How they identified him:
Federal agents identified Rahami using security video from the Manhattan location where one bomb exploded and nearby, where an unexploded device was discovered, authorities said.
They also recovered at least one fingerprint from the unexploded bomb that they linked to Rahami, a U.S. law enforcement official said.
His parents run the "First American Fried Chicken Restaurant" in Elizabeth, New Jersey."
Authorities say the explosive used was
"tannerite." The devices were crude and unsophisticated, suggesting an amateur:
Investigators do not believe that the bomber or bombers received extensive training to make the relatively crude devices for several reasons. For one thing, the U.S. law enforcement official said, fewer than half of the devices exploded or partially exploded.
Placing it in a dumpster also signals someone inexperienced:
The placement likely saved lives and reduced the severity and number of those injured in the blast. Someone trained in how to place explosives — and not just learning how to craft them from the Internet — would not likely have chosen such a location, according Patrick Skinner, a former CIA case officer and a director of the Soufan Group, a New York-based security firm. Another bomb was discovered nearby before it could explode.
Don't tell that to the so-called terror expert who served as a pundit on CNN today. As I was driving home today around 5:15, I had CNN on the radio. The pundit, portrayed as a terror expert, said exactly the opposite: He said it was unlikely someone could learn to make this bomb on the internet and that the individual didn't just wake up one morning and decide to make a bomb, the device was too sophisticated and the explosive too rare.
Cable news has become such a waste of time. And the number of commercials on CNN on Sirius is ridiculous.
