Mr. Rahami allegedly planted bombs in two locations in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, and allegedly placed explosives in Seaside Park and Elizabeth, N.J.
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A complaint filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan documents the physical evidence showing how Ahmad Khan Rahami allegedly carried out the attacks and indicating why he did so. The bombs in New Jersey, which were clusters of pipe bombs, partially detonated but didn’t harm anyone. Police said they had not recovered the suitcase.
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Fingerprints lifted from the bomb led the police to Rahami, whose family runs a fried chicken restaurant.
Rahami was charged on Monday evening with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, according to the Union County, New Jersey, prosecutor.
Mr. Rahami was taken into police custody Monday night after a gun battle with police in Linden, New Jersey.
Rahami, a naturalised United States citizen born in Afghanistan, was captured on Monday 19 September, after he was wounded in a gunfight in Linden, New Jersey.
The man accused of setting off explosions around NY, including one that injured 31 people, has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing public places, USA officials say.
Local authorities and federal agents are interested in speaking with the unknown men after surveillance footage captured them sifting through luggage left on the sidewalk, removing the pressure-cooker bomb, and walking away from the scene with the luggage. They say he vowed in a handwritten jihad journal that “the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”. “Death To Your OPPRESSION”.
“I put him in jail two years ago”, the elder Rahami said.
The subject of a manhunt that spurred an emergency alert sent to cellphones in the NY area, Rahami was found sleeping in the hallway of a bar in Linden, N.J. The business’ owner discovered Rahami and, thinking he was a vagrant, called police. Pressure cookers bombs were used there and the USA media are reporting Rahami was found with handwritten notes praising the bombers, the 2009 Fort Hood shooter and the American-born cleric and al-Qaeda recruiter-the late Anwar al-Awlaki.
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Rahami is a naturalised citizen who came to the U.S.as a child.
