U.S. Charges N.Y. Bombing Suspect, Cites Views in His Notebook Ahmad Khan Rahami’s writing claimed the U.S. was at war with MuslimsBy Devlin Barrett and Pervaiz Shallwani See note please
http://www.wsj.com/articles/n-y-bombing-suspects-father-accused-him-of-being-a-terrorist-in-2014-1474396860
Oh Puleez! What have we a jihadist multitasker ? And we are being led to believe that he acted alone and not part of a cell? rsk
The Justice Department filed charges late Tuesday against bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, saying that he ordered many of his explosive components online and raged in a journal against what he viewed as U.S. attacks on Muslims.
Mr. Rahami, who is suspected of setting off homemade bombs in New York and New Jersey last weekend, including one in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood that injured 31 people, was captured on Monday after a gunfight with police in Linden, N.J. The charges filed in Manhattan federal court included use of weapons of mass destruction, bombing a public place, destruction of property using an explosive, and using an explosive in furtherance of a crime.
Nearly identical charges were filed against him by federal prosecutors in New Jersey Tuesday, though officials said they planned to try him first in New York.
The 13-page criminal complaint contains excerpts from a blood-soaked notebook found on the suspect after he was arrested. The writings—parts of which are difficult to read because pages are covered in the suspect’s blood, officials said—suggest he was inspired by terrorists at home and abroad and looked to avenge a U.S. war on Muslims.
“You [US government] continue your [unintelligible] slaught[er] against the mujahidean be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham [Syria], Palestine,” he wrote, according to the complaint. In another section of the notebook, he allegedly wrote that his guidance came from radical jihadist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki who “said it clearly attack the kuffar [nonbelievers] in their backyard.” CONTINUE AT SITE
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