Rahami journal: ‘The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets’

Awlaki was also the man behind al-Qaeda’s Inspire Magazine, that exhorts would-be jihadists to action with articles like “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom”, and included recipes for pressure-cooker bombs, similar to those found in NY and New Jersey last weekend.

The blast propelled the dumpster more than 120 feet (36 meters) from the detonation site, shattering windows approximately 400 feet away and vertically more than three stories high.

He provided details of the attack, seemingly writing about the marathon in New Jersey that they “are planning to run a mile”, and adding the types of bombs he would use.

Rahami ordered citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters on eBay and had them delivered to a Perth Amboy, N.J., business where he worked until September 12, the court complaints said.

The credit address was the same Perth Amboy address listed by Rahami as his home in 2012.

Federal investigators uncovered a social media account tied to the suspect Rahami. Cell phone video recovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation allegedly shows Rahami igniting an explosive device in his Elizabeth, New Jersey backyard, followed by “billowing smoke and laughter”. The same username, at a different email service provider, was listed with the phone’s manufacturer.

Special Agent Licata says that video recovered from a cellphone belonging to one of Rahami’s family members shows the bombing suspect igniting incendiary material in a cylindrical container partially buried in the ground of a backyard. The pressure cooker on 27th Street had 12 of Rahami’s fingerprints on it, according to law enforcement officials, but other fingerprints were on the device as well. Rahami had his journal with him when he was captured.

“You (USA government) continue your…..slaught against….mujahideen be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham (Syria), Palestine… etc”, Rahami writes.

In what federal investigators called “an expression of concern at the prospect of being caught before being able to carry out a suicide attack”, a passage in the notebook reads “the F.B.I”.

The journal also recalled looking for guidance on attacking non-believers where they live, according to the affidavit. Guidance came from Sheikh Anwar…

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, brandished what he said was a photocopy of pages from the notebook at a news conference Wednesday, saying, “It’s clear from this journal that Mr. Rahami was receiving inspiration from the ISIS spokesman”.

Awlaki acted as a spokesman for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula before being targeted and killed by a U.S. airstrike in 2011.

It also praised Anwar al-Awlaki, a notorious preacher and Al Qaeda recruiter, Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al Qaeda, and Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people in a 2009 shooting at Ft.

“Inshallah the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets”, Rahami wrote in the last line of his journal. He was arrested after a manhunt that ended when he was shot and wounded by police, a blood-soaked notebook in his possession.