THEY'RE GETTING THERE – AT 10:16 A.M. ET: Pretty much as many expected, there appears to be an international connection to the terror events of recent days. From Fox:
Authorities released the name and photo of an "armed and dangerous" Afghan-born man wanted in connection with bombings in New York City and New Jersey, as raids and detentions in the metropolitan area pointed toward a terror cell being behind the series of weekend attacks.
Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, is being sought for questioning regarding the Saturday night blast in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, an explosion in Seaside Park on Saturday morning and a foiled bomb attack Sunday night near a train station in Elizabeth, NJ.
Rahami's last known address was in Elizabeth, and the FBI had launched a raid at the apartment, located above a fried chicken restaurant, on Monday morning. Elizabeth is the city where investigators discovered five suspicious devices -- one of which exploded while a bomb squad robot tried to disarm it -- near a train station on Sunday night.
"Today I believe we're going to find out that [the bombing] was influenced by foreign sources," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday on"Fox & Friends."
COMMENT: This is going well beyond a local story. And we have to ask how many terrorists or potential terrorists are out there.
President Obama speaks to the UN tomorrow in New York. I wonder if he'll mention this little terrorism issue, or leave it to the little people.
September 19, 2016 |