NYC bombing suspect charged with using 'weapon of mass destruction'
Federal prosecutors have charged Ahmad Khan Rahami with planting a series of bombs in New York and New Jersey, including one that injured 31 people when it blew up on a busy street.
The criminal complaint was unsealed Tuesday at a federal court in Manhattan, charging Rahami with four counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction.
Rahami was captured Monday after being wounded in a gunfight with police in Linden, New Jersey. He remains hospitalized.
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Rahami is already facing state charges in connection with the shootout.
Federal officials say Rahami bought bomb ingredients on eBay and wrote "Death To Your OPPRESSION" in a journal.
The complaint includes excerpts from a handwritten journal authorities say they he wrote. It says the writer lauded Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike, and Nidal Hasan, the former U.S. Army major who went on a 2009 rampage at the Fort Hood military installation.
Prosecutors say the document ends: "The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gun shots to your police. Death To Your OPPRESSION."
Investigators say Rahami planted two bombs in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. One didn't go off. Another bomb exploded harmlessly in a New Jersey seaside town earlier the same day.
The complaint also accuses him of leaving another set of explosives in a trash bin by a train station in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
