Jihad

Informant: NYPD paid me to 'bait' Muslims

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZOAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A paid informant for the New York Police Department's intelligence unit was under orders to "bait" Muslims into saying inflammatory things as he lived a double life, snapping pictures inside mosques and collecting the names of

Bangladesh probing background of NY terror suspect

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - Police in Bangladesh on Saturday interviewed former teachers and classmates of a Bangladeshi man charged with trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York, investigating whether he had connections with radical groups at home. Dhaka Metropolitan Police official

Terror suspect's family says he asked to go to US

By COLLEEN LONGAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was a terrible student in his native Bangladesh, and his middle-class parents say he persuaded them to send him off to study in the U.S. as a way of improving his job prospects. At the Missouri college where he

Man held in NYC plot to blow up Federal Reserve

By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. Before