Ahmad Khan Rahimi
Ahmad Khan Rahimi (b. 1988) is an Afghan-born U.S. citizen who detonated two pipe bombs in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on September 17, 2016, injuring 30 people. He placed a third bomb in New Jersey along the route of the Seaside Semper Five Marine Corps Charity 5K race. Police also found six additional improvised explosive devices in a backpack, one of which detonated as a robot attempted to disarm it. Rahimi was located by police and shot several times before being subdued. Rahimi had been radicalized by ISIS and committed the attacks in support of the group. He also reportedly attempted to radicalize other inmates while in jail awaiting sentencing. Rahimi was sentenced to life in prison in 2018.
Other terms tagged with Islamist
Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Al Sahab Media
Al Sahab Media is the official Arabic-language media wing of Al Qaeda's central leadership. The channel mainly releases publications, sermons and lessons from Al Qaeda leadership, and sometimes includes footage from Al Qaeda operations.