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Captured

Ahmad Khan Rahami is taken into custody after a shootout with police Monday, Sept. 19, 2016, in Linden, N.J. Rahami was wanted for questioning in the bombings
that rocked the Chelsea neighborhood of New York and the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park.

                                                                                                                                                                                (Nicolaus Czarnecki/Boston Herald via AP)

Suspect Wanted in US Bombings Captured in Shootout

Associated Press            bar roused him and quickly   identified in an FBI bulletin  triggered a running gun         loaded into the back of an
LINDEN, N.J. (AP) — A New   recognized his bearded       just hours earlier as a man    battle in the street that end-  ambulance, just 50 hours
Jersey police officer re-   face as that of perhaps the  wanted in the weekend          ed with Rahami wounded          after the first blast that start-
sponding to a call about a  most wanted man in Amer-     bombings in New York City      and in custody Monday,          ed it all.
hoodied vagrant curled up   ica.                         and New Jersey — pulled        authorities said.
asleep in the doorway of a  Ahmad Khan Rahami —          a gun, shot the officer and    A bloodied Rahami was                  Continued on Page 4

Obama, Iraqi leader vow rapid offensive to retake Mosul 

JOSH LEDERMAN                         mark a major turning point in the    and the U.S.-led coalition could       militants, in part because he said
Associated Press                      campaign to defeat the extremist     make progress in Mosul “fairly rap-    “the Iraqi forces are getting more
NEW YORK (AP) — President             group.                               idly,” adding that he was hoping       confident.”
Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime          Neither leader glossed over the      for progress by year-end.              Abadi, speaking in English,
Minister Haider al-Abadi put the Is-  immense difficulty of the battle     “This is going to be hard. It’s going  echoed Obama’s timeline for re-
lamic State group on notice Mon-      ahead as they met in New York        to be challenging. It will require     taking Mosul, Iraq’s second-larg-
day that they plan to recapture       on the sidelines of a U.N. summit.   resources,” Obama said. But he         est city and the IS stronghold in
the city of Mosul within months.      Still, Obama said he and Abadi       professed confidence that more         Iraq. He called the group a “huge
If successful, the operation could    were confident that Iraq’s military  territory can be wrested from the      threat” to Iraq’s stability.q