Family had concerns about New York bombing suspect

A charge sheet before the Manhattan federal court sheds new light on Mr Rahami’s motivations.

Rahami, a US citizen born in Afghanistan, remained hospitalized Tuesday after surgery for a gunshot wound to his leg.

Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016.

Federal agents would like to question Rahami.

Both pieces of evidence contain written rants, suggesting that he was a consumer of multiple radical ideologies by several different terrorist organizations, reports CBS News homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues.

The weekend bombings included a blast on Saturday night in New York City’s Chelsea neighbourhood that wounded 29 people, and another on the New Jersey shore.

A social media account associated with the phone contained videos of violent extremist content.

In the last five years, Rahami traveled for extended periods to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

“The blast shattered windows as far as approximately 400 feet from the detonation site and, vertically, more than three stories high, ” according to court documents. Twelve fingerprints recovered from the pressure cooker, duct tape, and triggering cell phone were matched to Rahami.

Al-Awlaki was an American-born Yemeni imam and lecturer allegedly working with al-Qaeda who was killed by a USA drone strike in Yemen. Republican presidential candidate Trump called for using “whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from Rahami, mocked the fact that he would receive quality medical care and legal representation, and called for profiling foreigners who look like they could have connections to terrorism.

“Inshallah (God willing), the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”.

Later, he threatened the United States with “the sounds of bombs in the streets”, “gun shots to police” and death to “oppression”. But Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-N.J., who received a classified briefing from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said Rahami was not cooperating.

The FBI acknowledged it had investigated Rahami in 2014, but found no “ties to terrorism” and dropped its inquiry.

Meanwhile, a law enforcement source who previously said the notes were found with an unexploded pressure cooker bomb now says the notes weren’t found with the bomb. It’s unclear if that is a result of the shootout that occurred just before Rahami’s capture on Monday.

The Times reported that they could not confirm if law enforcement officials interviewed Rahami at the time of his father’s allegations. Ultimately, federal investigators believed it was a domestic dispute, several federal officials told CNN.

Nor were Afghan intelligence officials aware of either Rahami or his family, said Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, director-general of the Afghan National Directorate of Security.

The FBI ran through more checks but never interviewed Ahmad Rahami, according to officials. He was questioned every time he returned to the U.S., as is standard procedure, but was not on the radar as someone who might have been radicalised, the official said.

It wasn’t known if Rahami had an attorney. He filed the paperwork in 2011 and it was approved in 2012. However it’s unclear if she came to the U.S. at that time.

Rahami contacted N.J. Congressman Albio Sires’ office from Islamabad in Pakistan in 2014, CNN said. Upon his return to the United States, he had to go through secondary screening for visiting an area of Pakistan known for its Taliban presence. Sources tell CBS News she is cooperating.

Rahami had asked officials for help with her immigration paperwork.

Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested in 2014 on charges of stabbing a person in the leg and possession of a firearm.

The backpack with five bombs inside was found in a wastebasket around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday outside a neighborhood pub in Elizabeth, about 16 miles from New York City. Police found him after a bar owner spotted him sleeping in the doorway of his bar.

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The younger Rahami was arrested on Monday, after a shootout with police, and is now being held on $5.2 million bail. Padilla was taken to University Hospital in Newark where he was admitted for treatment.