Ahmad Khan Rahami, left, was captured, right, after a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey. He was wanted in connection with the bombings in New York and New Jersey.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the 28-year old Afghan born suspect in the New York and New Jersey bombings, was charged with using “weapons of mass destruction.” Rahami was arrested for the Saturday night bombing in Chelsea, New York, as well as an explosion in Seaside Park, New Jersey, on Saturday morning and a foiled bomb attack Sunday night near a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed in the complaint that the naturalized U.S. citizen had also written that God willing, “the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets.”
“On or about September 17, 2016, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, AHMAD KHAN RAHAMI, a/k/a “Ahmad Rahimi,” the defendant, acting without lawful authority, did use and attempt to use weapons of mass destruction – namely,destructive devices as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 921 – against persons and property within the United States,” the federal complaint reads.
The other charges include Bombing a Place of Public Use, Destruction of Property by Means of Fire or Explosive and Use of a Destructive Device During and in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence. The complaint lays out the evidence that Rahami was motivated by Islamism, which he documented in a notebook he had with him when he was shot and wounded by officers in the Linden Township Police Department in New Jersey.
Mohammed Rahami, the father of bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, was walking to his car and spoke to the media in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Sept. 20, 2016. Mohammed says his son is not a terrorist and points the finger at the FBI, saying the Feds know Ahmad’s not a terrorist. (Credit: Newsday / Vic Barone)
Meanwhile, Mohammad Rahami, the suspect’s father, said Tuesday that he told the FBI twice that his son was a terrorist.
“Two years ago I called the FBI. My son, he’s doing very bad, okay? But they check it almost two months,” he said. “They say he’s not terrorist. I said okay. Now they have he’s terrorist. I say okay.”
The comments come as fears grow that Rahami did not pull off the attack by himself. Jaime Reyes, owner of “Sonia’s Beauty Color Express” in Elizabeth, just doors away from the Rahami family-owned chicken restaurant, told Fox News “he was not alone.”
“I have known him for such a long time, he was not alone,” Reyes insisted. “There is no way that Ahmad was alone in this. He made bad connections.”
Following the explosion in Chelsea, a New York neighborhood known for its gay residents–which injured 29 people on West 23rd Street at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday–police found a second, unexploded pressure cooker device four blocks away with wires and a phone attached. The device was placed in a plastic bag and is undergoing forensic reviews.
Sources told PPD the evidence indicates the devices were made by the same individual. Al Qaeda and Islamic State (ISIS) recruitment-propaganda magazines have instructed followers on how to build and detonate press cooker explosives such as those used in the Boston Marathon bombings. Law enforcement authorities said the explosives relied on flip phones as their detonators and contained shrapnel via ball bearings and BBs.
Steven Pereira / September 22, 2016
By t size of his belly looks like he was living the American dream. What was he thinking? The food outside of prision is better.
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