Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, is the son of a middle class Dhaka banker, who, according to the AP, reacted to news of his son's terrorist aspirations with disbelief. Following an unsuccessful period as a student at the private North South University in Dhaka, Nafis moved to the U.S. on a student visa in January. He had been living recently in Jamaica, Queens. CBS reported Thursday that Nafis "had made statements that he was in contact with a Qaida network before he arrived in the United States...[and] allegedly said he admired the radical U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki." Al-Awlaki was controversially executed by a U.S. drone strike without due process usually afforded to U.S. citizens.

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