Accused bomber to be arraigned on New
Jersey charges Thursday
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[October 12, 2016]
(Reuters) - A man accused of
bombings in New York and New Jersey last month that injured dozens is
set to be arraigned on New Jersey state charges on Thursday, one of his
attorneys said on Tuesday.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was born in Afghanistan, is set to be arraigned
at the Union County Courthouse by video feed from his hospital room
where he is recovering from gunshot wounds suffered during his arrest,
Alexander Shalom said. Union County prosecutors charged Rahami with five
counts of attempted murder of a police officer and weapons charges.
Shalom, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, is
temporarily representing Rahami on separate federal charges until public
defenders can take over the case.
Rahami, 28, has been held in a Newark, New Jersey, hospital with wounds
suffered during a shootout with police on Sept. 19 when he was arrested.
He faces federal charges in both states stemming from a bombing the
previous weekend in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood that injured 31
people, and explosives found in two New Jersey locations. No one was
killed in the blasts.
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He also is accused of planting another pressure-cooker bomb in Chelsea
that failed to explode, and multiple devices at a train station in
Elizabeth, New Jersey. One of those exploded as a bomb squad robot
attempted to defuse it.
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A policeman takes a photo of a man they identified as Ahmad Khan
Rahami, who is wanted for questioning in connection with an
explosion in New York City, as he is placed into an ambulance in
Linden, New Jersey, in this still image taken from video September
19, 2016. REUTERS/Anthony Genaro/File Photo
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Authorities described Rahami as a "jihadist" who begged for
martyrdom and praised late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Rahami
bought bomb components on eBay, made a video of himself testing out
homemade explosives, and kept a journal expressing outrage at the
U.S. "slaughter" of mujahideen in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and the
Palestinian Territories, federal officials allege.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Sandra
Maler)
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