Suspect believed that “a lot of people would support” the attack. “They will say to themselves ‘what this guy is doing makes sense’ because these people are stealing from us,” he told US police
The United States investigative police, the FBI, arrested an American suspected of planning to plant a homemade bomb this week in front of the New York Stock Exchange to “reset the State”.
According to a complaint filed in the southeastern US state of Florida on Wednesday, the arrest followed a ten-month investigation of Harun Abdul-Malik Yener by undercover FBI agents.
The man, born in the United States in 1994, shared plans for the attack with the agents, who posed as members of a militia, and also tasked them with finding the explosives needed to build a homemade bomb.
According to the complaint, Yener explained to agents that he had sought to join “an anti-government militia” and had also considered joining the armed fundamentalist group Islamic State in Iraq in 2015.
The suspect, a resident of South Florida, allegedly chose the New York stock exchange as his target for an attack that was supposed to take place the week before Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on November 28, to “wake people up ”.
Yener thought “a lot of people would support” the attack. “They will say to themselves ‘what this guy is doing makes sense’ because these people are stealing from us,” the man said, according to the complaint.
The suspect also claimed that he had experience in making rockets and bombs and published videos on the YouTube platform on how to make explosives and fireworks with household items.
FBI searches of a storage unit revealed plans and electronic equipment intended to build a homemade bomb.
The suspect began searching the Internet for information on how to build a device of this type in 2017 and exchanged messages and emails with other people on this topic.
Yener had a history of threats and was fired in 2023 from a restaurant in Coconut Creek, Florida, after threatening his supervisor with a mass shooting.
