Posted on 09/20/2016 8:23:26 AM PDT by Jyotishi
Investigations have revealed that Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, the Afghan-born naturalised United States citizen since 2011 and New York and New Jersey bombings suspect, had married a Pakistani woman and had made at least three months-long trips to both Pakistan and Afghanistan since 2014.
His Pakistani-origin wife left the US just days before the attacks and authorities are now working with Pakistani and United Arab Emirates officials to get access to her, media reports said on Tuesday.
US authorities are working with his wife's home country of Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates in order to question the woman about what she might have known about the acts of terror, CNN reported, quoting an unnamed official as saying.
His wife, whose name has not been revealed, was able to enter the country but left the US just days before the terrorist attacks her husband is suspected of carrying out.
What was his motive? Was he working alone? Why did he make lengthy trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan?
These are among the questions that have emerged in the wake of the capture of the man suspected of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey over the weekend, the report said.
Rahami was not initially cooperative with police who tried to interview him, a law enforcement official said.
Authorities believe the ‘main guy’ has been caught but the investigation continues to determine if Rahami had help, the report quoted sources as saying.
Though Federal Bureau of Investigation Assistant Director William F Sweeney Jr, said there is ‘no indication’ of an active operating terror cell in the New York area, evidence suggests Rahami was not acting alone, sources said.
Authorities said Rahami is ‘directly linked’ to bombings on Saturday in New York City and Seaside Park, New Jersey, and he is believed to be connected to pipe bombs found in a backpack Sunday night in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Rahami was charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose on Monday, according to the Union County (New Jersey) prosecutor’s office.
Rahami was wounded in a shootout with police in Linden, New Jersey, on Monday.
Rahami was identified through a fingerprint, a senior law enforcement official said. Evidence from the cell phone on the pressure cooker also led to Rahami’s identification.
Rahami first came to the United States in 1995 as a child, after his father arrived, seeking asylum, and became a naturalised US citizen in 2011, according to a law enforcement official who reviewed his travel and immigration record.
Rahami traveled for long periods to Afghanistan and Pakistan in the last five years, officials said. While in Pakistan in July 2011, he married a Pakistani woman. Two years later, in April 2013, he went to Pakistan and remained there until March 2014, visiting Afghanistan before returning to the United States.
Upon returning from both visits he told officials he was visiting family, satisfying any concerns immigration officials had at the time.
Image: Ahmad Khan Rahami has been charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. Photograph: New Jersey State Police/Reuters
A young man with a foreign lineage takes a trip to Pakistan as a young man...and becomes radicalized.
Where have I heard that one before?
What policy changes are expected from the wife interview? Tactical actions?
in April 2013, he went to Pakistan and remained there until March 2014,
Nice Vaca, huh.
She knew. She said nothing. She flew the coop.
Three more long trips since then.
That would be the Pah-kee-stahn that Obama recalls so lovingly. The same place that the woman terrorist in San Bernadino came from. How many of these do we have roaming our country? Don’t expect to see any stats on that, since the immigration system has been promoting open borders since the days of Bill Clinton’s Doris Meisner let in all the 9/11 terrorists on visas to learn to pilot planes. You just have to marvel that our nation has endured the ignoramuses in high office for decades.
I want his wife immediately extradited!! In fact where is Omar Mateen’s wife that drove him to the Orlando gay bar? Her name is Noor Salman? Why has she not been apprehended? The answer is that these wives keep the attention on Islam and that is where the attention belongs ( because there is no other motivation) but the one worlder’s don’t want that. Where is Noor Salman. wife and possible accomplice of Omar Mateen the greatest mass shooter in history? Who is in charge here ? Where are these wives? Why are the let go?
Moslems are the problem.
Not only did she fly the coop .. SHE LEFT A DAY OR 2 BEFORE THE ATTACK .. which means SHE KNEW what he was going to do and she went home to HIDE.
This is why I agree with Trump’s idea of STOPPING ALL IMMIGRATION .. LONG ENOUGH TO FIND OUT WHO IS REALLY HERE AND WHAT THEIR MOTIVES ARE.
THE LEFT WILL HATE IT .. WHO CARES ..!!!!
It’s a surprise, but only for the govt. investigators and the media. The rest of us and Trump go with our ‘gut’ and know the truth.
Obama just told us that the world has never been more peaceful and prosperous, so we can just relax. It is all in capable hands.
Yes. The question is, did “Obama” get radicalized in Pock-ee-ston?
Same here. Go Trump!
Islamberg, New York
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Islamberg is a rural hamlet in the town of Tompkins, Delaware County, New York, United States, founded by Mubarak Ali Gilani, a Pakistani Sufi cleric. The hamlet was founded in the late 1980s by Gilani and a group of primarily African American Muslims who left New York City, reportedly to escape crime, poverty and racism. They built a com…
No there are no known terror cells in New York......pfffffft
"His Pakistani-origin wife left the US just days before the attacks"
Also of note,
"FBI agents arrested five men who may be connected to Saturday’s bombing in Chelsea after stopping their car in Brooklyn, sources said.These five were tracked down because according to the UKDailyMail:The men were heading over the Verrazano Bridge from Staten Island when they were stopped Sunday night. Sources said the FBI suspected the men may have had a role in the bombing and were questioning them at the FBI headquarters in Manhattan.
It is believed the men, who live in New Jersey, were heading to the airport when they were busted.
After zeroing in on Rahami and learning of the car that had traveled between New Jersey and New York, authorities pulled it over Sunday night after it headed in the direction of Kennedy airport. The law enforcement officials said at least one of Rahami's relatives was in the car.
All five were questioned and released, Sweeney said. He declined to say whether they might later face charges.
After surgery for a gunshot wound to his leg, Rahami is being held on $5.2million bail, charged with five counts of attempted murder of police officers.
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All five detained by the FBI were released despite the fact that it was reported they were heading towards JFK international airport. Which of the five were expecting to travel? Why and Where where were they intending on flying? Did any of the five have flight tickets with them?
This Muslim should never have been allowed out of Afghan as he is military age. Why do we have this punk terrorist here while our military fights in Afghan. Same with these DAMN Syrians O blowhard let in. Send the bas-—rds home.
This Muslim should never have been allowed out of Afghan as he is military age. Why do we have this punk terrorist here while our military fights in Afghan. Same with these DAMN Syrians O blowhard let in. Send the bas-—rds home.
They are here because President of the United States is letting them in.
Obama has said many times he wants to fundamentally change America. We now know what that means.
Hussein was raised as a Muslim in Indonnesia. For him to sell out to Muslim terrorists is easy to explain, he's in the White House because he did.
The Muslim terrorists cannot compete with the US on the battlefield but by allowing massive numbers of Muslims into the US, they are eventually guaranteed victory.
Get out your Koran and start studying. You too may soon have to cite Muslim verses to stay alive.
I have no Koran. Wasting Muslims could prove enjoyable.
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