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Bombing Suspect Traveled Back To Afghanistan, Pakistan In Recent Years
Resume![Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. Rahami was wanted for questioning in the bombings that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of New York and the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park. (Moshe Weiss/AP).](https://wordpress.wbur.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/0920_immigration-1000x765.jpg)
More details are coming out about Ahmad Khan Rahami, who is charged with setting off a bomb in Manhattan and setting bombs in New Jersey.
Officials say Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen, traveled back to his birth country, Afghanistan, in 2011 and 2013. He had financial problems in the United States as well as problems with the law.
Here & Now’s Meghna Chakrabarti talks with NPR's Joe Shapiro about the latest investigation details.
Guest
Joe Shapiro, investigations correspondent for NPR News. He tweets @NPRJoeShapiro.
This segment aired on September 20, 2016.