Rahami was arrested on Monday morning in connection to the bombings that occurred in New York City and New Jersey over the weekend.
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Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami, the main suspect in the New York-New Jersey bombings with using a weapon of mass destruction.
Mena told the court she was requesting sole custody and a restraining order because Rahami “has been charged with police attempted murder and is now under protective services after possible terrorist related activity in NYC”.
Sky’s New York Correspondent Hannah Thomas-Peter said the footage showed the men walking along the street and coming across the “brightly-coloured” suitcase before looking inside and pulling out the device Rahami had allegedly planted.
The letter says public defenders could represent Rahami through a telephone or video conference.
Surveillance video shown on CNN and other U.S. television broadcasters shows a man believed to be Rahami dragging a bag big enough to hold the pressure cooker bomb used in the explosion before Saturday night’s blast in Manhattan.
Mr Rahami wrote: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”.
Surveillance video obtained exclusively by NBC 4 NY shows the moment that suspected NY and New Jersey bomber Ahmad Rahami moments before he dumped luggage containing a pressure-cooker bomb on a Manhattan street Saturday night, authorities say. Rahami was also accused of placing a pipe bomb along a charity racecourse in Seaside Park, New Jersey, that detonated earlier Saturday but injured no one.
The day after the Linden shootout and subsequent arrest of Ahmad Khan Rahami, his father told reporters, “I called them two years ago”, while pointing at authorities.
The Afghan immigrant who authorities believe planted bombs in New Jersey and NY this weekend was captured Monday after a dramatic gun battle with police that sparked when officers found him sleeping in the doorway of a bar.
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who received a classified briefing from the FBI, told NBC that federal agents have attempted to question Rahami in the hospital but that he has not cooperated.
From June 20 to August 10, registered eBay user “ahmad rahimi” purchased items associated with bomb making, the complaint alleges.
Authorities say Lee Parker and a friend contacted police after finding the bag near the Elizabeth train station. “Death to you oppression”, according to court documents.
Based on the new information, investigators now believe Rahami went back to his family’s Elizabeth, New Jersey, home after setting off a second bomb on Saturday in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.
CBS News has learned that on Sunday night investigators thought they had Rahami under surveillance and were concerned that he was trying to flee in a vehicle.
There are also laudatory references to: Anwar al-A wlaki; Nidal Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas; and “Brother Osama Bin Laden”. Authorities have said a bulletproof vest saved Padilla from a more serious injury.
Another Linden officer, Pete Hammer, was released Tuesday. Law enforcement officials said they have evidence tying him to all four.
The official says the Federal Bureau of Investigation looked into the matter, but that Mohammad Rahami later retracted his comment and said he meant that his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd, including gangs. The son ultimately wasn’t prosecuted after a grand jury declined to indict him.
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Rahami’s wife, Asia Bibi Rahami, and his mother reportedly left the US days before the attacks were carried out, raising additional questions about the bombings.
