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At the Missouri college where Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis enrolled, a classmate said he often remarked that true Muslims don't believe in violence... That image seemed startlingly at odds with the Bangladesh native's arrest in an FBI sting this week on charges of trying to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York with what he thought was a 1,000-pound car bomb.

Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.

F.B.I. officials said that the Somali-born suspect thought he was detonating a car bomb in a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland on Friday night, when in fact he had been set up in a sting operation.

U.S. authorities were searching two locations in the Boston area in connection with the attempted bombing in Times Square on May 1, an FBI spokesman said on Thursday.