The FBI contacted Mohammad Rahami; Rahami didn’t contact the FBI.
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A criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday in Newark, New Jersey, shortly after a virtually identical filing was unsealed in NY.
The suspect remains hospitalized in Newark, New Jersey, where he is recovering from gunshot wounds sustained in a shootout with police prior to his arrest Monday morning in the city of Linden.
Rahami remained hospitalized Thursday.
So far, investigators have no information to suggest the sister knew of Rahami’s plans. One didn’t go off.
A homeless man who found a backpack filled with bombs in New Jersey on Sunday night is being hailed as a hero.
A New Jersey police officer injured in a shootout with the man suspected of setting off bombs in the New York City area is at a school to thank students for their well wishes.
A law enforcement official says investigators have not yet been able to question the man charged with planting bombs in NY and New Jersey because of the severity of his injuries. Asked whether he thought his son was a terrorist, he said: “No”. A US magistrate judge said late on Wednesday that he accepted that position.
The journal praises other terrorists and ends: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”. Gun shots to your police.
“Death to your oppression”, the journal ended.
The explosive device was found blocks from the scene of the Chelsea blast on West 23rd Street that injured at least 30 people.
The criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan. He also has a history of domestic violence complaints.
The man suspected of setting off bombs in NY and New Jersey used to work as an unarmed guard at private security companies, including one that provided services to The Associated Press.
If it is not possible for Rahami’s physical appearance in court because of the continuing medical treatment, Patton said an attorney from his office could represent the suspect in a telephone or video conference. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor. They then remove a pressure cooker from the luggage, leave the pressure cooker on the sidewalk and walk away with the luggage.
“He has been held and questioned by federal law enforcement agents since his arrest, ” Patton wrote.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Rahami will be moved to NY to face federal charges in the “near future”. I can’t guarantee you 100 percent if he is a terrorist. He has been charged with five counts of attempted murder against police. The auction site said it is working with authorities during this investigation.
He was also charged with planting a pipe bomb that went off in Seaside Park, N.J., earlier Saturday. MacArthur says it was a stroke of luck that no one was hurt.
The Associated Press viewed a blood-stained page of the notebook.
In addition to bin Laden, the journal contained references to US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Fort Hood, Texas, mass shooter Nidal Hasan.
The page includes the phrase “Join us in our New front”.
Rahami had also traveled for extended periods to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last few years. One said he arrived from Afghanistan with his family as a young child. In court documents filed on Tuesday where she is seeking sole custody of their child, the woman identified herself as Maria Mena.
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”.
Both officers were treated and released from a hospital. Patrolman Angel Padilla said he tried to roust a man sleeping in a doorway and recognized Rahami’s face from a public alert hours before.
Padilla was shot in the torso, but his bulletproof vest saved him from a more serious injury.
Another Linden officer, Pete Hammer, was released Tuesday. Hammer was grazed in the head by a bullet or shrapnel.
A federal law enforcement official told USA TODAY there was no immediate indication that the two men had any involvement in the terror plot.
John Miller is the deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism and is testifying in front of the House Homeland Security Committee. Rahami was not prosecuted in the stabbing; a grand jury declined to indict him.
The official who spoke to AP insisted on anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.
The New York Times published an interview Thursday with Mohammad Rahami.
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– Associated Press writers Eric Tucker in Washington and Josh Cornfield in Trenton, New Jersey, contributed to this report.
