officials say he parked a van filled with what he believed were explosives outside the federal reserve building and then tried to detonate those explosives by a remote control. >> clearly if you read the complaint what it shows is this individual came here for the purpose of doing a terrorist act. he came here in january, of this year, he gets a student visa. under the pretext of being a student at a college in missouri. and he comes here with, again, the avowed purpose of committing some sort of jihad here in the united states. >> but the police commissioner says the public was never in any danger since the informant was part of the plot. well, the admitted mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has given a defiant lecture about government hypocrisy.