NAFIS: Headed to prison. (AP)
The Bangladeshi man who plotted to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank building last year was sentenced yesterday in Brooklyn federal court to 30 years in prison.
Quazi Nafis, 22, conspired with undercover agents to set off a 1,000-pound bomb with a cellphone detonation system intended to level the financial nerve center.
The diminutive terrorist pleaded for mercy from Judge Carol Bagley Amon and apologized profusely.
“I am ashamed,” he told the court in a beige prison suit. “I’m lost. I tried to do a terrible thing. I alone am responsible for all I’ve done. Please forgive me. “I’m really ashamed that I believed in radical Islam. I know it’s wrong. It’s wrong.”“I am persuaded that the defendant was a serious threat to the safety of New Yorkers and Americans,” she said before handing down her sentence.
But while Judge Amon conceded that Nafis has likely left the terrorist life behind, she blasted him for the lethal plot.