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Transcripts For CNNW Anderson Cooper 360 20160921

Thanks for joining us for this hour of 360. The sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gunshots to your police, death to your oppression. This was among the writings found in the new york and new jersey bomb suspects journal, according to a criminal complaint. Four federal charges have now been filed against him. Were also learning some disturbing new information tonight about the suspects somewhat violent past and his family members. Well have more on that in a moment. First, Deborah Feyerick has the latest on the investigation. Deborah . Reporter well, anderson, the terror suspect has now been charged with four counts. They include use of a weapon of mass destruction, bombing a public place, also destruction of public property, and use of explosives in commission of a criminal act. Now, rahami took cell phone video just two days before he launched this attack on new york city and new jersey. He actually lit some bomb material in or around his back yard. That was filmed on a relatives cell phone. That now in the possession of the fbi. And we can tell you, anderson, that bomb that was detonated here on west 23rd street, it was so powerful that it propelled a 100pound dumpster clear across the street, 120 feet to where im standing, scattering debris basically in all directions. Two years before allegedly detonating a bomb in manhattan, Ahmad Khan Rahami came to the attention of the fbi in new jersey. In 2014 agents interviewed rahamis father, mohamed, following a domestic dispute in which he allegedly called his son a terrorist. Why did you call the fbi two years ago because he doing bad. What did he do . He stab my son. He hit my wife. And i put him in jail two years ago. Reporter at the time, rahami had just returned from a yearlong trip to afghanistan from pakistan. Officials tell cnn that fbi agents did not interview rahami. Yet after conducting internal database reviews, interagency checks and multiple reviews the fbi ultimately concluded it was a family dispute. We had a report of a domestic incident some time ago. That was the allegations were recanted. And i dont have any other information. Well keep digging. Reporter however, because of his repeated trips to areas associated with terrorists, when rahami returned to the u. S. In 2014, customs and Border Patrol agents pulled him aside for extra screening. A Law Enforcement official telling cnn that information was sent to the fbi before the family dispute. While the fbi so far does not believe rahami was part of a terror cell in the new York New Jersey area, investigators are digging on rahamis connections in the u. S. And overseas to determine if he had any help. Moving forward, we have to identify everybody involved and see, see what their backgrounds are, see where theyve been, see what theyve been up to. Rahami allegedly built at least ten bombs, eight pipe bombs and two Pressure Cooker bombs. A federal Law Enforcement source tells cnn rahami used a highly volatile chemical explosive, easy to make at home. The material is so powerful, it could create an even bigger blast than the one caused by the boston bombers. Tonight, investigators are learning more about what could have inspired rahami. After a shootout with Police Investigators discovered he had a notebook on him with a bullet hole. According to Law Enforcement official, it referenced the Boston Marathon bombers and americanborn al qaeda cleric, Anwar Al Awlaki, killed in yemen by a u. S. Drone strike. And deborah, he also got some components for the bomb or bombs on ebay. Is that right . Thats whats so surprising. Investigators really put this case together very, very quickly. And apparently, they allege that the components were bought on ebay. They include citric acid, detonation systems, as well as ball bearings. All of these are known bomb components. And you know, this suspect really wanted to die a martyr. And he writes that in his journal. And it was a multipronged attack. He had two Pressure Cooker bombs. But he also planned to engage police in a shootout if it came down to that. So he was ready, he was prepared, and it looks like he built these devices over the summer, anderson. All right, Deborah Feyerick, thanks. As details emerge about the suspects family life, its a story of a lot of trauma and tum you will wous tumultuous, sometimes violent scenes. Friends of Ahmad Khan Rahami talk of a feud between him and his father who brought his family here to seek asylum but also tried to hold on to a strict Family Tradition of their home country, afghanistan. For him, it was his father. And it was just, it was just tension. It was his part, too. He should have listened more to his father. Maybe, you know, stayed in school. This longtime friend of the accused bomber says in his teens, rahami was outgoing, funny, and looking the forward to a future in Law Enforcement, but in high school, he got his girlfriend pregnant and ahmad struggled to make Child Support payments. There was more stress, and this family friend says it led to one of the most traumatic events in ahmad rahamis life, the time his father literally abandoned him in pakistan. It was your impression that he thought his father, i assume, wanted him to stay in pakistan. Wanted to abandon him