{"id":250153,"date":"2016-09-21T11:04:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=250153"},"modified":"2016-09-21T11:04:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T11:04:46","slug":"new-york-bombing-suspect-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/new-york-bombing-suspect-charged\/","title":{"rendered":"New York bombing suspect charged"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The US has charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with planting bombs in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Thirty-one people were injured when a bomb went off in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mr Rahami was already charged by the state of New Jersey with the attempted murder of police, during his arrest.<\/p>\n
The new federal charges include use of a weapon of mass destruction, bombing, destruction of property and use of a destructive device.<\/p>\n
Unsealed in a Manhattan federal court, the charge sheet sheds new light on Mr Rahami’s motivations.<\/p>\n
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His journal apparently expressed the wish to die a martyr, the criminal complaint revealed.<\/p>\n
One passage said: “You [USA Government] continue your [unintelligible] slaught[er]” against the mujahideen, or holy warriors, be it Afghanistan, Iraq, Sham (Syria), Palestine.”<\/p>\n
Another refers in glowing terms to Osama Bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki, a US-born Muslim cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike, and Nidal Hasan, a former Army officer who killed 13 people at a Texas Army base in 2009.<\/p>\n