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 shootout, a New Jersey mayor said. This frame from surveillance video released by the New Jersey State Police shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of NY and the Ne.
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Authorities are working with officials in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates to get access to her and to ask questions about what she knew, the official said. One didn’t go off.
Earlier that day, a pipe bomb blew up in Seaside Park, N.J., before a charity race to benefit Marines.
Complaints filed in federal court in Manhattan and New Jersey contain details from the investigation and Rahami’s handwritten journal, which was damaged from a shootout with police.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested on Monday after a gunfight with police in Linden, New Jersey.
They also found a website where Rahami allegedly posted jihadist missives, sources said. When he returned to America, he told USA agents that during his time away he had driven back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan, the official said.
Prosecutors say the document ends: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”. Gun shots to your police. “Death To Your OPPRESSION”. It wasn’t clear when Rahami would get an attorney.
There are already so many police deployed to monitor traffic around the United Nations General Assembly this week that pedestrians are forced to walk blocks out of their way to avoid the many checkpoints surrounding the annual gathering of thousands of diplomats, heads of state, journalists, and aid workers at Turtle Bay. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
Lynch says she has full confidence in prosecutors’ ability to bring Rahami “to justice for his heinous actions”. Family court records show Rahami also worked for a security firm in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 2008.
The attack in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday injured 29. According to CNN, Rahmani has been charged “with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer”, and with “second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful objective”.
Investigators are trying to track down his family members outside the US and determine whether those trips may have played a role in his radicalization or factored into his learning how to build bombs, officials said. He has since been taken into police custody.
The Associated Press viewed a blood-stained page of the notebook. He traveled to those countries in April 2013, and didn’t return to the USA until March 2014, the official said.
The page includes the phrase “Join us in our New front”.
Ahmad Khan Rahami provided investigators with a wealth of clues that lead to his arrest some 50 hours after the first explosion, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation. One said he arrived from Afghanistan with his family as a young child. The officials spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
A New Jersey judge on Tuesday granted the woman’s request, which cited the terror investigation against Ahmad Khan Rahami.
The bombing spread fear across the NY area and revived anxiety about homegrown terrorism nationwide.
The police are investigating whether Rahami could have been influenced by global militant groups or the Afghan conflict.
When officers responded, Rahami pulled out a handgun and opened fire, striking an officer in his protective vest over his chest.
Another Linden officer, Pete Hammer, was released Tuesday. Two officers were injured in the shootout, which ended when Rahami was shot multiple times.
People in the region are tough and resilient, President Barack Obama said on Monday. A forensic examination of the device will be sent to the FBI Laboratory at Quantico, Virginia, police said.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested for stabbing a person in the leg and possession of a firearm in 2014. But a grand jury declined to indict him, despite a warning from the arresting officer that Rahami was likely “a danger to himself or others”.
Early on Monday, FBI agents swarmed an apartment above a fried chicken restaurant in Elizabeth that’s tied to Rahami.
– Eric Tucker in Washington and Josh Cornfield in Pennsylvania contributed to this report. One of the bombs left in Manhattan didn’t explode. But an art gallery, a design studio and a fitness center still have shattered or missing windows.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio scheduled meetings with neighborhood residents on Tuesday.
