A Linden, New Jersey, police officer injured in a shootout with a man suspected of setting off bombs in NY and New Jersey is headed to a school to thank students for their well wishes.
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The 28-year-old USA citizen of Afghan descent remained hospitalized Wednesday with gunshot wounds from the shootout with police that led to his capture Monday.
“I don’t like to think about what could have happened, but I’m just so blessed and glad it didn’t”, Lee Parker said.
The comments by the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, showed Rahami had been brought to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation before the bombings much like others who have carried out attacks in the United States in recent years.
This undated photo provided by the New Jersey State Police shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of NY and the New Jersey shore town Seaside Park.
‘I didn’t want him to see my daughter, ‘ she said.
“They’re very, very lucky” it didn’t explode, said O’Neill.
In one section, the complaint says, Rahami wrote: “Death to your oppression”.
Authorities are questioning several people as they try to determine any possible connection between an explosion in a bustling New York City neighborhood, an unexploded pressure-cooker device found blocks away and a pipe bomb blast in New Jersey.
It added that another part included a reference, on a page that is largely unintelligible, to “pipe bombs” and a “pressure cooker bomb”, and declared: “In the streets they plan to run a mile”.
The father of a suspected NY and New Jersey bomber identified his son as a terrorist threat to authorities two years ago, he said Tuesday.
The man suspected of planting bombs in New York City and New Jersey was able to use the popular online bidding site eBay to secretly collect bomb components starting months ago, officials allege in court documents.
“I always saw him outside talking on a cell phone, walking back and forth”, said the neighbour, who asked not to be identified.
“No one can point to any example of a civilian criminal prosecution where any of the issues we were anxious about actually manifested”, including attacks on a trial or inappropriate disclosures of national security information, said Stephen Vladeck, a national security law professor at the University of Texas.
A judge has granted temporary sole custody to the mother of a child whose father has been charged with planting bombs in NY and New Jersey. Asked whether he thought his son was a terrorist, he said: “No”.
Officials believe Mr Rahami was brainwashed by extremist Islamic ideology after finding a notebook when he was taken into custody. She went to court on Tuesday to seek full custody of the child, citing the terror investigation.
Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage told PIX11 following Monday’s capture of alleged bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, he has been left in the dark.
Federal terrorism charges were filed against Rahami on Tuesday night.
The official said investigators were expected to make yet another attempt, although it was uncertain whether agents would be rebuffed after the government filed charges against the suspect Tuesday night. “[God willing] the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”. They made off with the bag the bomb was in, but left the explosive device behind.
He remains hospitalised after a shootout with police on Monday, hours after investigators say he dumped a package with bombs in a trash can near a train station.
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Mena, who could not immediately be reached for comment, last had telephone contact with Rahami in January 2016, the record showed.
