It was left on West 27th Street, where two men took out the cooker and wheeled off the suitcase.
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NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce has previously said that police are looking to question the men, but that there is no indication they were involved in the bombing. Police have not confirmed whether these two men are the same men who law enforcement officials are now seeking for further investigation.
A pressure-cooker bomb packed with shrapnel exploded Saturday evening in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Earlier Saturday, a bomb went off at a charity in Seaside Park, N.J. And late Sunday, another explosive was detonated in Elizabeth, N.J.
Ball bearings were found in two pressure cooker bombs placed four blocks apart in the Chelsea neighborhood of NY late Saturday.
The images come one week after federal prosecutors charged the Afghan-born man over the NY and New Jersey bombings with four counts including use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
LINDEN, N.J. Investigators were searching on Tuesday for clues to the motive behind the bombings and attempted bombings in NY and New Jersey over the weekend and to determine whether the Afghanistan-born suspect had accomplices or was radicalised overseas.
The indictment says video recovered from the mobile phone of a relative of Rahami shows him lighting incendiary material in a cylindrical container two days before the bombings.
Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with setting a bomb in New Jersey and two in New York City.
The men – who are being sought as witnesses not suspects – appeared to take the suitcase, leaving the bomb behind.
AP spokesman Paul Colford said the AP told law enforcement officials about Rahami’s work at the Cranbury facility.
The criminal complaint said authorities found a handwritten journal on Rahami that contained references to “brother Osama Bin Laden” and Anwar al-Awlaki, an al-Qaida propagandist who was killed in a 2011 drone strike. The last sentences in the journal were “Gun shots to your police”.
In Rahami’s case, the law enforcement official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had opened up an “assessment”, the least intrusive form of an Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry.
Court complaints filed Tuesday give a chilling glimpse into what authorities say motivated the Afghan-born USA citizen to set off explosives last weekend in NY and New Jersey.
The federal charging documents say Rahami had been buying components online for months, shipping them all to his workplace, NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston told All Things Considered.
The device was allegedly planted by Ahmad Rahami, an Afghan-born, New Jersey resident who is facing charges in connection to twin blasts.
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He had also visited Afghanistan and Pakistan in recent years, but investigators found no “ties to terrorism”.
