A Bangladeshi man (Mohammed Coefficient: 100%) was arrested for plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Manhattan. He thought he had prepared a 1,000-pound bomb to do the job, but it was actually a fake supplied by an FBI informant, and posed no danger to anyone. Among the other possible targets of the would-be bomber were President Obama and the New York Stock Exchange.
In other news, the latest statistics indicate that one out of every four births in the UK is to an immigrant mother.
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