Courtesy of Mish.
NY, NJ bombing suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent, was wounded and captured wounded in a Police Shootout in Linden, New Jersey.
With the bombing attack in New York, multiple failed bombings in New Jersey and New York, and an ISIS-claimed knife attack in a a Minnesota mall, terrorism and migration issues are once again in the US presidential election spotlight.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in bombings in New York and New Jersey, is now in custody after a shootout with police, sources said.
The shootout happened Monday in Linden, New Jersey. Rahami was shot and was taken to an ambulance in a stretcher with his right shoulder bloodied and bandaged.
Two officers were hit in the shootout with Rahami, the mayor of the nearby city of Elizabeth said. One officer’s vest was struck, and the other was shot in the hand.
Investigators first identified Rahami Sunday afternoon, a senior law enforcement official told CNN Monday. They were able to identify him through a fingerprint, the official said. The cell phone on the pressure cooker device found at the 27th street location in Manhattan also provided some clues, the official added.
The most destructive incident took place Saturday night in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood, where 29 people were injured.
Earlier Saturday, a garbage can exploded near the starting line of a Marine Corps charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey.
And on Sunday night, a backpack with multiple bombs inside was found in Elizabeth, New Jersey around 9:30 p.m. Sunday in a wastebasket outside a neighborhood pub — about 500 feet from a train trestle, officials said.
It contained up to five devices, Elizabeth Mayor Chris Bollwage said. The two men who found the backpack thought it might contain something valuable, but they alerted police when they saw wires and a pipe on the devices, the mayor said. “The robot that went in to disarm it, cut a wire and it exploded,” Bollwage said.
Pressure Cooker Bomb
The above pressure cooker bomb failed to explode in New York.
Video of Chelsea, Manhattan Bombing
Bomb Dismantling Robot Fails to Disarm Device
