A law enforcement official says the father of the man suspected in bombings in New York City and New Jersey had contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation following a 2014 stabbing to express concerns that his son was a terrorist. Armstead said, “One of our police officers went to investigate and to wake him up”. The official says Rahami was given a USA passport in 2003, while a minor, and again in 2007 after he said he lost his first one.
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He has been charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcer. An official told the paper Mohammad Rahami made the statement out of anger.
Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton said her rival’s anti-Muslim rhetoric gives “aid and comfort” to Islamic terrorists by helping them recruit fighters. He said he was concerned about his wife’s passport and visa and it transpired that her Pakistani passport had expired.
This undated photo provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Ahmad Khan Rahami, wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked a New York City neighborhood and a New Jersey shore town was taken into custody Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, after a shootout wi. His last known address was in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The events put NY on edge and fueled the debate about USA security seven weeks before the presidential election, with candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton clashing once again on Monday.
Police and security agents man a vehicle barricade across 42nd Street at Second Avenue near United Nations headquarters, in NY. An additional 1,000 officers were deployed.
Indian-American attorney Ravi Batra told PTI that Bains “dared to honour his Oath of Citizenship to protect & defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic – and it’s turns out that the Chelsea Pressure Cooker Bomber suspect, a naturalised citizen, is caught by another immigrant, an Indian-American Hero-Sikh”.
He spent several weeks in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and in Quetta, Pakistan in 2011 – Quetta is a Taliban stronghold where he married a Pakistani woman, according to CNN. The official, and other USA security sources, said Rahami underwent additional security screening upon returning from overseas but passed on every occasion.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called for using “whatever lawful methods are available” to get information from Rahami, mocked the fact that he would receive quality medical care and legal representation, and called for profiling foreigners who look like they could have connections to terrorism or certain Mideastern countries. He came to the United States as a child in 1995 and became a naturalised U.S. citizen in 2011, according to law enforcement officials quoted by news reports.
He was charged in Union County with five counts of attempted murder of a police officer.
“A lot of technology involved in this, but a lot of good, old-fashioned police work, too”, said New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill.
The New Jersey State Police say they believe Rahami is also connected to the pipe bombs found near an Elizabeth train station.
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The blast in Chelsea injured 29 people, though all have since been released from the hospital.
