New York City and New Jersey terror bombings suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami's father – a former Mujahedeen fighter in Afghanistan – appeared stunned Monday by the allegations against his son.
Mohammed Rahami – whom a neighbor described as a former member of the Mujahedeen who was anti-Taliban – spoke briefly to a reporter as he pulled up to the family's restaurant in Linden, N.J.
"It's very hard to talk right now," the elder Rahami tells NBC News reporter Kerry Sanders. "I'm not sure what's going on."
Sanders told MSNBC's "Live With Kate Snow" that "Bottom line, the father seems to me that he didn't want to say, or didn't know what to say, talking about what has now happened and why his son may have been involved in this or not."
Jonathan Wagner, a neighbor and a former Marine who served in Afghanistan, told Haaretz that he'd known the family for 18 years.
"The father used to be a Mujahedeen in Afghanistan," he said, referring to the guerilla-type fighters who battled the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
"He is from the same city where I was deployed as a Marine," Wagner added, saying that the father spoke about how the Taliban was running Afghanistan, Haaretz reported.
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