The United States charged an Afghan-born American restaurant worker, who was critically wounded in a police shootout, with detonating and planting bombs in New York and New Jersey. He will be transported to Manhattan to face the charges, said federal prosecutors in New York. Surveillance footage also put him in Chelsea, and Rahami bought the ingredients for the bombs from eBay over the summer, prosecutors said. She left the United States shortly before Saturday’s attacks and was stopped in the United Arab Emirates, US media reported. Another line of inquiry may be whether the family’s tussles over their business could have played a role in radicalizing Rahami.

Source: Manila Times September 21, 2016 03:45 UTC