Ahmad and the other members of the Rahami family brought suit in federal district court in 2011, alleging that they were being harassed for being Muslim.
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Rahami was reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago by his own father after reportedly stabbing his mother in the leg.
Investigators say Mr Rahami, who is 28, planted two bombs in Chelsea but one failed to detonate.
In the notebook he also praised renowned terrorists Osama Bin-Laden and Anwar al-Awalaki.
It is believed Mr Rahami bought the equipment for the bomb on eBay. He writes of pipe bombs and cooker bombs in the streets as well.
Rahami, a USA citizen born in Afghanistan, remained hospitalized Tuesday after surgery for a gunshot wound to his leg.
The complaint leaves unanswered questions about when Rahami began to feel deep antipathy for the country he had lived in for years and where he had become a naturalized citizen. Investigators have not publicly tied Rahami to those devices.
On a trip to Pakistan in 2014, Rahami emailed his local congressman seeking help because his pregnant wife had an expired passport.
Their young love was apparently not well received by Rahami’s father, who organized for him to visit Afghanistan right before their daughter was born.
She has been in contact with authorities.
Even before the 2014 incident, Rahami was accused in February 2012 of violating a domestic violence restraining order, according to court filings in his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
“But they checked it nearly two months”.
‘He seemed standoffish to American culture, but I never thought he would cross the line, ‘ she said. In court papers, she said she last spoke to him on the telephone in January. Justice Department guidelines restrict the types of actions agents may take; they can not, for instance, record phone calls without obtaining a higher level of approval or developing more grounds for suspicion.
Rahami and two police officers were wounded in the exchange of gunfire.
“The FBI conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks, and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism”, the FBI said. One of the officials, who specializes in counter-terrorism, said the “secondary” screening included asking Rahami where he had gone and for what objective.
“It does appear this was an act of terrorism”, White House spokesperson Josh Earnest said during a press briefing in New York City.
Rahami worked as an unarmed night guard for two months in 2011 at an AP administrative technology office in Cranbury, New Jersey.
AP global security chief Danny Spriggs said Rahami worked night shifts and often engaged colleagues in long political discussions, expressing sympathy for the Taliban and disdain for US military action in Afghanistan.
Chris Bollwage, the mayor of Elizabeth, said Rahami had also sustained shots and had been taken away by ambulance.
Rahami wasn’t on any terror or no-fly watch lists, though he had been interviewed for immigration purposes while traveling between the USA and Afghanistan, one of the law enforcement officials said. Sepulveda said he was unaware of any complaints about Rahami’s conduct.
A neighbor said Rahami had recently started dressing in more traditional clothes such as long tunics and sandals, which she said was how his father dressed.
Other records indicate the bombing suspect had worked for a separate security firm in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 2008. The officials said Mohammad Rahami later claimed he simply meant his son was hanging out with gangs and acting like a thug.
He has yet to be slapped with terror charges over Saturday night’s bombing in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, which wounded 29 people, and a pipe bombing along the route of a US Marine Corps race in New Jersey. A cell phone connected to the pressure cooker also provided clues, the official said.
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Evidence against Rahami includes bombs found at an Elizabeth train station, fingerprints found on an undetonated bomb found at 27th Street in Manhattan, and Surveillance video taken from near the Chelsea bombings.
