AMERICANS ROCKED BY TERROR FEARS

Nearly a week after the nation commemorated the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, two explosions on Sept. 17, in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood and in Seaside Park, N,J., raised Americans’ anxieties over a new wave of terrorist activity. The man suspected in the bombings, Ahmad Khan Rahami, was captured on Monday after a frantic manhunt and a shootout with police. He was charged with five counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer in the shootout, as well as other weapon charges. No one was killed in the bombings. Though the FBI reported that there is “no indication” of an active terror cell in the New York area, there were signs that Rahimi didn’t act alone. A garbage explosion at a Marine Corps charity race in New Jersey initially seemed to be an isolated incident. Two other unexploded bombs were found nearby and no one was wounded. But the blast in Chelsea that night — which injured 29 people — raised suspicions. The last bomb was discovered in a backpack in a wastebasket outside of an Elizabeth, N.J., neighborhood pub and near the train station. Also that Saturday, a man stabbed nine people at a Minnesota mall before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer. The attacker, of Somali descent and wearing a private security company uniform, reportedly made a reference to Allah and asked at least one person if they were Muslim before he attacked. The ISIS-linked Amaq news agency reported that the jihadist group claimed responsibility for the Minnesota attack.