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New York jihad bomber found guilty, New York Times identifies him only as “New Jersey man”

Oct 16, 2017 1:37 pm By Robert Spencer

Ahmad Khan Rahimi didn’t plant these bombs because he was a “New Jersey man.” New Jersey is, as far as I know, not at war with New York City, and in any case he left bombs in New Jersey itself as well. He left these bombs because he is a Muslim who, as even the Times admits, was “drawn to online calls to jihad.” But the New York Times would rather endorse Donald Trump for reelection than identify him in accord with the motivating ideology that led him to do this in the first place.

Are authorities sure that Rahimi found calls to jihad only online? Have they investigated his local mosque? If not, why not?

“New Jersey Man Found Guilty in Chelsea Bombing,” by Michael Wilson, New York Times, October 16, 2017:

A federal jury convicted Ahmad Khan Rahimi, a loner from New Jersey drawn to online calls to jihad, of setting the explosives in the Chelsea neighborhood that blew out windows and sent shrapnel flying into buildings, cars and people during a two-day bombing campaign in and around New York City last year….

Mr. Rahimi carried multiple bombs — nine in all — but most did not explode. The first was set early that morning in a garbage can at the finish line of a United States Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, N.J. The race’s start time was delayed, however, and no one was hurt when the bomb exploded. That night, a blast occurred in Chelsea. A short time later, passers-by found a bomb on West 27th Street, which was disarmed by the police bomb squad. The next day, Mr. Rahimi returned to New Jersey, leaving six pipe bombs in a backpack at an Elizabeth, N.J., train station. They carried fuses, not timers, and they did not explode until a bomb-squad robot detonated one later.

Though no one was killed by Mr. Rahimi’s devices, because of a combination of bad luck and mistakes, the bombing spree left the region in fear for two days….

Later that night, on 27th Street, two men saw a suitcase on the sidewalk. One bent to open it, removing whatever was wrapped in a plastic bag — it was a pressure cooker with a cellphone detonator attached, packed with shrapnel. They took the empty suitcase. A neighbor passed, noticed the device and, rattled by the nearby explosion, called the police.

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  1. mccode says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 1:47 pm

    Rahimi is a U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan on Jan. 23, 1988.

    Or a loner from New Jersey.

    Which is it?

    I think we all know.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 2:15 pm

      — Rahami was born in Afghanistan in 1988 and first came to the United States in 1995, several years after his father arrived seeking asylum, a law enforcement official said.

      — He became a naturalized citizen in 2011.

      — Rahami majored in criminal justice at Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey, school spokesman Tom Peterson said. Rahami attended from 2010-2012 but did not graduate.

      WHAT A GIFT TO THE USA!

      SHOW OF HANDS … WHO WANTS MORE IMMIGRANTS LIKE RAHAMI?

      (sarc/off)

      • MARCO D says

        Oct 19, 2017 at 6:44 am

        AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE- ONCE A MUS-LIM, ONCE AN IMMAGRANT, ONCE AN ASSYLUM SEEKER- WHAT EVER WORDS YOU USE AN ISLAMIC MUSLIM A FOLLOWER OF THE QU’RAN- IS ALWAYS A TERRORIST PLAIN AND SIMPLE. GET RID OF ALL OF EM AND KEEP THE UNITED STATES SAFE. LOOK AT THE TROUBLE IN FRANCE, SPAIN. SWEDEN AND …….LETS NOT FORGET GREAT BRITAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  2. Pet Charles says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    The “online” talking point is to be used later as a pretext to attack websites that expose the sewage and filth that permeate Islamic jihad in nominally Christian or officially secular nations in the West.

  3. Deborah Sawyer says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    Give him the death penalty by guillotine. Wouldn’t that be the righteous and comparable thing to do ? After all, muzzrats like him blindly follow their pedophila ridden Quran; that says to chops heads of those that don’t follow their schizophrenic master of hell Mohammad???????

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 2:21 pm

      Muslims don’t use anything as humane as the guillotine. They use swords, or–even worse–kill their victims with throat-cutting.

  4. gravenimage says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    New York jihad bomber found guilty, New York Times identifies him only as “New Jersey man”
    …………………..

    Uh…yeah. Because every “New Jersey man” is involved with plots bombing New York City. I think it has something to do with high mortgage rates…sarc/off

  5. Jaladhi says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    This is disgusting journalism of NYTines!! Is there any difference between the liberal NYTimes and Pravada and Izvestia of Soviet Union – of course the latter two were spreading fake news for the Soviet communists and NYTimes spreads(or hides) fake news about Muslims!

    Both are in the same category of of liars. In the thirties NYTimes reporter Walter Duranty was writing glorified accounts of Soviet Union under communist regime whereas in fact there was widespread famine in Soviet Union andUkrainians were dying of mass starvation. NYTimes submitted his reporting for the Pulitzer Prizer which he won in 1932. Has NYTimes ever apologized for the lies Duranty wrote and won the Pulitzer? No, not ever!

    This Duranty Times will never change its stripe!

  6. notmoron says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 3:41 pm

    In UK he is “asian” and in USA he is ” a man”

    LUNACY!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 3:55 pm

      Yes–obfuscation over their being Muslim, either way.

    • David M says

      Oct 16, 2017 at 8:16 pm

      And if he had killed infidels while driving a van it would have been the old “van kills 30 people in city.” They do everything they can not to publish the Arab names of the perps, because they know that gives it away they are Muslim.

      I remember this case, they criticised Trump for say it was terrorism, & they wouldn’t admit it was.

  7. Carlos Danger says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 4:45 pm

    Jersey Man……..bwa ha ha ha.

  8. MFritz says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 5:20 pm

    8 letters say it all: NYTLIARS

  9. 11B40 says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 6:40 pm

    Greetings:

    Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour went with the “New Jersey man” appellation also. I guess the memo has been received.

  10. More Ham Ed says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 9:35 pm

    The NYT handbook/guidelines say don’t associate islam with violence.
    31941 deadly documented islamic terror attacks since 9/11.
    https://www.thereligionofpeace.com
    Seems as though islam (lowercase be upon it) is doing the associating.

  11. fbijihadidefender says

    Oct 16, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    Rahimi is human from New Jersey therefore he set the explosives ! A stunning finding from New York Times !

  12. Valkyrie Ziege says

    Oct 17, 2017 at 11:12 am

    ; Governor Chris Christy is a New Jersey Man, Compare, and contrast.

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