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Suspect in New York Subway Bombing Is Charged With Terrorism Suspect in New York Subway Bombing Is Charged With Terrorism
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The authorities have filed criminal charges accusing a would-be suicide bomber with detonating a pipe bomb affixed to his torso inside a Manhattan subway corridor as an act of terrorism. The federal authorities filed terrorism charges on Tuesday against a would-be suicide bomber who was accused of detonating a pipe bomb affixed to his torso inside a Manhattan subway corridor.
The charges accuse the bombing suspect, Akayed Ullah, 27, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had lived for several years in Brooklyn, with supporting an act of terrorism, making terrorist threats and criminal possession of a weapon, the police said. The five charges against the bombing suspect, Akayed Ullah, 27, an immigrant from Bangladesh who had lived for several years in Brooklyn, include use of weapons of mass destruction, provision of material support to the Islamic State and bombing a place of public use, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan.
Investigators are continuing to delve into the past of Mr. Ullah, who is believed to have acted alone and chosen the spot in a narrow hallway connecting subway stations beneath Times Square for its Christmas-themed posters. He told investigators that he set off his crude explosive device, fashioned from a length of pipe, in retaliation for United States airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria and elsewhere. The complaint says that Mr. Ullah, who has been held at Bellevue Hospital Center, admitted to investigators that he had built the pipe bomb and carried out the attack.
“I did it for the Islamic State,” he said, according to the complaint.
He said that he had built the pipe bomb at his apartment in Brooklyn about one week before carrying out the attack. He began compiling the materials that he used to construct the bomb about two or three weeks ago, he told investigators.
On Monday morning, the complaint notes, Mr. Ullah posted a statement on his Facebook page stating, “Trump you failed to protect your nation.”
Investigators are continuing to delve into the past of Mr. Ullah, who is believed to have acted alone and chosen the spot in a narrow hallway connecting subway stations beneath Times Square for its Christmas-themed posters.
His device however failed to fully detonate, the police said, and Mr. Ullah himself was the only one seriously injured in a blast that sent smoke billowing through the underground passageways of Midtown and snarled a Monday morning commute.His device however failed to fully detonate, the police said, and Mr. Ullah himself was the only one seriously injured in a blast that sent smoke billowing through the underground passageways of Midtown and snarled a Monday morning commute.
“It didn’t function with the force and power that the recipe intended to,” John J. Miller, the New York Police Department’s commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said in an interview on Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.”“It didn’t function with the force and power that the recipe intended to,” John J. Miller, the New York Police Department’s commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said in an interview on Tuesday on “CBS This Morning.”
For that reason, Mr. Miller said, the events could have, “been far, far worse.”For that reason, Mr. Miller said, the events could have, “been far, far worse.”
The charges against Mr. Ullah were announced on Tuesday by the New York Police Department. The charges were to be announced at a news conference later today by Joon H. Kim, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan; William F. Sweeney, the head of the F.B.I.’s New York office and Mr. Miller.
Mr. Ullah was expected to be charged later on Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan with terrorism crimes, several law enforcement officials said Tuesday morning. Federal and state authorities were expected to announce the charges, contained in a criminal complaint, at a news conference late Tuesday morning, the officials said.