The wannabee bomber was caught as part of an FBI sting operation that started when an agent first befriended the man in an online jihadist message board. Unnamed Sources told NBC the man was provided with a device undercover officers told him was a 1,000-pound bomb. The man then loaded the device into a van, which he parked Wednesday morning on Manhattan's Liberty Street, a few feet from the fortress-like Federal Reserve building.
Following the undercover agent's instructions, the man walked a few blocks to the lobby of the Millennium Hilton hotel, which faces directly into the World Trade Center site, and attempted to detonate the "bomb" using a cellphone. But, the "explosives that he allegedly sought and attempted to use had been rendered inoperable by law enforcement and posed no threat to the public," according to the U.S. Attorney's statement.
He was arrested on the spot by federal law enforcement.
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