Trump failed to protect his nation, says bomb suspect

Suicide mission: Akayed Ullah A Bangladeshi immigrant arrested over a New York subway bombing has blamed President Donald Trump for the botched suicide mission that he said he carried out for the Islamic State group.

Akayed Ullah posted a statement on his Facebook account on his way to the Monday morning attack stating: “Trump you failed to protect your nation”, the criminal complaint said.

He also told law enforcement officers at the hospital where he was taken with burn injuries to the body and hands: “I did it for the Islamic State”, according to the complaint.

His rush-hour attack fizzled in a long walkway used by commuters moving between trains in the city’s busiest subway station at Times Square.

Three pedestrians complained of harmed hearing and headaches after the bomb went off.

Ullah (27) was expected to appear before a magistrate judge, though it was not immediately clear if he was well enough to go to court.

During a search of his Brooklyn apartment, investigators recovered a passport with the words “O America, die in rage” scrawled in it, the complaint said.

He hoped to “terrorise as many people as possible” with a bomb filled with metal screws that he believed would cause maximum damage, the complaint said.

The complaint charged Ullah with providing material support to a terrorist group, use of a weapon of mass destruction and three bomb-related counts.

According to the complaint, Ullah began researching how to build bomb after he had “viewed pro-Isis materials online, including a video instructing, in substance, that if supporters of Isis were unable to travel overseas to join Isis, they should carry out attacks in their homelands”.

Overseas, Bangladesh counter-terrorism officers were questioning Ullah’s wife and other relatives, officials there said yesterday.

Relatives and police said Ullah last visited Bangladesh in September to see his wife and newborn son before leaving them behind to return the United States.