But the father later retracted the claim and told investigators he just meant his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd.
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An FBI analysis of fingerprints recovered from the materials contained in the backpack showed a positive match to Rahami, the complaint states.
Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. Rahami was wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of ny and the New Jersey sho.
It was “premature” to answer those questions but law enforcement officials are “most certainly are exploring that”, MacArthur said on a conference call with reporters o following a briefing with Michael B. Steinbach, executive assistant director of the FBI’s national security branch.
The FBI’s Miami office had investigated Omar Mateen, the man who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando in June and expressed allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State organization, for 10 months and interviewed him twice but found no evidence of a crime or connection with a militant group.
AP spokesman Paul Colford said the AP told law enforcement officials about Rahami’s work at the Cranbury facility. Justice Department guidelines restrict the types of actions agents may take; they can not, for instance, record phone calls without obtaining a higher level of approval or developing more grounds for suspicion.
Rahami, 28, was taken into custody in Linden, New Jersey, on Monday morning after a shootout with police that occurred hours after police issued an alert looking for him.
Ahmad Rahami’s father says he called the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago when his son was acting violently. “We’re going after the bad guys, and we’re going to get them, but we’re not going after an entire religion”, she said, adding, “We know that Donald Trump’s comments have been used online for the recruitment of terrorists”.
US Investigators yesterday continued to probe who knew about the alleged NY bomber’s terror plot – after it emerged that his wife and mum fled the country before the attacks. Ahmad Khan Rahami and at least two Linden police officers were injured. Rahami was not prosecuted in the stabbing; a grand jury declined to indict him.
For allegedly planting and detonating the devices, Rahami has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, bombing, destruction of property, and using a destructive device in the state of NY.
The official, and other US security sources, said Rahami underwent additional security screening upon returning from overseas but passed each time.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is the first to bring federal charges against the accused terrorist, who has yet to be charged in New Jersey for allegedly setting several pipe bombs in Seaside Park and Elizabeth. A robot trying to disarm the device inadvertently detonated one of the bombs, but no one was injured. Then a shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bomb exploded Saturday night in New York’s Chelsea section, wounding 31 people, none seriously.
“A reference, on a page that is largely unintelligible, to “pipe bombs” and a ‘pressure cooker bomb, ‘ and the partial sentence: ‘in the streets they plan to run a mile'”.
On Sunday, multiple explosive devices were found inside a backpack near the entrance of the New Jersey Transit station in Elizabeth at around 8:40 p.m.
A law enforcement source confirmed to CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that the name of Ahmad Rahami’s wife is Asia Bibi Rahami. They said he worked there until September 12, but didn’t identify the store. In a handwritten journal, he warned that bombs would resound in the streets and prayed he’d be martyred rather than caught, authorities say.
New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill, said on Tuesday that “the investigation can focus on other aspects, such as whether this individual acted alone and what his motivations may have been”.
Emirati officials in Dubai and the federal capital Abu Dhabi said they had no information on her. One of the officials, who specializes in counter-terrorism, said the “secondary” screening included asking Rahami where he had gone and for what objective. Officials say he took extended trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2011 – and visited Kandahar and the Taliban stronghold of Quetta. Still, some of the restaurant’s customers said Rahami was more likely to talk about his interest in cars.
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He is married to a Pakistani woman and brought her to the U.S. as his wife, said the official.
