Journalists questioned his father about his son’s activities.
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The FBI reviewed its databases and found no credible connection to terrorism or threat to the USA from the son, the official said.
Reporters outside Mohammad Rahami’s restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey, asked him on Tuesday if he thought his son was a terrorist.
The bomb that exploded on 23rd Street injured 31 people. The blasts came two years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation looked into him but came up with nothing tying him to terrorism. Rahami was listed in critical but stable condition, and police had not yet been able to interview him in depth, New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill said. They left the device but took the luggage with them.
The Afghanistan-born man is a naturalized US citizen.
He was arrested on Monday after being found sleeping in a pub doorway in Linden, New Jersey.
Mohammed Rahami (3-L), the father of the suspect behind the September 17 explosion in New York City and a second bombing in New Jersey, talks with FBI investigators in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, an Afghan-born American, was charged on Tuesday and will be transported to Manhattan to face the charges, said federal prosecutors in ny.
The FBI has released an image of two men seen removing a bomb from a suitcase in NY. Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested for the alleged stabbing and spent three months in jail; however, a grand jury did not indict Rahami, because the “allegations were recanted”. No one was injured.
Criminal complaints in Manhattan and New Jersey federal courts provided chilling descriptions of the motivations that authorities said drove the Afghan-born USA citizen to set off explosives, including a bomb that injured more than 31 people when it blew up in a busy Manhattan street. Other bombs were found nearby in Manhattan and also in neighbouring New Jersey.
Late Sunday night, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station. Rahami has not yet been tied to any particular worldwide terrorist network.
Investigators do not have a clear timeline on when Ahmad Khan Rahami will face justice.
Officials said they have no other suspects at large but cautioned they are still investigating.
The journal doesn’t offer specific grievances, but rather an overall complaint that the U.S.is at war with Muslims, according to officials.
Rahami remains unconscious at a New Jersey hospital.
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Investigators are looking into whether Mr Rahami was radicalised during previous trips to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
