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Florida Man in detention over alleged bomb plot on New York Stock Exchange

POSTED ON November 21, 2024 •   Breaking News      BY Benedicta Bassey
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) logo. Photo: KOMO News

FLORIDA, United States— A Florida man simply identified as Harun Abdul-Malik Yener has been arrested and charged with alleged plotting to set off a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

The US Atorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida indicted Yener of attempting to use an explosive device to destroy a building use in interstate commerce, a court document stated.

According to the FBI report, he Florida man allegedly recorded himself saying “I feel like Osama Bin Laden”a reference to the former al-Qaeda leader responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US.

Federal officials began investigating him in February after receiving a tip that he was keeping bomb-making supplies inside an unlocked storage unit.

Agents searched the facility in Coral Springs and said they discovered “bombmaking sketches, numerous watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics,”court documents said.

A federal public defender in the Southern District of Florida who has been assigned to represent Mr Yener did not immediately respond to a request for comment as at press time.

In the documents, investigators said Mr Yener allegedly told an undercover agent last week that he planned to carry out the attack the week before the Thanksgiving holiday, which takes place on 28 November.

“That would be a great hit,”Mr Yener allegedly told an agent, saying the attack in lower Manhattan would be “hella easy.”

He also allegedly conducted numerous internet searches for how to build bombs, and told agents he planned to wear a disguise during the attack and release a recorded message to the media.

Investigators said Mr Yener’s alleged “motivation for bombing the NYSE was to attain a ‘reboot’ and/or ‘reset’ of the United States government.”

Mr Yener is said to have told undercover agents that the explosion would be ‘like a small nuke went off’ and that ‘anything and nothing outside’ the building ‘will be wiped out’ and ‘anything inside there would be killed.’”

Mr Yener, a resident of southern Florida, is homeless, according to court documents.

He appeared in court on Wednesday for the first time and will be detained while he waits for his trial, according to the Associated Press news agency.

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