The authorities of USA They arrested a man who said he felt “like Bin Laden» for planning an attack on the New York Stock Exchange (New York Stock Exchange). The arrested person, named Harun Abdul Malik Yener, is accused of participating in a plot to bomb the building that houses the world’s largest stock exchange by monetary volume and the one with the largest number of companies .
According to the detainee, with the attack he wanted to commit before November 18, he would obtain “reboot” the government of the United States. With this plan, he chose the New York Stock Exchange as the target to detonate an improvised device. Before attacking her, he used a disguise to record a message that he intended to send to the media, as he admitted during a undercover FBI agent.
Indeed, Harun Abdul Malik Yener recorded several audios on November 12 with the aim of sending them to the NBC television channel. The idea was that the channel would be able to access this content the same day of the attack or the day after. This same November 12, the accused assured that He “felt like Bin Laden.”
A warehouse with bomb plans
Harun Abdul Malik Yener was the subject of an investigation by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) last February. The FBI had received a notice warning that the inmate was keeping pump plans in a warehouseand that it was not locked. Officers found typical elements of the explosive manufacturing process there after obtaining a search warrant.
The inmate had experience making rockets and bombs, according to the criminal complaint. As Harun Abdul Malik Yener himself admitted, he had attempted to join a “domestic extremist group”. Likewise, the possibility of joining the Islamic State terrorists And fight on their behalf in Iraqin 2015. The reason he finally gave up was that he did not have confidence in the victory of the jihadist group, which he said would not achieve “its objectives”.
