Yesterday officials arrested Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected of setting off multiple bombs in New York and New Jersey.
As investigators comb through Rahami’s life, including multiple visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan, we are now learning that the suspect’s father actually called the FBI 2 years ago regarding his son’s violent tendencies.
From Fox News:
The father of the man suspected in the New York and New Jersey bomb blasts claimed Tuesday he called the FBI on his own son two years ago, as multiple news agencies reported that officers found a journal pierced with a bullet hole after the shootout that ended with the suspect in handcuffs.
Ahmad Khan Rahami’s father, Mohammad, spoke to reporters outside his home in Elizabeth, N.J. “Two years I called the FBI, my son, he’s doing very bad, OK? But they check it almost two months… They say he’s not a terrorist. I said, ‘OK.’ Now they say he is a terrorist. I say, ‘OK.'”
Investigators said they believed the 28-year-old suspect planted bombs in New York City, as well as Elizabeth and Seaside Park, N.J. One of the devices exploded in Manhattan Saturday night, wounding 29 people.
Rahami’s father said that two years ago, his son “was doing bad. Yeah, he stabbed my son, he hit my wife and I put him to jail two years ago.”
Mohammad Rahami added that Ahmad stabbed his brother Nasser “for no reason.” The father then got into an SUV and drove away.
This is not the first time that the FBI investigated a suspected terrorist but failed to stop him before the attack. Is the Obama administration to blame for letting Rahami slip through the cracks? Share your thoughts below!