America’s difficulties in stopping lone-wolf terrorists before they strike was underscored yesterday as reports said that the father of the suspect in last weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey had once told police his son was a terrorist.

美国在阻止独狼恐怖分子发动袭击方面的难度昨日表露无遗，有报道称，上周末纽约和新泽西爆炸案嫌疑人的父亲曾告诉警方他的儿子是恐怖分子。

Federal investigators subsequently met the father of Ahmad Khan Rahami, in 2014, only to hear him recant his claim, the reports said. An official interviewed by the New York Times said it appeared at the time that the father had spoken in anger.

报道称，联邦调查人员随后在2014年见了艾哈迈德汗•拉哈米(Ahmad Khan Rahami)的父亲，但他的父亲却改了口。《纽约时报》(New York Times)采访的一位官员表示，当时他的父亲似乎是在一气之下发出最初的声称的。

The younger Rahami, 28, a US citizen born in Afghanistan, was captured on Monday after he was shot in a gun battle with police in New Jersey. He was being held on state charges of attempted murder and illegal gun possession in the shootout while federal prosecutors prepared their case over the bombings.

现年28岁的拉哈米是一名在阿富汗出生的美国公民，在新泽西与警方交火受伤后，他于周一被捕。他被控在枪战中蓄意谋杀和非法持有枪支，同时联邦检察官准备就爆炸案提出控罪。

Mr Rahami had a record of arrests involving violence and acquaintances who knew him as a car enthusiast said he changed in recent years after visiting Pakistan, where he also was believed to have been married.

拉哈米曾因暴力行为屡次被捕，认识他的人认为他是一名汽车爱好者，他们表示，近年在去过巴基斯坦后他变了，据信，他已在巴基斯坦结婚。

The new information about the contact between police and Mr Rahami’s father emerged as local officials were hailing the quick police work that led to his capture less than 48 hours after bombings that rattled the New York-New Jersey area and put the issue of terrorism back at the forefront of the US presidential campaign.

在有关警方与拉哈米父亲接触的最新消息曝出之际，地方官员称赞警方动作迅速，在爆炸不到48小时后就抓捕了嫌疑人，爆炸震动了纽约和新泽西地区，并让恐怖主义问题重新回到美国总统大选的前沿。

“If we had said when we first started out this would come to a conclusion this quickly, none of us would have believed it,” Andrew Cuomo, governor of New York, said on CNN. “But I think it’s a statement of the time. We’ve gotten so sophisticated in law enforcement, especially in New York. We had a great co-ordinated approach.”

“如果我们一开始就说会如此迅速地破获此案，我们谁都不会相信，”纽约州州长安德鲁•库默(Andrew Cuomo)在CNN表示，“但我认为，这是时代的特征。我们的执法已变得非常老练，特别是在纽约。我们有很棒的协调策略。”

Mr Rahami was suspected after a spree that began with an explosion in the New Jersey shore community of Seaside Park on Saturday morning. A second bomb exploded in the downtown Manhattan neighbourhood of Chelsea on Saturday night, injuring 29 people.

在发生一系列犯罪活动（始于上周六早晨新泽西海滨公园的爆炸案）后，拉哈米被确定为嫌疑人。上周六晚，第二个炸弹在曼哈顿市中心的切尔西街区爆炸，29人受伤。