New York – U.S. prosecutors charged an Afghan-born man arrested after weekend attacks in New York and New Jersey with four counts, including use of weapons of mass destruction and bombing a public place, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
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Federal officials say Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man charged with planting explosives in New York City and New Jersey, bought bomb ingredients on eBay and wrote “Death To Your OPPRESSION” in a journal.
A criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan charging Rahami with four counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction.
The complaint includes excerpts from a handwritten journal authorities say they he wrote.
It says the writer lauded Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike, and Nidal Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who went on a 2009 rampage at the Fort Hood military installation.
Prosecutors say the document ends: “The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gun shots to your police. Death To Your OPPRESSION.”
It wasn’t immediately clear whether Rahami had a lawyer who could comment on the charges.
Are they still saying it wasn’t terrorism? At one stage they said it might be domestic terrorism but not international terrorism.
Somebody needs to send Barry Hussein the memo that the best way not to succumb to fear is to name the enemy and defeat him.
WMD? What fools. Rather prosecute successive US Presidents for using scatter bombs and the like all over the world.