Family trying to contact Nafis thru' lawyers

The family of Qazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, the Bangladeshi youth arrested in New York over an alleged bomb plot, was trying to talk to him through the lawyer the US government appointed for him, reported the BBC Bangla service yesterday.
Nafis's father Quazi Ahsanullah told the BBC Bangla that they had talked to the lawyer who informed them it would take two weeks to complete the process for them to be able to talk to Nafis.
“We have no way to talk to my son. That's why we could not talk to him. We are trying to talk to him through his lawyer,” said Ahsanullah.
It would then be possible to know why Nafis refused to talk to the officials of Bangladesh embassy in the US, he added.
Though Nafis's family is frequently requesting the Bangladesh government to provide him legal assistance, the possibility has become thin due to his refusal to talk to the embassy officials.
Ahsanullah, however, said nobody from the Bangladesh government nor the US embassy in Dhaka contacted with them. “We are looking forward to seeing the Bangladesh government's steps.”
Replying to a query about the FBI's allegation against Nafis, his father termed it a "total conspiracy".
On another question, Ahsanullah told the BBC that he had not even thought of appointing a lawyer personally as he did not know the process and the cost. It would also not be possible for him to bear a huge expense, he added.
NYPD INFORMANT QUITS
Meanwhile, an informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case, reports Reuters.
The informant, a 19-year-old American citizen of Bangladeshi descent, was recruited by the NYPD recently as part of an expansive intelligence-gathering programme the department launched after the al Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001. His assignment was to make contact with suspected Islamic extremists to try to determine if they had any inclinations to engage in violence, the source said.
On October 2, however, the informant, whom the source did not name, posted a message on his personal Facebook page exposing himself as an informant to people he had been in contact with. He declared that he had quit as a police informant.
"I was jus [sic] of pretending to be friends with ya cuz I honestly thought i was fighting terrorism, but let's be real, it's all a f...king scheme," the informant wrote, according to the source. "It was all about the money," he added.
The source said that the informant was not involved in an investigation that led to the arrest of a Bangladeshi man last week in connection with an alleged scheme to bomb the New York Federal Reserve Bank in Lower Manhattan.
New York law enforcement sources have said that the NYPD has used foreign-born confidential informants to uncover several alleged plots by militants, including one involving a possible attack on a subway station at Herald Square and another involving alleged plans to kill US soldiers returning to New York from Afghanistan and Iraq.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne said that candidates to join the force as sworn officers must be US citizens. But he said 20 percent of the department's recruit classes were foreign-born.
"We have a deep bench of foreign speakers whose first languages include Urdu, Arabic, and scores of others," Browne said. "Most CIs [confidential informants] perform invaluable, life-saving service; some don't work out," he added, while declining to comment on the specific current case of the informant who quit.