Man, this could have been bad.
Dude was going to blow up the New York Stock Exchange. Luckily, his plan was foiled by the FBI. Even though oftentimes I bash on them, they did their job here, and if they hadn't, who knows what would've happened.
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Florida man[Muslim jihadi] was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to ‘reboot' the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI …
The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip that he was storing ‘bombmaking schematics' in a storage unit. They found bomb-making sketches, many watches with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could be used for building explosive devices, according to the FBI. He had also searched online for things related to bomb-making since 2017, according to the FBI …
In the last month, he had rewired two-way radios so that they could work as remote triggers for an explosive device and planned to wear a disguise when planting the explosives, according to court documents.
Believe it or not, this dude had a YouTube channel where he posted advice on how to build explosives.
(Some free advice for you terrorists out there: Don't ever have a YouTube channel where you teach people how to build explosives.)
Yener said he felt "like Bin Laden." From CBS 12:
Yener planned to wear a disguise when he planted the explosive device outside the building and recorded a message to be delivered to the press about why he did it. The DOJ says Yener anticipated the impact of the explosion would be 'like a small nuke went off' and "'[a]nything outside" the building "will be wiped out'" and "anything inside would be killed.'"
"A small nuke."
The undercover FBI employee gave a microphone to Yener for him to record his 'demand statement' that he intended to send to NBC News the day of or the day after the planned attack, where he said 'I feel like Bin Laden', according to documents.
Another interesting tidbit from the AP because we live in a fascinating world with interesting mashups:
He was also part of a small group that tried to join the far-right anti-government group the ‘Boogaloo Bois' and extremist group the Proud Boys but was denied membership because he said he wanted ‘to pursue martyrdom,' according to court documents.
This man was not messing around. Luckily, we were able to stop him before his plan could take shape.
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