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New York (CNN)[Breaking news update at 9:41 a.m. ET]

Ahmad Khan Rahami is now also wanted for questioning in connection with the explosion Saturday in Seaside Park, New Jersey, the FBI said Monday.
    New York police announced earlier they are looking for Rahami for questioning in connection with the Saturday bombing in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, which injured 29 people.
    [Previous story, published at 9:04 a.m. ET]
    Bombings in New York and New Jersey over the weekend -- as well as the discovery of several unexploded devices -- have led authorities to believe there may be a terror cell at work in those two states, law enforcement officials told CNN Monday.
    And a manhunt is under way for 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami after New York police identified him as wanted in connection with the bombing Saturday night in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, which wounded 29 people.
     
    And on Sunday night, a backpack with multiple bombs inside was found in Elizabeth, New Jersey. As authorities tried to investigate, one of those bombs exploded.
    The series of attacks come as New York hosts world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly this week.
    Here are the latest developments:
    -- Officials want to question Ahmad Khan Rahami because they believe he is the man seen in surveillance videos rolling a duffel bag near the scene of the bombing in Chelsea, according to multiple officials.
    -- The FBI described Rahami as a naturalized U.S. citizen of Afghan descent with a last known address in Elizabeth, New Jersey -- the same city where an explosives-laden backback was found Sunday night.
    Rahami is about 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds. Rahami has brown hair, brown eyes and brown facial hair.
    -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the bombs found over the weekend have similarities, suggesting "there might have been a common linkage." He said the investigation is ongoing, and he "wouldn't be surprised if it zeroes in on a particular individual, today even," and he "wouldn't be surprised if we found a foreign connection to the act."
    -- A federal law enforcement official said BBs and ball bearings were among the pieces of metal that appeared to be packed into two pressure cooker bombs in New York. One of those devices exploded on 23rd Street, but the fact that it was partly under a metal trash container may have diminished the force of the blast.
    -- Surveillance videos showed the same man near the site of the explosion in Chelsea and where a pressure-cooker device was found four blocks away, several local and federal law enforcement sources told CNN.
    -- On Sunday night, the FBI and New York police stopped a vehicle of interest in the investigation, according to a statement from the FBI. No one has been charged with any crime and the investigation is ongoing, the statement said.
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    racer254

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    6 minutes ago, Highmark said:

    Lets open our borders up to people in the ME.  Our vetting process will catch if any are or will become radicalized.  :nuts:

    Here is another, he was a relative of somali refugees

    The man who stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall Saturday before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer was a "soldier of the Islamic state," according to an ISIS-linked news agency.

     

     
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    Highmark

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    1 hour ago, oquossocbob said:

    Would he be considered  ME since he's an Afganie?

    In my book he is.  Geographically it's not considered the ME but politically it is.   Which is more influential?

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    New York (CNN)[Breaking news update at 11:23 a.m. ET]

    Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man suspected in bombings in New York and New Jersey, is now in custody after a shootout with police, sources said.
      The shootout happened Monday in Linden, New Jersey, a local and federal law enforcement official said.
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      2 hours ago, Highmark said:

      In my book he is.  Geographically it's not considered the ME but politically it is.   Which is more influential?

      It's odd that most of these terrorist type come from the same parts of the globe. Why is it we don't have more terrorist from let's say New Zealand?:dunno:

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      57 minutes ago, oquossocbob said:

      It's odd that most of these terrorist type come from the same parts of the globe. Why is it we don't have more terrorist from let's say New Zealand?:dunno:

      Not really.   Center of Islam and Israel.   Been fighting each other for thousands of years.  Its and its radicalism is spreading.  

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      1 minute ago, Highmark said:

      Not really.   Center of Islam and Israel.   Been fighting each other for thousands of years.  Its and its radicalism is spreading.  

      Maybe we should set a jobs & tanf  programs in those troubled regions. These guys then will love us and not try to bomb, stab, shoot us.

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      1 hour ago, oquossocbob said:

      It's odd that most of these terrorist type come from the same parts of the globe. Why is it we don't have more terrorist from let's say New Zealand?:dunno:

      The fact we don't constantly interfere with NZ's government & sovereignty might have something to do with it. 

       

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