[ April 24, 2024 ]
A New Jersey Muslim was convicted Monday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets, including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated in a bustling neighborhood on a weekend night last summer.
Ahmad Rahimi said he was “a soldier in a holy war against Americans,” and New York and New Jersey were his battleground.
He is eligible for the mandatory minimum of life in prison. May he rot in hell.
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He has two more bombing trials to go through for his New Jersey bombings.
New Jersey man convicted in New York City bombings that injured 30
Fox News, October 14, 2017:A New Jersey man was convicted Monday of planting two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets, including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated in a bustling neighborhood on a weekend night last summer.
The verdict came after a two-week trial of Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 29, an Afghanistan-born man living in Elizabeth just outside New York. The charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction and bombing a public place, carry a maximum punishment of life in prison.
Prosecutors said Rahimi considered himself “a soldier in a holy war against Americans” and was inspired by the Islamic State terror group and Al Qaeda to carry out the late summer attacks in New York and New Jersey.
“Rahimi’s crimes of hate have been met with swift and resolute justice,” Acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim said in a statement. “Just over a year after his attacks, and following a fair and open trial, Rahimi now stands convicted of his crimes of terror by a unanimous jury of New Yorkers.”
Ahmad Khan Rahimi, an Afghan-born U.S. citizen convicted of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey, appears in Union County Superior Court for a hearing in Elizabeth, New Jersey. (REUTERS)
In his closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emil Bove described an unusually large amount of evidence that pointed to Rahimi, including his fingerprints and DNA that were found on bombs in the Sept. 17 attack.
Dozens of videos tracked his movements as he dragged the bombs in suitcases through Manhattan streets, and they also captured the explosion at 23rd Street in the Chelsea neighborhood that injured 30 people. The second bomb planted on city streets didn’t detonate.
Ahmad Khan Rahimi, the man convicted of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York in September 2016. (AP Photo)
As a bomb squad investigator testified, prosecutors showed jurors a mangled, waist-high trash bin that was sent flying 120 feet across a busy street by the bomb. Federal prosecutors called it a miracle that nobody was killed by the explosive, which scattered ball bearings meant to serve as shrapnel.
If that wasn’t enough, Bove said, jurors could look at a small notebook that was on Rahimi when he was arrested two days after the attack following a shootout with police in New Jersey. The prosecutor said Rahimi’s written words provided a confession as he took responsibility for the bombings in a “claim of credit” for attacks that left him feeling proud.
The 29-year-old still faces charges in New Jersey related to the shootout. He has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder of police officers.
Assistant public defender Sabrina Shroff did not deny evidence linking Rahimi to the 23rd Street bomb, but asked jurors to question whether Rahimi really intended for the 27th Street bomb to go off. She urged the jury to acquit Rahimi of three charges that could result in a mandatory life prison sentence.
And she expressed compassion for those injured by the blast, some of whom testified during the trial.
“This is a difficult case for all of us because we are all New Yorkers,” Shroff said.
Prosecutors said Rahimi left his home before sunrise to plant a pipe bomb along the route of a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Heights, New Jersey. No one was injured in that explosion because the race had been delayed.
Hours later, Rahimi went into Manhattan, where he was seen walking from Penn Station to the street locations where two bombs were placed.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew DeFilippis said in closing arguments that Rahimi had carried out a “cold and calculating” attack with a variety of explosive devices that included a backpack filled with seven bombs, some small enough to use like hand grenades.
The prosecutor said Rahimi could be convicted even if some bombs didn’t explode because the government only needed to prove that he took “substantial steps” to set off explosives.
Alluding to the numerous street videos jurors watched of Rahimi walking through Manhattan, DeFillipis reminded jurors that they had seen him take “step after step after step,” including after the 23rd Street bomb exploded.
He said Rahimi was seen “walking away so he wouldn’t get hurt while others bled.”
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19 Comments
6 years ago
Thanks for posting this follow up to his arrest and prosecution. Where else can I read articles like this except at this website? (It’s a rhetorical question. The answer is: nowhere else.)
