and - on top of them - the Muslim Brotherhood in this country.

The nonviolent approach to their grand scheme is much more effective, as everyone knows.

Why are many of us so damn soft on Muslims? They propagate Islam. Without the Muslim, Al-Qur'an is kindling.

Never trust a Muslim: not this Muslim; not that Muslim; not any Muslim. Screw each and every one of them for espousing the most pernicious ideology in the history of humankind. May they rot along with their mass-murdering, child-molesting, false prophet.

Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

DP111 | February 8, 2013 3:44 PM | Reply

As an aside, is the building that is printing money by the tens (hundreds?) of billions, thus destroying the life savings of hundreds of millions of Americans, and others worldwide.

Thomas Pellow | February 8, 2013 5:49 PM | Reply

Meanwhile in Bangladesh: huge rally against jihadists -

"Huge Bangladesh rally seeks death penalty for war crimes"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21383632

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