A day earlier, two men walking down a New York City street made off with a rolling backpack that someone had left on the sidewalk about 15 minutes earlier. On Saturday, a pipe bomb went off in a trash can along a Marine race route. Twenty-nine people were injured and taken to the hospital.
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Luckily, there were no lives lost in any of these attacks. Authorities said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to the leg.
Not to mention, with a pivotal Presidential election entering its final weeks, how will the candidates handle the attacks?
NEW YORK (AP) – Two sets of scavengers played roles in the investigation of the bombing rampage that terrorized people in New York and New Jersey over the weekend, authorities said Monday. No one was injured.
At the time, the son was being held on an assault charge for stabbing his brother during a domestic dispute, another law enforcement official said. He said the Federal Bureau of Investigation and local law enforcement agencies were working “smartly” to locate a culprit. The second was found several blocks away and was neutralized by police and sent for investigation by the FBI.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim advocacy group, welcomed Rahami’s arrest. Pedestrians can be seen scrambling as the blast occurred.
On Sat., Sept. 18, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo surveyed the explosion scene with authorities.
Linden Mayor Derek Armstead said the break in the case came late Monday morning, when the owner of a bar reported someone asleep in his doorway.
Hillary Clinton cast herself Monday as the most qualified to combat terrorism in the USA after a weekend of violent attacks in three states. In both of those incidents, the attackers claimed an affinity for ISIS.
Cuomo said investigators have no reason to believe there are further threats, but the public should “be on constant guard”.
But Comey isn’t anxious just about Islamist terror threats.
He was listed in critical but stable condition as a result of his wounds, and police had not yet been able to interview him in depth, New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill said.
There’s still a heavy police presence in the W. 23rd St. area.
An Afghanistan-born American sought in connection with a bombing that wounded more than two dozen people in New York City and could be linked to other bombs found in New York and New Jersey was taken into custody on Monday after a shoot-out, a New Jersey Mayor said.
In light of new evidence, he tells CNN, “I would not be surprised if we did have a foreign connection to the act”. Instead, they helped out neighbors in need and got back to their business.
“I think it is important to remember what terrorists and violent extremists are trying to do”.
Rahami, a USA citizen born in Afghanistan, was last known to be living in Elizabeth, N.J., where a backpack containing up to five devices was discovered in a trash bin near a pub next to commuter train tracks. As a precaution, local rail and bus service was suspended. The bag had wires and a pipe protruding from it. The FBI’s bomb squad then deployed a robot to examine the devices.
Many in Chelsea were rattled by Saturday’s bombing. “A few friends of mine saw glass there”.
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“We felt it, we heard it, the restaurant went real quiet, the 26-year-old Gonzalez said. People aren’t in fear in the City”, Ali H. Soufan’s Twitter account read Saturday night.
