NY, NJ Bombing Suspect Rahami in Custody After Shootout
Source: NBC
Ahmad Rahami a 28-year-old naturalized Afghanistan citizen was taken into custody by police in Linden, New Jersey, a senior law enforcement official said.
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At least one police officer apparently shot. Not many details yet.
brooklynite
(93,851 posts)Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
LisaL
(44,962 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)arresting them for?
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)I swear that about half of the people in this country think it would be pretty cool to live in some sort of horrible sci-fi dystopia. Maybe they think it would help validate their continual feelings of emptiness and misery that they can't explain.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)and so quickly!
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)which implies he has a criminal record, or has been under surveillance.
Oh shit, even simpler - this guy was not a criminal mastermind:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-emerging-part-of-the-story
So the video and fignerprints may just have been confirmatory.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)That's some Moriarty-level criminal scheming, right there, I tell ya.
Are we sure this guy isn't some Trump surrogate? The level of scholarship and deep thinking is about the same.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Supermax is waiting.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)What are the chances of 2 (old-style) Beetles and a Camper van being in the same picture, these days?
Off topic, I watched "The Quatermass Xperiment" (correct spelling: when the film version was, absurdly, given an 'X' certificate, the producers thought they've play up to that by dropping the 'E' from the title. And thus Hammer Films was born ...) over the weekend. At the start, the fire brigade turn up to douse the returned space rocket in a fire engine that looks like it was built in the 1920s. And then Professor Quatermass rocks up - in a VW camper van (film made about 1955). It's amazing that one vehicle can span that amount of time ...
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)ozone82
(91 posts)A Formula VEE, could be wrong though.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I do hope this is not gonna turn out to be another FBI encouraged incident.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)https://www.themarshallproject.org/2016/01/08/my-life-in-the-supermax#.0wyGckuUz
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)They should keep him in ADX Florence with zero human contact until he rips his own carotids out with his fingernail clippings.
PSPS
(13,512 posts)yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)if you have a beard SHAVE
if you don't have a beard DON'T SHAVE
Coventina
(26,852 posts)Kind of hard to shave it off when you are willing to kill others for shaving theirs.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)AppSame @AppSame
Ahmad Khan Rahami
Help the @FBI catch this Terrorist
He's With Her
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)How come he could get a gun? Trump supports his right to arm himself to the nines. (If you are going to respond I'd go with that angle.)
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)so, he may be "with him".
LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)How patriotic can it get LOL.
However, the place had gotten too noisy etc. at all hours and that's when trouble with local govt. started.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)And felt persecuted/harassed/abused because of their religion.
This sense of hopelessness and powerlessness plays a huge part in the radicalization process. It opens the door to let evil in.
Trump's rhetoric and the nonsense from people like him is exactly what helps create terrorists right here on US soil.
Very glad no one died from all of this. Hopefully any others are found quickly.
anamandujano
(7,004 posts)they are deplorable.
Trump will be using anything and everything like this to fertilize his swamp with hate and fear.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Nobody needs this impotent (according to his last wife), racist, lunatic.
MowCowWhoHow III
(2,103 posts)If he was part of a cell, and as he's been taken alive, the remaining members may expedite proceedings.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Its a semi-mystery thats over eight decades long: who set fire to the Reichstag, the German parliament, on Feb. 27, 1933?
As described in the Mar. 6, 1933, issue of TIME, the arson came amid a campaign of unparalleled violence and bitterness by then-Chancellor Adolf Hitler, in advance of an approaching German election, and it turned a building that was as famous through Germany as is the dome of the Capitol in Washington among U. S. citizens into a glowing hodge-podge of incandescent girders.
Marinus van der Lubbe, an unemployed Dutch bricklayer linked to the Communist party, was tried and executed for the crime the following year, but even then TIME questioned whether the Nazis who held him responsible were also the ones who had paid him to set the fire, promising to save his neck by a Presidential reprieve and to reward him handsomely for hiding their identity and taking the whole blame in court.
In 1981, a West Berlin court declared that the trial had been a miscarriage of justice, though they stopped short of saying that he had been innocent. In 2001, evidence emerged that the conspiracy theory had been right along, with historians announcing that the Nazis had been the ones responsible for the fire, ..............
http://time.com/3717003/reichstag-fire-1933/
B2G
(9,766 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)uppityperson
(115,674 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)Go ahead and say it. Stop hinting at things.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)At least that is how false flag events usually are conducted
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Hello, Enabling Act, goodbye democracy...
We must keep that subhuman psychopathic cockroach Trump out of the Oval Office at all costs.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,150 posts)They need a way to get their more bloodthirsty supporters up in arms, and themselves hard.
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)if it happens when their side is in charge, we better prove we're on their side, and they better get full cooperation to increase their executive powers to deal with this threat, and "the attacks were attacks on them, only".
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)His followers are in love with him and the old chancellor.
7962
(11,841 posts)It couldnt have been the islamist who was actually in a shootout with cops
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)No doubt, your own speculation, aside from giving you the warm and fuzzies, is as effective, as relevant and as prophetic as are the speculations of anyone else... and certainly validates your own biases. So, yeah... win-win for you!
7962
(11,841 posts)Oneironaut
(5,461 posts)In fact, this seems pretty simple. It wouldn't be hard to do what this terrorist did at all. Comparing these attacks to the Reichstag fire is a ludicrous hyperbole.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)But hey everyone, let your minds run wild ........... which is exactly the problem I'm pointing to.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)Maybe they can gain some insight from him.
uppityperson
(115,674 posts)zonkers
(5,865 posts)for terrorists about what mistakes to avoid. Video detection, exit routes, finger prints on devices. Yes, I know all this stuff seems obvious and its understandable that this stuff is transparently shared by authorities but still!
Democat
(11,617 posts)And it could be false information.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)after Malaysian Air jet vanished.
One advantage we have is these guys are usually not well schooled or bright. Setting off your explosive device INSIDE a metal dumpster is an indicator in this case. We should keep them in the dark as much as possible about our techniques.
Indeed, sometimes an ineffective attack is a "test" to see exactly how we respond. We learned that from clinic bombers back in the day.
7962
(11,841 posts)too much explaining tactics etc
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Dudes hatch bomb plot, manage to set off maybe two, no deaths, all injured already hospital-released, two bombs ID'ed and stopped before detonation, and suspect(s) tracked down inside of 48 hours.
Obviously, you'd like 100% prevention, but barring that, this is a pretty spectacular result, no?
Satch59
(1,353 posts)Our "government" is working...no way around any claims that we're a mess...
What's Trump's response now??
Mc Mike
(9,106 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)get the red out
(13,459 posts)Hopefully they can determine if he acted alone or had accomplices.
lark
(23,003 posts)Drumpf must be so disappointed, the murderous bigot.