U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, chief federal prosecutor in NY, said New Jersey officials will probably bring charges against Rahami in the police officers’ shooting while federal authorities weigh charges of their own. A police officer went to investigate and recognized the man as Rahami, police and the mayor said. Authorities said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg. “There’s no better example of that than the people of NY and New Jersey”. But asked whether he thought his son was a terrorist, the father said: “No”.
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AN Afghan immigrant wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town was taken into custody yesterday after a shootout with police in New Jersey, a law enforcement official said.
With Rahami’s arrest, officials said they have no other suspects at large, but cautioned they are still investigating.
The law enforcement officials said at least one of Rahami’s relatives was in the vehicle, which appeared headed toward Kennedy Airport in NY after coming from New Jersey. All 29 people wounded in the Chelsea blast have been released from the hospital. “So let’s not get diverted and distracted by the kind of campaign rhetoric we hear coming from the other side”. Cuomo said both devices were “similar in design”. Masum Chaudry, who manages a Domino’s Pizza near the scene, said the explosion “shook the whole building” and caused “total chaos”.
The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. The window was hit by shrapnel from the terrorist bomb that exploded across the street Saturday evening.
“Someone’s DNA is going to be on some component of that pressure cooker bomb”, Sanderson said. “It is a scary time because you never know when it will happen again”.
Dr. Woo said that the weekend’s incidents have implications for modeling terrorism risk. Cuomo said: “It depends on your definition of terrorism”.
The two USA presidential candidates weighed in on the NY bombing.
In any case, the Federal Bureau of Investigation checked its databases and found nothing connecting Rahami to terror groups, the official said. The Chelsea bombing, coming just days after the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, put the most populous USA city on edge.
Secretary of State John Kerry said in July after the Orlando nightclub massacre and the attack in Nice, France, that the attacks had proved ISIS was “on the run”. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor. Officials said they had already prepared to beef up security, and now they would intensify those efforts.
His comments were echoed by Democratic US presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio receive a briefing from authorities on the explosion in Manhattan, New York and visit residents and businesses around 23rd Street. “So we’ll find out, we’ll put their images out”. We’ll see what it is. He encouraged New Yorkers to go about their day as usual. She added, “I have laid out a comprehensive plan to do that”.
“They looked like they were two gentlemen just strolling up and down Seventh Avenue at the time”. “In this situation, it’s better to just leave!”
The probe started when a pipe bomb blew up Saturday morning in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before a charity race to benefit Marines. No one was hurt.
The attacks came as world leaders prepared to gather at the United Nations in NY for the annual General Assembly.
“A lot of technology involved in this, but a lot of good, old-fashioned police work, too”, New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill said Monday. The explosive material found in New Jersey was a black powder. The suspect was shot dead by an off-duty police officer.
But while condemning what she called “the twisted ideology of terrorists”, she claims groups like IS have been using her Republican rival Donald Trump as a recruiting tool.
Rahami wasn’t on any terror or no-fly watch lists, though he had been interviewed for immigration purposes while travelling between the US and Afghanistan, one of the law enforcement officials said. Jones said he learned about the travel from one of Rahami’s brothers and last saw the suspect about two years ago.
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“I hope this is something else”, he said.
