Rahami’s father, Mohammad, told reporters Tuesday he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation at the time because Rahami “was doing real bad”, having stabbed his brother and hit his mother.
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Mohammed Rahami told reporters outside the family’s restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Mr Rahami said. “But they check nearly two months, they say, “He’s OK, he’s clean, he’s not a terrorist.’ I say ‘OK”.
The FBI acknowledged it had investigated Rahami in 2014, but found no “ties to terrorism” and dropped its inquiry.
After taking him into custody, police started investigating Ahmad Rahami, in order to find out what determined him to commit this weekend’s bombings in NY and New Jersey.
Authorities have identified a suspect in the Manhattan explosion case as a 28-year-old New Jersey resident of Afghan descent who may be armed and risky, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.
Surveillance video shown on CNN and other United States television broadcasters shows a man believed to be Rahami dragging a bag big enough to hold the pressure cooker bomb used in the explosion before Saturday night’s blast in Manhattan. Nor were Afghan intelligence officials aware of either Rahami or his family, said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, director-general of the Afghan National Directorate of Security. “A lot of times, that’s where the investigation starts”, NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said.
“I give law enforcement a lot of credit for less than 24 hours, apprehending Mr. Rahami”, Pence said Tuesday on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor”.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, is shown in Union County, New Jersey, in a US Prosecutor’s Office photo released on September 19, 2016.
– Two sources tell NPR that a note mentioning the Boston Marathon bombers and radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was found near an undetonated bomb found on West 27th Street in New York City.
In the notebook, Mr. Rahami writes of his anger over what he viewed as a US war on Muslims, according to a law-enforcement official.
Mohammad Rahami, wearing a baseball cap and escorted by a detective from the Elizabeth Police Department, quickly got into his vehicle, closed the door and drove away.
According to CNN, investigators recovered a notebook carried by Rahami after a wild Elizabeth, N.J., shootout ended with his Monday arrest. Investigators say Rahami used the online auction site eBay to purchase numerous bomb components, including chemicals found in improvised explosives – like citric acid – circuit boards, and triggering devices.
The FBI followed up with Rahami but he recanted his statements, sources said.
Rahami was captured Monday after being wounded in a gunfight with police in Linden, New Jersey. He also faces a weapons charge.
Initially, a garbage can explosion at a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, New Jersey, seemed to be an isolated incident.
Rahami allegedly built four explosive devices, federal investigators said Tuesday.
The Minnesota attacker was described as a “soldier of the Islamic State”, the militant group’s news agency said.
One of the Manhattan bombs injured 29 people when it exploded on Saturday night.
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On Monday, Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested after a gunfight with police in Linden, New Jersey, in connection with three bomb incidents in NY and New Jersey.
