The company said it has been cooperating with the federal inquiry.
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Prosecutors charged Rahami on Tuesday on four counts, including for using weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use. But a device like that, he said, is very sensitive.
But at around the same time another explosive device detonated on West 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighbourhood, injuring 31 people.
Ahmed Khan Rahami of Elizabeth, New Jersey, was arrested in Perth Amboy after a shootout with police.
When Rahami was shot and taken into custody, he was carrying a notebook in which he praised “Brother Osama bin Laden” and other well-known global terrorists, according to the complaint.
“Ahmad Rahami and I have a child together, but neither my child nor I have had any physical contact with him in more than two years”.
“Death to your oppression”, the journal ended.
The official said investigators are looking closely at video recovered from the cell phone of an unidentified family member that allegedly shows Rahami “igniting incendiary material” in a backyard near his Elizabeth, N.J., home just two days before the NY explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. One of the bombs left in Manhattan didn’t explode. 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.
“But they checked, nearly two months, and they say, ‘He’s OK, he’s clear, he’s not terrorist.’ Now they say he’s a terrorist”, the father said outside the family’s fried-chicken restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He also is expected to placing a pipe bomb in a garbage can along a race route in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
That link involved one of the cell phones that investigators said were shipped a year ago to a store in Perth Amboy near the address that Rahami provided as his home in a 2012 passport application.
Other federal charges were expected to be filed Tuesday evening in New Jersey, according to reports.
Investigators said on September 20 that Rahami was captured with a notebook on him that contained extremist statements.
The men – who are being sought as possible witnesses not suspects – appeared to then take the suitcase, leaving the bomb behind.
Mr Rahami was subsequently arrested after a shootout with police.
The journal, which was stained with blood and appeared to have been struck with a bullet during his gunfight with police, praised Osama bin Laden and criticised United States military involvement in countries such as Syria and Afghanistan, where he was born before moving to Elizabeth, New Jersey with his family when he was seven.
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Mr Rahami wrote: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”.
