A family friend told CNN that the father of the man believed to have committed multiple jihadist bombings in New York and New Jersey last weekend stole his passport and abandoned him in Pakistan after the man, then a teen, had had a child with a Latin American woman.
Ahmed Khan Rahami, friends say, was once a Western-friendly teen at Edison High School in New Jersey, a disposition that infuriated his father. Following the news that Rahami had impregnated his then-girlfriend, Maria Mena, his father Mohammed made him travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan. One night, a family friend identified as Ehsan told CNN, Mohammed Rahami stole Ahmed’s passport and left the country with the rest of the family. – READ MORE