6 years ago
Reply to
Jeff Ludwig
Did you know Left/Liberal George Cloony the Loony, Fled Italy to UK due to Islamic “refugees” he wanted Europeans to take in, started settling around his Estate !
And now Cloony the Anti-Trump Pro-muslim immigration found a good way to Avoid getting killed by jihadis.
The coward was not feeling safe in Britainistan so flees to ………? Guess where ? To the “Racist” Trump’s America ! What should be done to such scumbags ?
One option is given at end of the article here http://bit.ly/2u4CPfj
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
Thanks for the reply. It’s interesting to know about celebrity hypocrites. There are many of them.
6 years ago
I wonder if this muslum would’ve been convicted of anything if he had been tried in Dearbornistan, Michigan? Allah it would take is ONE f’ing muslum on the jury and he would’ve had a hung jury.
6 years ago
Reply to
Robert Batchelor
In Pennsylvania a muslum judge dismissed all charges against a fellow muslum for tackling an atheist to the ground and choking him. It’s called the Zombie Muhammad incident and there were eyewitnesses to the crime (i.e. the people who dragged the muslum ape off of the victim).
6 years ago
Public execution when?
Seriously, it’s the only thing that will send out a strong enough message to these religious extremists. Show them that they are not safe from being executed, and maybe they’ll consider changing their tune.
6 years ago
Deport him, with instructions to all law enforcement agencies that if he is ever seen in a civilized country, he is to be shot on sight.
D
6 years ago
The Jury System still seems to be working.
6 years ago
He is allowed to come into this country to start a holy war with us that gives him freedom of thought ??? This man is an enemy from the minute he laid foot on our shores! One look at this guy and I knew he was trouble… Stand him up against a wall backdrop and do a WWII on him and watch him fall like a rock!! But that would be too good for this low life scum of the earth. He needs to die a very slow and painful death and it needs to be done in a public arena to where he can be humiliated in front of everyone…
6 years ago
Reply to
spfg
Many citizens posting think it’s wonderful what happened to him. They talk like he got what he deserved. Proof they’ve been indoctrinated into the mindset that we are not a constitutional republic, but a democracy, That everyone, (even terrorists) are equal, and our laws are pliable. Whose culture is multiculturalism. We are no longer a country or faith or ideology worth dying or killing for. We allow a corrupt Washington to bring our enemies into our neighborhoods to kill us, because belief in, and desire for that which is holy, sacred and decent has been replaced. We have become too weak, debased and splintered to prevent it.
Most football fans aren’t even willing to not attend or view an NFL game of vile knee taking traitors.
We are no longer the kind of Americans who deserve the uncommon freedoms we’ve already lost or that we are so about to lose. Better men and women fought, suffered and died to create what we give away.
6 years ago
LOL!
May he get bacon the rest of his life.
6 years ago
Ahmad Rahimi said he was “a soldier in a holy war against Americans. ” It would have given me more a sense of justice if the judge had told Rahimi “You are evil. Allah is evil. Islam is evil. To the slammer until you, and no halal prison food for you, either. It will be sausage and gravy for breakfast, and pork chops for dinner, for the rest of your miserable life.”
6 years ago
Why are these scum being tolerated in americastan?
6 years ago
Shame on America. Giving foreign born terrorists all the comforts of a civilian trial. Then allow them to serve a civilian sentence in a civilian cush U.S. prison, where they get special treatment with Islamic Halal foods, islamic terrorist faith instruction and freedom to convert American criminals into the savage religion of Islam. America, constitutional republic no longer exists. It is a shrinking speck in the rearview mirror of history.
6 years ago
Why are these muzrat scumbags so very ugly and sinister looking?!?!?!?! Must de the religion of peace shining through.
6 years ago
He should spend it in solitary confinement so he cannot infect any other minds
6 years ago
This was an excellent case for the application of the death penalty. Put the inevitable appeals on the rocket docket.
