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Yener also told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the stock exchange in Lower Manhattan would be a popular site to target. According to court documents, he told undercover FBI agents that the stock exchange, we want to hit it, because it will wake people up.
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with plotting 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. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs, Florida, was charged with attempting to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce. The FBI began investigating Yener in February based on a tip that he was storing bomb-making plans in a storage unit. According to the FBI, they found bomb-making diagrams, several clocks with timers, electronic circuit boards and other electronics that could have been used to create an explosive device. According to the FBI, he had also searched for things related to bomb making online since 2017.
Yener also told undercover FBI agents that he wanted to detonate the bomb the week before Thanksgiving and that the stock exchange in Lower Manhattan would be a popular site to target. According to court documents, he told undercover FBI agents that the stock exchange, we want to hit it, because it will wake people up. According to court documents, in the previous month, he had rewired two-way radios so that they could serve as remote triggers for an explosive device and planned to wear a disguise while planting the explosives.
Yener made his first court appearance Wednesday afternoon and will be detained while awaiting trial. According to court documents, he was known to post videos on YouTube channels about making explosives and fireworks from household items and had a history of making threats.
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