A Florida man who federal law enforcement allege planned to detonate a bomb this week at the New York Stock Exchange was arrested Wednesday after an undercover FBI agent recorded him saying, “I feel like Bin Laden.”
American Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, was charged with attempting to use an explosive device to damage or destroy a building used in interstate commerce, according to charging documents filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Florida.
Yener, of Coral Springs, a city about 20 miles northwest of Fort Lauderdale, planned to set off a bomb outside the stock exchange on Wall Street in Manhattan, according to the 25-page criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent.
“It’ll be like a small nuke went off,” court records show Yener told undercover FBI agents. “Anything outside” the building “will be wiped out… anything inside there would be killed.”
Although a motive was not specifically clear, an FBI agent…
