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Denton Record-Chronicle
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Suspect charged in N.Y., N.J. bombings
cerns his son might be a terror-
ist, law enforcement officials
said Tuesday. During the inqui-
ry, the father backed away from
talk of terrorism and told inves-
tigators that he simply meant his
son was hanging out with the
wrong crowd, including gang
members, and acting like a thug,
the officials said.
In any case, the FBI checked
its databases and other sources
and closed the inquiry in a mat-
ter of weeks after seeing nothing
tying the Afghan-born U.S. citi-
zen to terrorism, three law en-
forcement officials said.
Also Tuesday, investigators
disclosed that when Rahami
was shot and captured, he had a
notebook with him that con-
tained extremist ramblings.
One bloodstained section
contained references to both
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.
Investigators are looking into
Rahami’s overseas travel, in-
cluding a visit to Pakistan a few
years ago, and want to know
whether he received any money
or training from extremist orga-
nizations.
Rahami’s father, Moham-
mad Rahami, spoke with the
he said: “No. And the FBI, they
know that.”
The disclosure of the father’s
contacts with the FBI raises
questions about whether there
was anything more law enforce-
ment could have done at the
time to determine whether Ra-
hami had terrorist aspirations.
That issue arose after the Or-
lando massacre in June, when
FBI Director James Comey said
agents a few years earlier had
looked into the gunman, Omar
Mateen, but did not find enough
information to pursue charges
or keep him under investigation.
In Rahamis case, the law en-
forcement official said the FBI
had opened up an “assessment,”
the least intrusive form of an
FBI inquiry. Justice Department
guidelines restrict the types of
actions agents may take; they
cannot, for instance, record
phone calls without obtaining a
higher level of approval or devel-
oping more grounds for suspi-
cion.
By Eric Tucker, Larry
Neumeister and Jennifer Peltz
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Bombing
suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami
was charged Tuesday with
planting a series of explosives in
New York and New Jersey, in-
cluding one that injured more
than two dozen people when it
blew up on a busy Manhattan
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A federal criminal complaint
was unsealed Tuesday as more
details emerged about the Af-
ghan-born U.S. citizen’s past, in-
cluding the disclosure that the
FBI had looked into him in 2014
but came up with nothing.
Before the federal charges
were filed, Rahmani, 28, was al-
ready being held on $5.2 million
bail, charged with the attempted
murder of police officers during
the shootout that led to his cap-
ture Monday outside a bar in
Linden, New Jersey.
It wasn’t immediately clear
whether Rahami had a lawyer
who could comment on the
charges. He remained hospital-
ized with gunshot wounds to the
leg, forearm and shoulder.
Federal agents have attempt-
ed to question Rahami in the
hospital. But Rep. Tom MacAr-
thur, R-N. J., who received a clas-
sified briefing from the FBI, said
Rahami was not cooperating.
The FBI’s 2014 inquiry began
after his father expressed con-
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U.S. Rep. Albio Sires, center left, D-8th District, N.J., answers a question as he stands outside
the First American Fried Chicken restaurant Tuesday in Elizabeth, N.J. The Elizabeth estab-
lishment and the apartment above are tied to Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was arrested as a
suspect in the weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey.
“In August 2014, the FBI ini-
tiated an assessment of Ahmad
Rahami based upon comments
made by his father after a do-
mestic dispute that were subse-
quently reported to authorities,”
the bureau said in a statement.
“The FBI conducted internal
database reviews, interagency
checks and multiple interviews,
none of which revealed ties to
terrorism.”
FBI after the younger Rahami
was charged in 2014 with stab-
bing his brother, according to
the officials, who were not au-
thorized to discuss the investiga-
tion and spoke to The Associat-
ed Press on condition of ano-
nymity. Rahami was not prose-
cuted in the stabbing; a grand
jury declined to indict him.
Rahami’s father told report-
ers Tuesday outside the family’s two months, and they say, ‘He’s
fried-chicken restaurant in Eliz- OK, he’s clear, he’s not terrorist.’
abeth, New Jersey, that he called Now they say he’s a terrorist,” the
the FBI at the time because Ra- father said. Asked whether he
hami “was doing real bad,” hav- thought his son was a terrorist,
ing stabbed the brother and hit
his mother.
