<p>The New York area was rocked with explosions this Saturday, with one bomb detonating in Manhattan and another, just 11 hours earlier, in a Jersey shore neighborhood. Surveillance videos led the FBI to zero in on 28-year-old New Jersey resident Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was apprehended this morning after a shootout in Linden, NJ. ;</p>
<p>The Afghanistan-born suspect shot one officer in the vest and another in the hand before authorities were able to shoot him in the shoulder. He was bandaged and taken to a hospital via ambulance. ;</p>
<p>The FBI believes Saturday&rsquo;s explosions in New York and New Jersey are connected, and Rahami is wanted for questioning in connection with both events.</p>
<p>The shrapnel-filled bomb that detonated in Manhattan&rsquo;s Chelsea neighborhood on Saturday injured 29 passersby, but caused no fatalities. ;The jury-rigged device appears to be made from pressure cooker parts and Christmas lights. It was activated using the timing device from a flip phone. ;</p>
<p>Police discovered a second bomb nearby that never detonated. ;</p>
<p>Just 80 miles away and less than 24 hours earlier, a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, NJ as participants lined up to begin a Marine Corps charity run. ;Five more explosive devices were located late Sunday at a train station in Elizabeth, NJ. One exploded as police used a robot to investigate, but there were no injuries.  ;</p>
<p>&ldquo;None of the devices are very sophisticated, but they show enough know-how to be lethal, reports CNN.</p>
<p>No international group has claimed responsibility for the bombings, but NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo considers detonating a bomb anywhere in New York City as &ldquo;an act of terrorism.&rdquo; ;Cuomo said this morning that he &ldquo;wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if it [the investigation] zeroes in on a particular individual, today even&rdquo; and that he &ldquo;wouldn&rsquo;t be surprised if we found a foreign connection to the act.&rdquo;</p>
<p>NY Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was reluctant to classify the crime as terrorism. &ldquo;It could have been something personally motivated. We don&rsquo;t know yet.&rdquo;</p>
<p>&ldquo;Almost anybody could have fabricated these bombs and used cellphones as timed detonators,&rdquo; said a US official. &ldquo;There are instructions all over the Internet, and the crudity, positioning, and relative ineffectiveness of these does not suggest that a more sophisticated group played any role.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p>UN world leaders are scheduled to meet in Manhattan for six days starting tomorrow, and Mayor Blasio has promised that the security presence will be &ldquo;bigger than ever.&rdquo; ;</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:</strong>  ;Together with 8 eight people stabbed to death in a mall in Minnesota (responsibility claimed by ISIS), it is very clear this is a coordinated attack.  ;Radical Islam is showing us they can reach us throughout America in a coordinated strike.</p>