“They don’t get scared”, he said.
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An officer went to investigate and recognised him as Rahami.
NEW YORK (AP) – The man suspected of planting bombs in a New York neighborhood and a New Jersey seaside town may have aimed to inflict carnage incognito, but he didn’t succeed for long in concealing his identity.
The officials, after screening the surveillance camera videos, have arrested one suspect – Ahmad Khan Rahami.
In Linden, a bar owner called police yesterday morning to report a vagrant sleeping on his front steps, and the responding officer recognized him as Ahmad Khan Rahami after seeing his face on an online wanted poster, police said.
“One story is that he had a wife in Pakistan, he was very upset that he couldn’t bring his wife back”, NY.
Authorities are feverishly digging into the background of an Afghan immigrant who is reportedly not cooperating with investigators after being arrested following a gunfight with police who quickly spotted him as the man wanted for a series of bombings here and in NY. Based on the information we have now, we have every reason to believe this was an act of terror. No one was injured and the other devices were disarmed without incident.
An explosion, later termed as “an intentional act”, injured 29 people in New York’s Chelsea on September 17.
An unexploded pressure-cooker bomb was found streets away.
Rahami has a criminal record and his family had clashed with officials and police in Elizabeth, New Jersey, over the operation of their fried chicken restaurant. As robots worked to dismantle them, one exploded suddenly.
When asked if he believed his son was responsible for the attack, Mr Rahami was initially lost for words.
But, with Rahami as a named suspect, police descended on his family home in Elizabeth. That’s what’s so scary. “Once they picked up the bag, they seemed incredulous they had actually picked this up off the street, and they walked off with it”, said Robert Boyce, NYPD chief of detectives. They were just Americanized. “You would have never known”.
A law enforcement official says fingerprints and surveillance video helped investigators identify him as the man suspected of setting off bombs in the NY area over the weekend.
William Sweeney, the FBI’s assistant director in NY, said there were no indications Rahami was on any law enforcement radar at the time of the bombings.
They’re also looking into whether he had any ties to terror groups.
GWEN IFILL: In the wake of the attacks and with hundreds of world leaders converging on the city, police and bomb-sniffing dogs swarmed New York’s Penn Station today. An additional 1,000 officers were deployed.
He said that the agency will continue its investigation and find out more about Rahami’s presence on the social networks, but authorities would not provide more details at this time because the investigation is in progress.
As a police vehicle pulled up at the traffic light in front of the shop, the man fired about six shots at the cruiser, then continued down the street with police following him, Bilinskas said.
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The reference to Awlaki, who was killed in 2011 and has been a source of inspiration for many terrorist attacks, appears to help bolster an emerging view among investigators that the weekend attacks weren’t ISIS-inspired.
