FBI searching for 2 men related to bombing investigation

Investigators used the cellphone connected to the device to link the bomb to 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a US citizen of Afghan descent who is now charged in connection to planting bombs in NY as well as New Jersey.

Rahami was wounded in the Monday shootout and is being held on $5.2 million bail and faces state charges of attempted murder of police officers.

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

– Rahami started talking to law enforcement this morning.

“The video depicts the lighting of the fuse, a loud noise and flames, followed by billowing smoke and laughter, ” the court documents state.

A US official tells CBS News that the wife of the suspect in the NY and New Jersey bombings is headed to the USA on a flight Wednesday night.

A Manhattan U.S. magistrate judge has refused a request by public defenders to schedule an initial appearance for the man suspected of setting off bombs in ny and New Jersey on federal charges.

The 27th Street bomb never exploded.

He is also charged with planting bombs that went off in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and his hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey, but did not injure anyone.

The FBI has released an image of two men who took a suitcase holding a bomb that didn’t explode in New York City.

The FBI says the men “allegedly located a piece of luggage on the sidewalk, removed an improvised explosive device from the luggage and then left the vicinity leaving the device behind but taking the luggage”.

The FBI has said Rahami apparently was not on its radar at the time of the bombing. He said he told the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2014 about his son’s apparent radicalization after household tensions led to a fight in which another of his sons was stabbed. Rahami has not yet been tied to any particular global terrorist network.

Ahmad Rahami, the suspect accused of planting bombs in New York City and New Jersey, is now unconscious and unable to speak with FBI case agents about the attacks, two law enforcement sources close to the investigation tell Fox News. Rahami was not prosecuted in the stabbing; a grand jury declined to indict him. “They say, ‘He’s not a terrorist.’ I said, ‘OK.’ Now they say he is a terrorist”, he continued. The FBI considers them “witnesses”.

Although federal agents have tried to question him, U.S. officials say he has not been co-operating.

The official said authorities are attempting to determine whether the person who recorded the video had specific knowledge of Rahami’s alleged plan.

Officials believe Mr Rahami was brainwashed by extremist Islamic ideology after finding a notebook when he was taken into custody. While he was in Pakistan in 2011, Rahami married a Pakistani woman.

On a trip to Pakistan in 2014, Rahami emailed his local congressman seeking help because his pregnant wife had an expired passport.

However, Rahami’s wife eventually made it to the USA – and she left before Saturday’s attacks, according to a law enforcement official. The items were shipped to a business in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, where Rahami worked until September 12.

Authorities have said Rahami had a gun and extra ammunition on him when police encountered him sleeping in the doorway of a bar in Linden Monday.

A LAWYER for an Afghan-born U.S. citizen charged with bombings last weekend in NY and New Jersey asked a federal judge to schedule his first court appearance, possibly in his hospital bed. At the time, he was employed by Summit Security, a private contractor.