The images come one week after federal prosecutors charged the Afghan-born man over the NY and New Jersey bombings with four counts including use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a place of public use.
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Rahami remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds from a shootout with police that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey.
Even though Rahami remains unconscious, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the Justice Department expects the 28-year-old bombing suspect to face federal terrorism charges in NY in the “near future”.
The men apparently found the luggage on the sidewalk, took out its contents – possibly without even knowing they were handling an explosive device, left the bomb on the pavement and walked away with the bag. The pressure cooker on 27th Street had 12 of Rahami’s fingerprints on it, according to law enforcement officials, but other fingerprints were on the device as well.
A federal judge has denied a public defender’s request that the man charged in bombings in the New York City-region be appointed a lawyer. That second video, they said, showed him pulling a suitcase and then a short time later walking without it.
Twenty-nine people were injured in the NY blast, and two officers were wounded in the shootout with Rahami in Linden, N.J.
Additionally, two law enforcement sources confirm to Fox News that Rahami’s wife, Asia Bibi Rahami, is cooperating with authorities.
Rahami will face allegations he planted a series of bombs in both states, including one which injured 31 people when it blew up on a bustling Manhattan street.
Mr Rahami was subsequently arrested after a shootout with police.
USA federal prosecutors have charged an Afghan-American with detonating and planting bombs in NY and New Jersey that left at least 31 people wounded.
Law enforcement officials said Rahami’s wife has returned to the United States after giving a statement to a USA embassy in the United Arab Emirates.
“I have cooperated with authorities and told them all I know about Ahmad Rahami”, she said. She was making her way back to the United States but was stopped in United Arab Emirates because she was placed on a no-fly list.
A New Jersey imam spoke against violence and in support of law enforcement during the first Friday prayer service since a local man was charged in the New Jersey and NY bombings.
A journal that officials say was found on Rahami contained anti-American writings and praise for well-known terrorist figures, including al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, American-born al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
Speaking in Urdu, Rahami said his son was not the same after that trip.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation agents interviewed the father after a 2014 incident in which Ahmad Rahami was arrested on charges – later dropped – that he stabbed one of his brothers in the leg.
