One of the bombs injured 29 people.
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The letter says public defenders could represent Rahami through a telephone or video conference.
He is said to be in a critical but stable condition, although police have not yet been able to interview him. “We have no reason to believe they’re connected”.
The New York Police Department released a photo of Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was wanted for questioning in the Saturday night explosions in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, de Blasio said on CNN. He could also face federal terrorism charges for the bombings that injured almost 30 people.
Review of surveillance footage near the other bomb location, on 23rd Street, found a positive identification of Rahami “pulling a small suitcase” two minutes before the detonation.
The suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, bought bomb components on eBay, made a video of himself testing out homemade explosives, and kept a journal expressing outrage at the USA “slaughter” of mujahideen in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Palestine, federal officials allege.
“Two years [ago], I called the Federal Bureau of Investigation – my son, he’s doing very bad, OK?” he told reporters Tuesday morning.
The FBI said the two men saw a piece of luggage on the sidewalk, removed the improvised explosive device that was inside and then left with just the luggage. ‘But they check nearly two months, they say, ‘He’s O.K., he’s clean, he’s not a terrorist.’ I say O.K’.
A LAWYER for an Afghan-born U.S. citizen charged with bombings last weekend in NY and New Jersey asked a federal judge to schedule his first court appearance, possibly in his hospital bed.
He will be transported to Manhattan to face the charges, said federal prosecutors in NY.
The judge noted that court rules require an arrested person be brought before the court “without unnecessary delay”. He remains in hospital.
That link involved one of the cell phones that investigators said were shipped previous year to a store in Perth Amboy near the address that Rahami provided as his home in a 2012 passport application.
“In fact, this question is very much in dispute”, Gorenstein wrote.
Rahami, who was born in Afghanistan, was captured on Monday after he was wounded in a gunfight in Linden, New Jersey. He is being held on $5.2 million bail, and he faces state charges of attempted murder of police officers.
New York City bomber terrorist Ahmad Khan Rahami, a flight risk (his wife is already gone) receives bail. The journal ended with the message “Death to your oppression”, according to court filings. The journal, however, did not include any mention of the Islamic State. Fox News is told that she voluntarily gave a statement to US officials in the United Arab Emirates.
Rahami’s wife left the U.S. for Pakistan in recent days and was intercepted by officials on Monday in the United Arab Emirates, where investigators were attempting to determine whether she had been aware of her husband’s plans.
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Late Sunday night, five explosive devices were discovered in a trash can at an Elizabeth train station.
