NEW YORK -- Federal charges have been filed against Ahmad Khan Rahami, the Elizabeth man suspected of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey.

Rahami, 28, is charged with using weapons of mass destruction, bombing, destruction of property, and use of a destructive device in Seaside Park, Elizabeth and New York, according to complaints filed in the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York.

According to the complaints, a family member of Rahami had a cell phone video of him igniting an explosive in the immediate vicinity of his Elizabeth home. The video was taken two days before the Chelsea bombing, according to authorities.

"The video depicts Rahami in a backyard ... the lighting of the fuse, a loud noise and flames, followed by billowing smoke and laughter," the complaints state.

Rahami bought several bomb components on eBay between June 20, 2016 and Aug. 10, 2016 and had the items shipped to a business located in Perth Amboy, according to the complaints.

Authorities recovered 12 fingerprints from the 27th Street bomb in New York, including on the pressure cooker, duct tape and trigger cell phone.

In the federal complaint, FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force Special Agent Peter Frederick Licata detailed a trove of evidence implicating Rahami in the three bombings and revealed the accused bomber was arrested with a journal that praised Osama bin Laden. The document also described a bomb that could have likely caused serious injuries in New York City.

"Inshallah [God willing] the sounds of the bombs will be heard in the streets. Gun shots to your police. Death To Your OPPRESSION," was among some of passages written in a journal recovered by the FBI after Rahami was shot by Linden police on Monday, the complaint says.

The handwritten journal, which was damaged in the gunfire, also includes "laudatory references" to bin Laden, the American-born former Al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki and Nidal Hasan, who shot and killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, according to the complaint.

"I pray to the beautiful wise ALLAH. To not take JIHAD away from. I beg [unintelligible] for shahadat [martyrdom]," the journal stated.

The federal document also noted investigators matched Rahami's fingerprints on a backpack left with explosives near the Elizabeth NJ Transit station and the unexploded pressure cooker bomb left in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Surveillance video showed a man who the agent said appeared to be Rahami near the scene of the Chelsea blast.

Cell phones too played a role in helping the FBI build a case against Rahami. According to the complaint, phones designed to function as timers on bombs in Seaside Park and Chelsea were shipped to and believe to be purchased at the same Perth Amboy store, which was located approximately 500 meters from an address Rahami listed as his residence on a 2012 passport application.

A pressure cooker bomb left on West 23rd street, which injured 31 people, caused "caused significant injuries and multiple-million dollars of property damage across a 650-foot crime scene," Licata's complaint said. The explosive pushed a more than 100-pound dumpster more than 120 feet.

"The blast shattered windows as far as approximately 400 feet from the detonation site and, vertically, more than three stories high," the complaint said.

Though none of the injuries were considered life-threatening, the complaint pointed to the potential for a far more severe impact.

"In order to increase fragmentation, and thus likely to increase the lethality of the device, the bomb was packed with ball bearings and steel nuts, hundreds of which were recovered from the blast site," according to the document.

Rahami, a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan who was living in Elizabeth, was captured in Linden after a shoot-out with police. He has been charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer in Union County.

Rahami's father, Mohammad Rahami, told reporters outside his fried chicken restaurant this morning that he called the FBI about his son.

"I called them two years ago," he said, while pointing at authorities, as FBI agents continued to investigate his business and home. "He stabbed my son. He hit my wife and I put him in jail two years ago."

A federal law enforcement official confirmed to NJ Advance Media that Mohammad Rahami called the FBI and claimed his son was a terrorist two years ago after that incident, initiating a review by federal agents.

"He used the T word," the official said. "It was something to the effect of, 'My son is acting like a terrorist.' He didn't say he was looking up information on internet or building bombs, he just used the T word."

The official said the FBI then began database checks on Rahami and checked with law enforcement, but found "no derogatory information whatsoever." When agents then went back to Mohammad Rahami, he recanted what he had said and the investigation was closed.

Ahmad Khan Rahami was not interviewed by agents, the official said.

"We get leads like this all the time and 99.9 percent of them go nowhere," the official said.

Another official said Ahmad Khan Rahami had a notebook with jihadist writings on him when he was arrested after the shout-out in Linden.

The mother of Ahmad Khan Rahami's daughter yesterday filed for full custody of the girl.

"(Rahami) has been charged with police attempted murder, and is currently under protective services after possible terrorist related activity in NYC 9/17/16," the mother stated in her handwritten message on the application.

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