Who Exactly Is Ahmad Khan Rahami?

Two Americans staged terrorist attacks this weekend, and reporters and law-enforcement officers have since been picking apart their lives, so that the details might be reconstituted as a plausible story. Ahmad Khan Rahami, who has been charged with planting bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey, injuring thirty-one people when one of his devices went off in Chelsea, has some of the history that we have come to look for: a trip to Pakistan, a sudden turn toward religion, an attempt by a family member to report him. Dahir Adan, who stabbed ten people in a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police, is a more puzzling case. No one seems able to explain what led him to this act.

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