Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami, the main suspect in the New York-New Jersey bombings with using a weapon of mass destruction.
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the two men pictured riffled through luggage, removed a pressure cooker explosive device which they left sitting on the street.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking the public for help in locating two men who allegedly found a piece of luggage on a NY sidewalk that contained an explosive device that may be tied to the suspect in Saturday’s bombings in NY and New Jersey.
Another bomb exploded harmlessly in a New Jersey seaside town earlier the same day.
The FBI issued a poster showing “two unidentified individuals” who investigators want to talk to.
James Waters, the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism chief, told reporters there was “no reason to believe” the men are connected to Rahami’s alleged plot.
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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.
NY bombing suspect Ahmad Rahami is reported intubated and unconscious Wednesday at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, where he was taken following a shootout with police.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was captured on CCTV prior to his arrest.
A LAWYER for an Afghan-born USA 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. “Death To Your OPPRESSION”, one passage from the notebook read, as quoted in the complaint. Rahami underwent surgery on his wounds and remains in hospital.
Federal prosecutors portrayed Rahami, who came to the United States at age seven and became a naturalised citizen, as embracing militant Islamic views.
“The FBI conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism”, the FBI said in a statement.
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According to the complaint filed in Manhattan, an item, which was described as a handwritten journal, was found on Rahami’s person after the shootout.