in pakistan, so he would not come back to the u. S. He told me himself that he was basically left there. And that he had to find his own way back. Which im sure traumatized him for life. That, im sure, scarred him. The friend, who doesnt want to be identified, says it was a shock when ahmad actually came back. He was left and he had they took away his way of coming back, and that was about it. And he had to go and it hurt him a lot. And that night, like, when he told me, he he said it in a very devastated way. During multiple trips back and forth to afghanistan and pakistan, ahmad and his brother married pakistani cousins. He asked a congressman to step in when his wife had visa issues. She needed a new passport. Then after they got a new passport, they found out that she was 35 weeks pregnant and they would not give her the entry visa and said they would give her the visa once she had the baby. Reporter after she was allowed into the u. S. , rahami and his wife tried to get away from the troubled family life, moving into this apartment, but a friend says they couldnt afford it, were evicted, and ended up back in the family apartment above the chicken shop. It was not good, what happened. That was just a violent night. There was blood. Reporter Court Documents show a family in turmoil, lawsuits over big debts incurred by the father, and allegation of child abuse by the mother. The tight quarters led to family fights. In 2014 the violence escalated. Ahmad pulled a knife, and according to this arrest warrant attacked his brother, stabbing him in his left leg. Today rahamis father briefly told reporters he is the one who called police. It was a very bad situation for ahmad. Because he was trying to live with his parents and his wife and kids, but just i guess drama just unfolded that night, between them. Drew joins me now. That arrest in 2014 and the claims by the father that he told the fbi his son was a terrorist or had radical leanings, which i guess the fbi says was later retracted, do we know how much of an investigation there actually was on this guy . He spent three months in jail. So there was an investigation ensuing, along police lines, to see if this case was going to move forward in a Domestic Violence case. The family dropped the charges, the grand jury refused to indict. After three months, he was basically let go. It was during that time that the father said, my sons a terrorist. The fbi apparently came in and believed this was all the result of a dysfunctional family. Were just going to let it go. There doesnt seem to be any terrorism here. The bombers brother, or the alleged bombers brother, who also traveled to pakistan with him and i guess married a cousin of his wife, apparently was also posting radical islamic material on facebook, is that true . Yeah, on his facebook. Thes this is mohammad, the brother who did go to pakistan. He has a pakistani wife as well. Many benign posts on his facebook but among them were links to Anwar Al Awlakis preachings and also to a link that is a conspiracy video about 9 11 being an actual hoax. So this brother as well as we believe now ahmed rahami both shared this kind of literature. And do we know where the brother is now . The brother is here. The brothers in the United States. Were not sure if hes cooperating or not. Drews going to stay with us. I want to bring in cnn terrorism analyst paul cruickshank, also cnn contributor and daily beast editor Michael Weiss and cnn intelligence and security analyst former cia officer robert baer. Phil, the more we learn about these charges well, actually, maykel, what stands out to you about this . It sounds in many ways like so many of these other cases that weve heard of somebody who actually grew up here, i guess he was here from the time he was 6 or 7 years old. Weve seen this before. And its almost out of central casting, right . He was charming, he was funny, he did well in school. And then something changes. You know, this descent into dysfunctionalty and this descent into financial difficulties, Violent Crime, not islamist related or terrorism related. But whatever what was the radicalizing agent here. You know, the analog that strikes me is, umar farooq abdulmutall abdulmutallab, started posting very provocative things about 9 11, al awlaki videos, may have even attended sermons by Anwar Al Awlaki that were beamed into the east london mosque. His father was a nigerian minister, dropped a dime on the kid and said, i think my son is becoming a terrorist, very much like this incident here. That guy, we now know, tried to blow up an airliner above the skies of detroit in christmas of 2009. Its often kind of a misconception that nobody sees this process unfolding in realtime. Now, the father retracted or recanted his statement, but he did say at one point that my son traveled to the afpak region and was congregating with some, quote, bad people. Well, im keen as to hear about that. I mean, this is sort of similar, also, to tamerlan tsarnaev, who spent months in dagestan. And the is up supposition is who was he hanging out with in dagestan . This is a hornets nest of the Islamist Insurgency thats been fighting russia for years. Bob, the more we learned from these federal charges, the fact that theres apparently Video Evidence of explosives, apparently being tested, what does it tell you about the