In separate complaints filed in U.S. District Court in the Empire and Garden States, Rahami was charged with several counts of using weapons of mass destruction, bombing a place of public use, and attempting to destroy property by means of fire or explosives. “Particularly those law enforcement officers who were injured in the line of duty”.
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Rahami was not initially cooperative with police who tried to interview him, a law enforcement official said.
The FBI says it looked into Rahami after he was accused of stabbing his brother in 2014.
The official says the Federal Bureau of Investigation looked into the matter, but that Mohammad Rahami later retracted his comment and said he meant that his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd, including gangs.
Mr Rahami has been charged in relation to the NY explosion and another device that exploded harmlessly hours earlier near a race in Seaside Park, New Jersey. Sources say federal agents are hoping to quiz her overseas, although they declined to say where.
His fingerprints and DNA were found at the scene of the Manhattan bombing, they said.
Q: What did he do bad?
This frame from surveillance video released by the New Jersey State Police shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of NY and the Ne. Two police officers had non-life threatening injuries.
Another Linden officer, Pete Hammer, was released Tuesday.
Investigators say Rahami planted two bombs in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night.
– Officials are trying to determine whether Rahami’s wife is still in the country. Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Justice Department intends in the “near future” to bring Rahami to NY to face charges in the Saturday night bombing there, which wounded at least 31 people.
It wasn’t known if Rahami had an attorney. “Anybody in his circle, we need to speak to”, said Police Commissioner James O’Neill. They are looking into whether he was radicalized overseas.
“No”, Mohammad Rahami answered. It’s also unclear whether he was read his Miranda rights – it appears he initially talked without having been read his rights, which happens often in terrorism cases.
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A handwritten note found next to the pressure cooker bomb contained ramblings, including references to previous terrorists, including the Boston Marathon bombers.
