“I would like people to respect my family’s privacy and let us have our peace after this tragic time”, wrote Zobyedh Rahami, who’s believed to be Ahmad Rahami’s sister.
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One of the officials said Wednesday that Ahmad Khan Rahami’s wife made a statement to authorities after walking into the U.S. Embassy in the United Arab Emirates. NBC News asked Rahami’s father.
When Mr. Rahami was captured during a shootout with the police on Monday, the authorities found a notebook, pierced with a bullet hole and covered in blood, expressing opinions sympathetic to jihadist causes, according to a law enforcement official who agreed to speak about the investigation only on the condition of anonymity.
Authorities want to talk to them and also want the piece of luggage back so they can examine it as part of the investigation. Federal prosecutors said they still were weighing charges over the bombings.
After he leaves, the video shows 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.
How did authorities find him? “Cops are the real heroes, law enforcement are the real heroes”, Bains said. 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.
“The FBI conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks, and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism”, the FBI said.
Ahmad Khan Rahami was wounded in a gun battle with Linden, New Jersey, police that erupted when he was discovered sleeping in a bar doorway. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.
If Rahami’s first court appearance occurs in the hospital bed, he would not be the first USA terrorism suspect to be charged in such a venue. Rahami left that job in 2011 because he wanted to take a trip to Afghanistan, Spriggs said.
AP spokesman Paul Colford said the news cooperative told law enforcement officials about Rahami’s work at the Cranbury facility.
An eBay account linked to Rahami bought a precursor chemical used in explosives, circuit boards and ball bearings that matched the explosives and remnants collected at the crime scenes, the documents said.
Although there has been no claim of responsibility for the NY or New Jersey bombs, a jihadist-linked news agency, Amaq, claimed that an IS “soldier” carried out the Minnesota stabbings.
“As far as whether he’s a lone actor, that’s still the path we are following, but we are keeping all the options open”, William Sweeney, the FBI’s assistant director in NY, told reporters.
“No”, Mohammad Rahami answered.
In addition to leaving the bomb that exploded on Saturday evening in the Manhattan district of Chelsea that wounded 31 people, they allege he planted a pipe bomb on the New Jersey shore that injured no one when it exploded on Saturday morning.
An explosion in the Chelsea neighborhood of NY on Saturday, September 17, 2016. Surveillance video places him in the area, and his fingerprints were on unexploded devices including a pressure-cooker bomb found blocks away from the blast.
The backpack, which contained five bombs, was found in a wastebasket around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday outside a neighborhood pub in Elizabeth, about 16 miles from New York City.
A United States law enforcement official estimated last night that Rahami will be charged with five counts of attempted murder and two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon.
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Associated Press reporters Jake Pearson in NY and Eric Tucker in Washington, D.C., contributed to this item.
