The city was fighting the claims.
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In one section of the book, which was pierced by a bullethole and covered in blood, Rahami wrote of “killing the kuffar”, or unbeliever, according to the official, who agreed to speak about the investigation only on the condition of anonymity.
This item has been corrected to show the father’s last name is Rahami, not Ruhami. Amtrak tweeted around 9:30 a.m. that service on the Northeast Corridor had returned to scheduled operations, though passengers were warned earlier to be “prepared for the possibility of additional cancellations and delays throughout the day”.
Armed FBI agents surrounded a home and fried chicken restaurant in Elizabeth hours after the bombs were found. The FBI had earlier released a wanted poster for the 28-year-old Rahami, who was said to be operating a 2003 Blue Honda Civic bearing NJ registration D63EYB. The second one was placed four blocks north, on West 27th Street, but did not detonate-because two men unwitting disabled it, DNAinfo reported. The man was conscious when he was taken away in an ambulance. In doing so, police said they may have inadvertently disabled it. One was hit by shrapnel and another had high blood pressure.
Investigators will now focus on whether he had co-conspirators and on his motive in allegedly bombing New York’s Chelsea neighborhood and detonating a pipe bomb along the route of a US Marine Corps race.
Authorities have not identified a connection between the attacks in Minnesota, New York, and New Jersey.
Nevertheless, in some ways the 2014 case reflects how local, state and federal law enforcement agencies now seek to share and track threat-related information.
The bombings put NY on edge and fuelled a political debate about US security seven weeks before the presidential election, with candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton again clashing on the threat posed by Islamic militants. An off-duty police officer fatally shot the assailant. Five people were questioned at length, but none have been charged.
Neighbours had complained to Elizabeth officials that the Rahamis’ restaurant was a late-night nuisance, Democratic Elizabeth Mayor Christian Bollwage said.
Authorities are seeking a man for questioning in both bombings.
Investigators are looking into Rahami’s overseas travel, including a visit to Pakistan a few years ago, and want to know whether he received any money or training from extremist organizations. His last known address is listed in Elizabeth, N.J., and the poster warns that Rahami “should be considered armed and unsafe”.
The Chelsea bombing injured 29 people.
New Jersey State Police say that information comes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Authorities are seeking 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized USA citizen from Afghanistan.
Journalist Josh Marshall lives across the street from the site of the explosion but wasn’t there when it happened.
Police have named an Afghan-American in connection with an explosion in Elizabeth, N.J., and the Saturday bombing in NY. No one was injured in that blast. He says Obama will comment publicly “relatively soon”.
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The heightened alert comes as world leaders are gathering Monday for the United Nations General Assembly. As many as five people were detained after the traffic stop, according to ABC News and The New York Post. Two men discovered the backpack, filled with suspicious devices, in a trash can just 500 feet from the train tracks.