suspects . One of the things you have long talked about is, with these kind of bombs, you do have to test them out, or you have to have some sort of training or instruction . Anderson, you do. I mean, ive been trained in these things by atf, by london police, they showed me how to do it, but i always had somebody around me. And this is not the kind of thing that you do on your own, especially with the peroxide, distilling it, the rest of it, something you need to practice and clearly he was doing it. I dont think hes much of a chemist, so i think he probably learned this abroad. You know, if he went to the taliban or another group in quetta and picked this up and carried it back and knew the ingredients and the rest of it, its undoubtedly what happened. Hes not the type of person to be experimenting with this stuff, learning on his own. Same way with the boston bombers. They had some sort of guidance, maybe in dagestan, when it first started, when they were in the caucasus. So no, i think this guy was prepared and radicalized and he is from central casting. You have a patriarchal family that falls apart, a father that barely speaks english. He calls him a terrorist. The word in pashtu is someone who scares the family. So i can see why the fbi didnt pursue this. It was just a family dispute. And he was you know, he was going to end up where he did. I think the lucky thing is, he decided not to become martyr and take this bomb into a nightclub or a restaurant and really would have killed a lot of people. Paul, you look at his and we talked about this last night. His tradecraft. His you know, besides the bomb making itself, everything else. I mean, he was caught on multiple surveillance cameras. You know, he sort of has random placement of the device. Hes not the most highly trained if there was some sort of training, hes not the most highly trained you know, hes no jason bourne. Hes succeeded in making powerful devices and exploding them, at least one of them, on the streets of manhattan. So from that degree, he was successful. If he did get training, they tend not to train people in how to get away. What theyre interested in is getting the guy to the position where he can actually launch a bomb attack. He got to that position without any of the u. S. Intelligence or Law Enforcement agencies getting on to him, so from his point of view, you know, this was partially successful. Do you agree that he i mean, in the journal i talked about wanting to be a martyr. You know, he was found asleep, you know, by a bar in lyndon, new jersey. If he wanted to die in some way, thats i mean, he may just have been weary and needed to sort of catch up with some rest before going into a future phase of this operation. He made very clear in his notebook that he was yearning for martyrdom, for paradise, that the thing he feared the most was that he would be discovered before he was able to perhaps become a suicide bomber or launch some kind of suicidal gun attack. Fortunately, there was this tipoff, after a resident there actually saw his picture on cnn. The guy that has a shop across the away, outside his bar. And if that hadnt happened when it happened, there could have been further bombings. Thank you. Drew griffin, paul cruickshank, Michael Weiss. Coming up, a suspect is a naturalized u. S. Citizen, not the First Citizen to be accused of an attack on his fellow americans in the recent past. Well take a look at what we have seen up to date. And later, more breaking news. Multiple forces say george h. W. Bush says he is voting for Hillary Clinton. Details on that, ahead. This is cnn breaking news. Hello, everyone. Im Rosemary Church at cnn center with this breaking news out of charlotte, North Carolina. That is where angry protesters are demanding answers after police shot and killed a man. About 12 officers have been injured. Police say they were trying to serve a warrant tuesday when they killed Keith Lamont Scott in the parking lot of an apartment complex. They say scott was armed but he was not the man they were looking for. Police say a gun scott was holding was found at the scene. That officer is now on paid leave. Police have been trying to Disperse Protesters for several hours now. The citys mayor has called for calm and an investigation into what happened. And we will of course continue to follow this breaking news story and bring you more as we get it. Im Rosemary Church. 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Reporter june 2016, orlandos pulse nightclub under attack. 49 people are killed. But the shooter isnt a foreigner connected to al qaeda or isis. Hes an american citizen. I just remember, like, you can smell, like, the blood. There was so much blood. You could just smell it. Reporter the nightclub shooters parents moved to the u. S. From afghanistan. He was born in new york. As a child he went to slumber parties and basketball games. He was 29, married, and living in ft. Pierce at the time of the attack. After 9 11 u. S. Intelligence mainly focused on foreignborn threats, but it turns out in the last 15 years every deadly terrorist attack in this country was carried out by an american citizen or a legal permanent resident. The terrorist was either a lone wolf or worked in pairs, but never part of a larger cell. December 2015,

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