She says along with investigations, authorities must connect with members of various communities to find out who the terrorists are.
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Criminal complaints in Manhattan and New Jersey federal courts provided chilling descriptions of the motivations that authorities said drove the Afghan-born U.S. citizen to set off explosives, including a bomb that injured more than 31 people when it blew up in a busy Manhattan street. Mr. Rahami’s writings, which ramble at times, indicate he took inspiration from those who urge attacks on “nonbelievers, ” one official said.
The pair appeared to remove the explosive device from the luggage before taking the bag with them.
Officers say Rahami remains in a “critical but stable” condition in hospital after being shot by police.
Licata, the JTTF agent, wrote that Rahami’s fingerprints were found on one pressure cooker found on 27th Street in Manhattan that did not go off, that his auto entered and exited Manhattan on the night the bombs went off, and that video surveillance showed him walking by a site on 23rd Street before an explosive went off there, injuring 31 people.
Waters said the men who removed the bomb from the bag were “very lucky” they weren’t hurt.
Rahami was captured after a bar owner in Linden, New Jersey reported someone asleep in his doorway.
The indictment says video recovered from the cell phone of a relative of Rahami, 28, shows him lighting incendiary material in a cylindrical container two days before the bombings.
Mr Rahami was arrested on Monday in Linden, New Jersey, not far from Elizabeth, where his family lived above their storefront First American Fried Chicken restaurant.
The woman said that she had not seen Rahami in two years and shared that he didn’t pay child support and would often rail against American culture.
The blasts came two years after the Federal Bureau of Investigation looked into him but came up with nothing tying him to terrorism.
An Afghan immigrant suspected of setting off a bomb in Manhattan at the weekend is arrested after a shootout with police.
The journal also had “laudatory references” to Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born cleric who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen, and Nidal Hasan, a U.S. army doctor who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, USA federal authorities said in the criminal complaint filed.
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Other passages lauded Osama bin Laden, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hassan, and former al-Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki.
