Men Who Found Pressure Cooker Bomb Had No ‘Clue’ What It Was

Surveillance video indicates the men allegedly located a piece of luggage on the sidewalk, removed an improvised explosive device from the luggage and then left the vicinity.

Federal prosecutors in NY and New Jersey have charged him in a series of explosions, including one in Manhattan that injured more than 30 people.

If it is not possible for Rahami’s physical appearance in court because of the continuing medical treatment, Patton said an attorney from his office could represent the suspect in a telephone or video conference.

“I called the Federal Bureau of Investigation two years ago”, the father told reporters at the family’s restaurant in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

A senior law enforcement official said the woman, Asia Bibi Rahami, has been cooperative “to a certain degree”.

Rahami remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds from a shootout with police that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey. But the father later told investigators he just meant his son was hanging out with the wrong crowd, the officials said. The men are considered “witnesses” and are not in danger of being arrested, officials said Wednesday.

Rahami, in parts of his journal, praised “Brother” Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader slain in a 2011 US raid in Pakistan; Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Muslim cleric and leading al-Qaeda propagandist who was killed in a 2011 US drone strike in Yemen; and Nidal Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.

A law enforcement official says investigators have not yet been able to question the man charged with planting bombs in NY and New Jersey because of the severity of his injuries.

The two left the device on the street and took the bag.

Investigators do not have a clear timeline on when Ahmad Khan Rahami will face justice.

Describing Rahami’s actions “premeditated act of terrorism, ” Bharara said Rahami would soon be transferred to NY to face the terror charges.

Ahmad Khan Rahami vowed to martyr himself rather than be caught after setting off explosives in NY and New Jersey, and he’d hoped in a handwritten journal championing jihad that “the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”, authorities said Tuesday as they filed federal terrorism charges against him.