Already yesterday’s news. From CNN:
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafism, a 21-year-old man, has been arrested on suspicion of planning to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, federal officials said. Authorities say he attempted to detonate what he believed was a 1,000-pound bomb.
Man attempts to blow up the Federal Reserve in the US, pushes the detonator but finds that the bomb is a dud because the people he had contacted for assistance were from the FBI. The intent was there, just as it was in Bali a decade ago, but because of Homeland Security in the US, the bomb did not go off and hundreds of people were not killed in an explosion. So as I asked yesterday:
Will this story be major or even be reported anywhere else?
My guess was that it would not be a big story. And this morning, there is nothing I can find in any of the local papers I read, and if it’s there, it’s a small story which I may have overlooked. Yesterday I also noted this:
Just checked out The New York Times Online edition. For New York, it is not only an international story of quite some significance, it is not only a national story of quite some significance, but it is even a local story of quite immense significance. And true to form, there it is on its online edition, right underneath this:
Painkiller Crackdown Targets Drug Distributors
That was at 4:15 am in New York. And after that, at 9:00 am US east coast time, to go with the above, I checked out the online pages of The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The LA Times and USA Today. Not one mention other than in USA Today as about the tenth item on the list of stories covered.
Again I ask, why do you suppose that is? Because it’s not good for Obama is the reason that I gave yesterday but there must be more to it than that.
Perhaps the police ask the media not to make a big deal out of it so that they don’t have to deal with copycats who are in it for the attention?
m0nty
19 Oct 12 at 9:18 am
‘Sophisticated plot’ by some recently arrived Bangladeshi kid, doesn’t come across as real credible to me – just another jihadi dreamer?
Chris M
19 Oct 12 at 9:36 am
Perhaps it has more to do with the bomber being a Muslim. Apparently Muslim is a “race” these days and to speak ill of the bomber makes one a “racist”.
Gab
19 Oct 12 at 9:50 am
Steve
The Australian has this one:
Okay – it is an allegation at this stage and yet to be tested in a court of law. But how does any halfway intelligent person rock up to the USA and try to connect with Al-Qaeda in the Belly of the Great Satan – Craig’s List ??
We start with – dumb.
What you also don’t see much of is reports of increasing radicalism in Bangladesh. But I have read reports of a lot of non-Muslim Bangladeshis fleeing into India for safety, and even mob attacks across the border against the refugees camps ( it is a pretty wild and porous border I believe ).
This may be yet another hot spot brewing.
Myrrdin Seren
19 Oct 12 at 10:09 am
It certainly has a run in the local papers here in OZ.
There is a full page piece in today’s Hun (Page 13)
Huckleberry Chunkwot
19 Oct 12 at 10:11 am
“My guess was that it would not be a big story.”
Why should it be? It’s one more in a string of similar stories – stupid murderous fanatic gets set up to fail by the FBI and put away for a long time.
“pushes the detonator but finds that the bomb is a dud because the people he had contacted for assistance were from the FBI.”
You make it sound like it was a happy coincidence. If it’s anything like the others, he would have been spotted very early on (or dobbed in by other Muslims), and gets given a bomb-which-isn’t because he doesn’t have the ability to build his own.
“quite immense significance”
I think whoever called you delusional on the other thread was right. This isn’t some averted disaster, it’s a police sting.
Jarrah
19 Oct 12 at 10:18 am
Quazi Mo D’oh!
blogstrop
19 Oct 12 at 11:17 am
Which locals papers are you talking about. Page 9 of SMH today (which is the first page of the “world” news section). Having said that I agree with Jarrah above. as I said yesterday, this guy is just another nutter in a long list of nutters.
SteveC
19 Oct 12 at 12:35 pm
Yes, that 9/11 caper was pretty nutty.
blogstrop
19 Oct 12 at 1:29 pm
Isn’t it interesting that all the Leftists were criticising Steve for querying if this would be a big story by trying to point out all the places where the story was being reported..
.. and today they are now criticising steve because he is still trying to talk about a story that they now want to pretend is not even note-worthy.
What a difference a day makes in the Leftist mindset.
Brian of Moorabbin
19 Oct 12 at 2:02 pm
And if this were a “tea party”/”right wing extremist” plot to blow up the White House which had been foiled, the Leftards’ reaction would be…?
sdog
20 Oct 12 at 2:54 am
The general US libertarian take on this is that the FBI is creating plots in order to look like they are keeping us safe. It’s not the first time that someone who is clearly not competent to carry out an attack has been supplied with everything he needs, only to discover in the final execution of the plan that he is dealing with materials that can only be used to incriminate him as opposed to causing any real damage.
Brian J. Gladish
20 Oct 12 at 5:56 am