Rahami was apprehended on Monday in Linden, New Jersey, after a shootout with police that left him with multiple gunshot wounds.
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He remains hospitalized. Rahami is already facing state charges in connection with the shootout.
Federal terrorism charges were filed against Rahami on Tuesday night.
The man suspected of planting bombs in a NY neighborhood and a New Jersey seaside town may have aimed to inflict carnage incognito, but he didn’t succeed for long in concealing his identity.
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 vehicle 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.
DINA TEMPLE-RASTON, BYLINE: The new charges are federal – the use and attempt to use weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property by means of explosives and using a destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence.
The attacks were the latest in a series in the United States inspired by militant groups including al Qaeda and Islamic State. In a handwritten journal, he warned that bombs would resound in the streets and prayed he’d be martyred rather than caught, authorities say. A foot chase ensued, during which Rahami shot at a police auto, causing a bullet to graze another officer in the face. “Death to your oppression”.
More information is coming out about the American man charged in connection with a series of bombings in NY and New Jersey that injured dozens of people.
TEMPLE-RASTON: That’s right. For example, the complaint says that Rahami started buying components for his bombs months ago.
Rahami’s wife is thought to be a Pakistani national. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
“He sent an email to my office from Pakistan, and he had said to me that he had been in Pakistan since April 2013 and we received the email on March 2014”, Sires told CNN.
In Rahami’s case, the law enforcement official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation had opened up an “assessment”, the least intrusive form of an Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry.
Though FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr., said there is “no indication” of an active operating terror cell in the NY area, evidence suggests Rahami was not acting alone, sources told CNN.
– Officials are trying to determine whether Rahami’s wife is still in the country. He has been charged with five counts of attempted murder against police.
According to the court documents, investigators also recovered video from the cell phone of an unidentified family member which allegedly shows Rahami “igniting incendiary material in a cylindrical container”.
Initially, a garbage can explosion at a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, New Jersey, Saturday morning seemed to be an isolated incident. The bag contained multiple explosive devices, including one that blew up as police tried to disarm it with a robot. Another bomb went off in NY, injuring 29.
The bombing in NY is just one of the crime scenes linked to Rahami. According to three USA law enforcement officials, Rahami’s writings recovered by law enforcement contain references to Osama Bin Laden and American-born jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
The page includes the phrase “Join us in our New front”.
Officials say Rahami travelled extensively to Afghanistan and spent around a year Pakistan, where he married and his wife became pregnant. One said he arrived from Afghanistan with his family as a young child.
Authorities also said that he had in his possession a notebook with extremist ramblings when he was captured Monday.
– Associated Press writer Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report. After he left, the video showed two other men removing a white garbage bag believed to contain the pressure cooker from the duffel bag and leaving it on the sidewalk, according to a senior law enforcement official and another source familiar with the video.
The Edison, New Jersey, woman filed the petition Tuesday with a family court in Union County, New Jersey. In court papers, she said she last spoke to him on the telephone in January.
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Officer Padilla went home Monday night, several hours after he was shot in the torso – a wound authorities say could have been fatal were it not for a bulletproof vest he was wearing.
