“‘Two years ago I go to the F.B.I. because my son was doing really bad, O.K.?’ he said”.
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Mohammad Rahami: He stabbed my son, he hit my wife, and I put him to jail.
The source says that Rahami’s father called the Federal Bureau of Investigation some time after Rahami returned from almost one year in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The FBI reviewed its databases and found no credible connection to terrorism or threat to the U.S. from the son, the official said. News website DNAInfo said the device failed to explode after the suitcase was stolen by two thieves, who in the process inadvertently disarmed the bomb.
William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s NY division, told reporters during a news conference after Rahami’s arrest Monday that authorities had received information that the suspect had once been involved in some sort of “domestic” dispute, but that he was not presently on the bureau’s radar.
Ahmad was arrested on Monday after a shootout with police officers in Linden, New Jersey, officials said.
Police are still investigating the motives behind the bombings in the NY neighbourhood of Chelsea, which injured 29 people, and a pipe blast at a US Marine Corps race on the Jersey shore.
The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force opened an investigation into the report.
Agents are now analyzing eight unexploded bombs recovered from Manhattan and New Jersey, fingerprints, DNA and a notebook, which was reportedly found on his person and contained writings about Al-Qaeda.
Although federal agents have tried to question him, USA officials say he has not been co-operating.
Rahami is slated to face five counts of attempted murder and two gun charges for his suspected crimes.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was arrested earlier in the day in Lindne, New Jersey, after a shootout with police.
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. While working in his convenience store, located just across East Elizabeth Street, Bains recognized the dozing man as Ahmad Khan Rahami from CNN coverage he was watching on his laptop.
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CNN has reported the Mr Rahami’s wife left the United States a few days before the bombings took place. On Sunday, five explosive devices were discovered in a backpack in a trash can outside a neighborhood pub, close to where Rahami was found.
