WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Mohammad Rahami told ABC News that his wife and one of his other sons were stopped in the United Arab Emirates on their trip home to the United States from Afghanistan and subsequently sent back to Kabul.
If law enforcement authorities want to question his wife and son, Najiba and Qassim Rahami, they should do so in the United States because both are US citizens, Mohammad Rahami said.
One bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey and another in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood. No one was hurt in Seaside Park, but the Chelsea blast injured 31 people. A day later, a police robot accidentally detonated a third device, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
According to prosecutors’ court filings, Rahami bought bomb parts on auction website eBay. An investigation of social media accounts used by the suspect revealed that he posted videos praising jihad, prosecutors assert.
On Tuesday, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey told a US Senate committee that there so far is no indication Ahmed Rahami is part of a terror cell.
