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Officials Say They’ve Identified Two Men Who Found Bag with Unexploded Bomb

HeadlineSep 29, 2016

In New York, authorities say they have identified the two men who found a bag containing an unexploded bomb placed on 27th Street in Chelsea earlier this month during the bombings in New York and New Jersey. Authorities say video shows the two men taking the items out of the bag and then walking off with the bag itself. Police described the bag’s contents as a pressure cooker bomb connected to a flip phone, packed with shrapnel and wired to detonate. Authorities say the two men have now been identified as Egyptians who were visiting New York and have since returned to Egypt. Authorities do not think the men have anything to do with the bombings. This comes as the main suspect in the bombings, Ahmad Khan Rahami, has retained the American Civil Liberties Union to represent him, after judges in both New York and New Jersey rejected efforts by public defenders seeking to represent Rahami. The head of the ACLU in New Jersey, Udi Ofer, said the judges’ move “violates the Constitution and needlessly sacrifices civil liberties in the name of national security.”

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