Chicken dive waged own terror
Before Ahmad Rahami became notorious as the suspect in this weekend's bombings in and around New York, his family was known in Elizabeth, New Jersey, for frequent skirmishes with neighbours over its fried chicken restaurant. Rahami, 28, a naturalised US citizen who was born in Afghanistan, had a few other brushes with the law on his own, records show.Described as a "class clown" by a high school classmate, he studied criminal justice before dropping out of a community college.Rahami was not listed on US counterterrorism databases, but his family was well known to Elizabeth mayor Chris Bollwage for the frequent complaints, dating back to at least 2008, about noise at their restaurant."The suspect was not on the radar of local law enforcement, but the fried chicken place that ... the family owned, we had noise complaints," Bollwage told reporters.Rahami was arrested in 2014 on weapons and assault charges for allegedly stabbing someone in a domestic incident, the New York Times reported. ..
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