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NY jihad bomber praised Osama, Awlaki, and Nidal Hasan, said “the sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets”

Sep 21, 2016 10:49 am By Robert Spencer

“The FBI has said Rahami apparently was not on its radar at the time of the bombing. But he was in 2014, when the FBI opened up an “assessment” — its least intrusive form of inquiry — based on comments from his father after a domestic dispute, the bureau said in a statement. ‘The FBI conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism,’ the bureau said.”

The Obama FBI, bound as it is by an explicit policy ruling out any mention of “Islam” or “jihad” in connection with terrorism, wouldn’t recognize “ties to terrorism” if they screamed “Allahu akbar” and blew themselves up in FBI headquarters.

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“Bomb suspect vowed ‘death to your oppression,’ feds say,” by Eric Tucker, Larry Neumeister and Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press, September 21, 2016:

NEW YORK (AP) — He bought bomb ingredients on eBay and recorded a mirthful video of himself igniting a blast in a backyard. In a handwritten journal, he warned that bombs would resound in the streets and prayed he’d be martyred rather than caught, authorities say.

Ahmad Khan Rahami’s jihad journal ended with a stark message, according to court papers:

“Death to your oppression.”

Federal court complaints filed Tuesday gave a chilling glimpse into what authorities say motivated the Afghan-born U.S. citizen to set off explosives last weekend in New York City and New Jersey, including a bomb that injured 31 people in Manhattan. The blasts came two years after the FBI looked into him but came up with nothing tying him to terrorism.

Rahami remains hospitalized with gunshot wounds from a shootout with police that led to his capture Monday outside a bar in Linden, New Jersey. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer who could comment on the charges against him, which include federal terror crimes and state charges of attempting to murder police officers.

Rahami ordered citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters on eBay and had them delivered to a Perth Amboy, New Jersey, business where he worked until Sept. 12, the court complaints said. San Jose, California-based eBay Inc. noted that the products are legal and widely available and said the company had worked with law enforcement on the investigation.

Just two days before Saturday’s bombings, a relative’s cell phone recorded Rahami igniting incendiary material in a cylinder buried in a backyard, the fuse being lighted, a loud noise and flames, “followed by billowing smoke and laughter,” the complaints said.

And the complaints said in his bloodied journal — damaged by shots from his gun battle with police — he fumed that the U.S. government was slaughtering Muslim holy warriors and alluded to plans for revenge.

One portion expressed concern at the prospect of being caught before being able to carry out a suicide attack and the desire to be a martyr. Another section included a reference to “pipe bombs” and a “pressure cooker bomb” and declared: “In the streets they plan to run a mile,” an apparent reference to one of the blast sites, a charity run in Seaside Park, New Jersey.

“The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets,” the journal declared.

There also were laudatory references to Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki — the American-born Muslim cleric who was killed in a 2011 drone strike and whose preaching has inspired other acts of violence — and Nidal Hasan, the former Army officer who went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas, the complaints said.

The FBI has said Rahami apparently was not on its radar at the time of the bombing. But he was in 2014, when the FBI opened up an “assessment” — its least intrusive form of inquiry — based on comments from his father after a domestic dispute, the bureau said in a statement.

“The FBI conducted internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple interviews, none of which revealed ties to terrorism,” the bureau said….

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  1. miriamrove says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 10:59 am

    And his father did not know any of this. Taqqey in action. m

  2. jihad3tracker says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 11:28 am

    Am I the only one who noticed how totally depressed Hillary Clinton looked in the brief comment (aboard her campaign jet) that she made over the weekend very soon after the NYC main bomb blast in Chelsea?

    Before saying that to the media, she silently prayed “Please, God, don’t let this be a Muslim, even though it certainly is. Please, God, don’t let him be captured alive. Please, God, don’t let this guy have a beard and look just like what Americans think a jihadi resembles.

    And, finally, PLEASE, GOD, DON’T LET HIM HAVE A JOURNAL OF COMMENTS ABOUT HOW HE HATES US !!!!!!!!”

    But, the Almighty, who actually DOES want the United States to survive and continue to be the last strong bastion for Christians and Jews, denied those fervent requests. And I have it on good authority that HE also enjoys Trump’s sense of humor, and his commitment to maintaining a very difficult hairstyle.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 21, 2016 at 1:24 pm

      Do you really think she prays to *God* ? I see her more as invoking Beelzebub. 🙂

      • jihad3tracker says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 2:01 pm

        Hello again Mirren — I was giving her the benefit of the doubt, tied with desperation induced by the absolute worst timing: the bomb jihad so close to the first debate.

        BTW, if you want to read one of the most wretched pieces of leftist slime ever put up on the web, Google this or its variation: “Clinton talks about her Methodist faith” — written around 7 or 8 years ago.

  3. Angemon says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Rahami ordered citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters on eBay and had them delivered to a Perth Amboy, New Jersey, business where he worked until Sept. 12, the court complaints said. San Jose, California-based eBay Inc. noted that the products are legal

    So… ban all citric acid, ball bearings and electronic igniters?

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 21, 2016 at 12:23 pm

      As the brilliant blogger Daniel Greenberg said in Robert’s recent Jamie Glazov Moment post here on JW, “If you get Islamic immigration, you get Islamic terror. They sort of go together like peanut butter and jelly.” (At 1:05 in that Glazov video.)

      Thus, Angemon, using rigorous logic: If we want to avoid banning useful things like citric acid [preserves the olives in Greek restaurants], ball bearings [keep American aircraft engines smoothly spinning] and electronic igniters [enable very brave Thanksgiving cooks to deep fry turkeys] I suggest banning future Muslim entry to the U.S.

      • Mirren10 says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 1:21 pm

        “If you get Islamic immigration, you get Islamic terror. They sort of go together like peanut butter and jelly.”

        I prefer dumbledoresarmy’s more succinct; ”Got muslims ? Got jihad !”

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