‘But they checked, almost
Research finds people waste
their money on premium gas
Racial issues involving Somalis
heightened after mall attack
By Kyle Potter
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS
day after a young Somali-
American man stabbed 10
people at a central Minnesota
mall, pickup trucks were spot-
ted driving through predomi-
nantly Somali neighborhoods,
honking and waving Confed-
erate flags — highlighting the
precarious bond between the
thousands of Somalis who live
in St. Cloud and other city resi-
dents.
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ular.
smaller engines, and those may
require premium gas, Nielsen
said.
By Tom Krisher
AP Auto Writer
DETROIT — There is no
sense paying a premium for pre-
mium gasoline if your car is de-
signed to run on regular, accord-
ing to research by the automo-
bile club AAA.
Some drivers occasionally
like to treat their cars to higher-
octane fuel in the belief it boosts
performance. But premium
blends can cost around 50 cents
a gallon more than regular.
AAA says it’s just money out
the tailpipe — lots of it. In a na-
tional survey on gasoline use,
AAA said 16.5 million U.S. driv-
ers spent $2.1 billion they didn’t
need to in the past year on pre-
mium gasoline.
Many think premium means
quality. But AAA researchers
found that while it has more oc-
tane, it didn’t increase horse-
power or fuel economy, decrease
emissions or clean engines any
better than regular gas in cars
that are designed by the manu-
facturer to run on 87-octane reg-
“Drivers see the ‘premium’
name at the pump and may as-
sume the fuel is better for their
vehicle,” said John Nielsen,
AAAs managing director of au-
tomotive engineering.
However, if your owner’s
manual specifically says to run
your car on 93 octane premium
or 89 octane mid-grade gas, you
should do it to make it perform
optimally, according to the re-
searchers. More luxury and per-
formance brands are using tur-
bocharging or supercharging to
get better performance out of
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AAA researchers joined with
the Automobile Club of South-
ern California to test V8, V6 and
four-cylinder engines, coming
up with the same results each
time, Nielsen said.
Seventy percent of U.S. driv-
ers own vehicles that require
regular gas, while 16 percent are
required to use premium fuel.
The rest, about 14 percent, must
use at least mid-grade gas or
have an alternative fuel such as
electricity, AAA says.
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Saturday’s attack at Cross-
roads Center Mall is testing
city and community leaders’
efforts to improve long-
standing racial tensions,
which flared up a few years ago
when Somali-American high
school students said they were
being harassed and being
called terrorists.
It’s also spawning backlash
against Somalis and other
Muslims elsewhere in in the
state, including south of the
Twin Cities, where the owner
of a restaurant and ice cream
parlor changed his sign out
front after Saturday’s attack to
read “Muslims Get Out,” say-
ing he won’t be “peer pres-
sured by the politically correct
crowd.”
Somalis in St. Cloud are
trying to square the bright,
family-minded Dahir Adan,
who went to the mall to buy
the new iPhone, with the emo-
tionless man who was killed by
an off-duty officer and is the
subject of a terrorism investi-
gation. Investigators are por-
Leila Navidi/Star Tribune/AP
Abdulwahid Osman, the lawyer for the family of Dahir Ah-
med Adan, speaks during a news conference at St. Cloud
City Hall in St. Cloud, Minn., on Monday.
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ing through witness and vic-
tim accounts, video footage
and the 20-year-old’s electron-
ic devices to piece together
what sparked the attack.
An Islamic State-run news
agency claimed Adan was a
“soldier of the Islamic State.”
St. Cloud’s police chief has said
it seems Adan acted alone. On
Tuesday, the FBI’s Joint Ter-
rorism Task Force assumed
the lead on the investigation.
FBI spokesman Kyle Loven
said he could not discuss any
investigative details, but that
authorities are following up on
all leads.
“Motivation is a big part of
this investigation,” Loven said.
As many as 10,000 Somalis
have settled in three counties
that compose St. Cloud, a city
with about 65,000 people, ac-
cording to estimates from the
state demographer. Smaller
Somali populations have set-
tled in rural pockets of Minne-
sota, while Minneapolis has
the state’s largest Somali pop-
ulation; conflict between those
residents and the state’s ma-
jority population seem to oc-
cur less frequently than in
Minnesota’s smaller cities.
And aside from the report-
ed Confederate flag situation,
St. Cloud has had lasting is-
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