Rahami criticized the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and wrote in his notebook about “killing the kuffar”, or unbelievers, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
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Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, has been held in a Newark, New Jersey, hospital since being arrested on Monday with wounds after a shootout with police.
Rahami remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds from a shootout with police that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey.
Investigators say Rahami planted two bombs in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. One didn’t go off. Investigators say he left another set of explosives in a trash bin by a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The wife of the Afghan-born us citizen charged in last weekend’s bombings in New York City and New Jersey has returned to the United States, a law enforcement official said on Thursday, while a defence lawyer pressed to get access to the accused man. A charred spot is visible on the property, and prosecutors said they have cell phone video of Rahami detonating an explosive device in a backyard just two days before the Chelsea bombings.
“But they checked, nearly two months, and they say, ‘He’s OK, he’s clear, he’s not terrorist.’ Now they say he’s a terrorist”, the father said. “Death To Your OPPRESSION”.
“It’s clear from this journal that Mr. Rahami was receiving inspiration from the ISIS spokesman, Mr. Adnani”, Michael McCaul said.
The charges assert the 28-year-old naturalized US citizen from Afghanistan, meant to “cause death and serious bodily injury” when he planted devices at four locations across New Jersey and NY, including the two in Manhattan. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
Noting that Rahami could face state charges in NY and New Jersey – in addition to federal charges – Bharara said, “We are not rushing against each other to bring charges”.
Rahami’s wife, Asia Bibi Rahami, flew back to the United States overnight, a law enforcement official said. Family court records show Rahami also worked for a security firm in Parsippany, New Jersey, in 2008.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Justice Department intends in the “near future” to bring Ahmad Khan Rahami to NY to face charges in a Saturday night bombing there. He has been charged with five counts of attempted murder against police.
Also Tuesday, investigators disclosed that when Rahami was shot and captured, he had a notebook with him that contained extremist ramblings.
MacArthur represents the district where a pipe bomb blew up before a military charity run Saturday in Seaside Park.
A judge has granted temporary sole custody to the mother of a child whose father has been charged with planting bombs in NY and New Jersey.
The FBI appealed for the public’s help Wednesday in locating two unidentified men who removed an explosive device from a piece of luggage planted just a few blocks from where a separate bomb detonated Saturday night in NY, injuring 31 people.
Rahami traveled to Pakistan in the years before the bombings, and his father had previously raised concerns with the authorities about his potential involvement in terrorism.
The officials were not authorized to publicly reveal details of the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.
Associated Press reporters Jake Pearson in NY and Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., contributed to this item.
A woman who had a child with the man suspected of setting off bombs in NY and New Jersey has asked a court to give her full custody of their son.
On the brief form, she indicated that she was requesting full custody because the “defendant has been charged with police attempted murder and is now under protective services after possible terrorist related activity in NYC”.
The FBI has released an image of two men who took a suitcase holding a bomb that didn’t explode in New York City. Hammer was grazed in the head by a bullet or shrapnel.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested for stabbing a person in the leg and possession of a firearm in 2014.
Meanwhile, Rahami’s wife, Asia Bibi Rahami, who left the country shortly before the bombings, has been cooperating with authorities in the United Arab Emirates and is expected to return to the U.S.in the coming days, the official said, adding USA investigators will seek to question the wife when she returns.
Rahami’s father told reporters Tuesday outside the family’s fried-chicken restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey, that he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago.
-Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.
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