“I called the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago”, said Mohammad Rahami, the father of bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, speaking outside the family’s restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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The official, and other United States security sources, said Rahami underwent additional security screening upon returning from overseas but passed on every occasion. But they check it nearly two months.
The FBI said it does not yet know why the Chelsea neighborhood was targeted.
The man believed to be responsible for bombings in NY and New Jersey hated gay people and American culture, according to the mother of his young daughter.
Rahami was arrested not far from Elizabeth, where his family lived above their chicken restaurant. The reference has been updated.
Rahami provided investigators with a wealth of clues that led to his arrest just 50 hours after the first explosion, according to three law enforcement officials.
The father’s reported comments that Ahmad was a terrorist came about following a domestic dispute in the Rahami household, in which the bombing suspect was accused of stabbing his brother.
Ahmad Rahami is suspected of planting a number of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) throughout the tri-state area, beginning with the failed bombing of a charity 5K run in Seaside Park, New Jersey and continuing in Chelsea, Manhattan and Elizabeth, New Jersey.
President Obama has said there is no known link between the bombings and an earlier knife attack in Minnesota in which ten people were injured.
– Rahami started talking to law enforcement this morning.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was wounded in a gun battle with Linden, New Jersey, police that erupted when he was discovered sleeping in a bar doorway.
The 28-year-old Rahami, a naturalized US citizen born in Afghanistan, lived in Elizabeth, where a bomb exploded early Monday while being examined by a police robot. In focus are his many trips to Pakistan, where he spent a year in one stretch.
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Federal prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Afghan-American man with using a weapon of mass destruction and other charges in connection with this weekend’s bombing in Manhattan. They said they lifted his DNA and fingerprints from the unexploded pressure cooker bomb.
