Chelsea bomber tried to ‘radicalize fellow inmates’ in jail, shared explosives instructions

A terrorist who set off an explosive in Chelsea last year shared bomb-making instructions in jail as part of an attempt “to radicalize fellow inmates,” according to a federal prosecutor.
Ahmad Khan Rahimi also shared books on jihad, lectures by Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki, as well as issues of an online magazine published by Al Qaeda, according to The New York Times.
Rahimi, of Elizabeth, N.J., was convicted of several terror charges in October for planting homemade bombs in various locations in New York and New Jersey.
Thirty people were injured on Sept. 17, 2016, when a pressure cooker bomb filled with ball bearings and steel nuts detonated on 23rd Street, crumpling a dumpster while shrapnel flew through the air and shattered windows as far as 400 feet away.
Allegations of Rahimi’s activity at the Metropolitan Correctional Center came in a letter Friday from the office of acting U.S. Attorney Joon Kim to Judge Richard Berman, who is due to sentence the 29-year-old on Jan. 18.
Rahimi shared some of the extremist material with inmates he met during prayer sessions in jail, Kim wrote.
Among those who saw the texts was Sajmir Alimehmeti, a Bronx man who has been charged with providing material support to the Islamic State.
On Friday, Rahimi also filed a letter to the judge announcing he had started a hunger strike on Dec. 8 on the grounds that his family members were not allowed to visit him. He also claimed he was not allowed to call his lawyer.
The former fried chicken restaurant worker, who prosecutors said was radicalized after a 2014 visit to his native Afghanistan, faces a mandatory life sentence.

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