re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth
from the link:
I read something not too long ago this afternoon that the suspect came here when he was two years old and Bush was president at the time.
According to the NYT:
Mr. Rahami was born on Jan. 23, 1988, in Afghanistan. He was described as a naturalized citizen who had been living with his family in Elizabeth, not far from where he was arrested. Associates said that several years ago Mr. Rahami traveled to his homeland and when he returned, he showed signs of radicalization. The significance of the visit was not immediately clear. It was not known whether he had any links to an overseas terror organization, or whether he had been inspired by such organizations and their propaganda efforts, as others have been.
I’ve yet to see anything on when he was naturalized or when he came to the US. We’ve seen a lot of these cases of “he went there and became radicalized” and it makes me wonder what happens on those trips.