'Trump you failed to protect your nation': Failed Brooklyn terrorist warned of attack on Facebook just before he tried to blow himself up, prosecutors reveal, as he's hit with federal terrorism charges and authorities in Bangladesh grill his wife

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Akayed Ullah, 27 (pictured), has been charged with criminal possession of a weapon, supporting an act of terrorism and making a terroristic threat

Just before he tried blowing himself up in a New York City subway tunnel on Monday, Akayed Ullah took to Facebook and hinted at his sinister plan while taunting President Trump.  

'Trump you failed to protect your nation,' Ullah posted just before the attack, prosecutors revealed in court on Tuesday as he was hit with federal terrorism charges. 

Ullah also reportedly showed his distaste for his adopted country by writing on his Bangladesh passport 'O, America, die in your rage,' the complaint says. 

The criminal complaint also states that Ullah said he carried out the attack in the name of the Islamic State. 

'I did it for the Islamic State,' he told investigators. 

'Ullah carried out the December 11 attack in part because of the United States government's policies in, among other places, the Middle East. 

'One of Ullah's goals in carrying out the December 11 attack was to terrorize as many people as possible. He chose to carry out the attack on a workday because he believed that there would be more people,' the complaint reads.

Prosecutors say Ullah began the radicalization process back in 2014, when he started watching and reading ISIS propaganda. 

He started buying ingredients for his bomb about two to three weeks ago, and assembled it in his Brooklyn apartment last week.   

The Bangladeshi immigrant faces charges of bombing a public place, using a weapon of mass destruction and material support for a foreign terrorist organization.

He was also hit with state charges including criminal possession of a weapon, supporting an act of terrorism, and making a terroristic threat

It was unclear if the Bangladeshi immigrant, who was hospitalized with burns to his hands and stomach, was well enough to make a court appearance. 

Meanwhile, investigators in Bangladesh were questioning Ullah's wife, 25-year-old Jannatul Ferdous Jui, according to two officials who declined to be identified as they were not permitted to discuss the matter publicly. They did not provide details on the questioning, but said the couple have a six-month-old baby boy.

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Joon Kim, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announces federal terrorism charges against Ullah on Tuesday

The Bangladeshi immigrant detonated a pipe bomb in a commuter tunnel linking Times Square with the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Monday 

Ullah said he carried out Monday's attack as revenge for recent Israeli actions against Palestinians. Above, a video showing the attack 

President Donald Trump on Monday said the attack emphasized the need for U.S. immigration reforms

'We have found his wife and in-laws in Dhaka. We are interviewing them,' one of the police officials told Reuters.

Officials from Bangladesh’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime Department are doing the questioning, Abdul Mannan, an official involved in the investigation, told the Associated Press. 

New York police say Ullah set off a pipe bomb in an underground corridor of the subway system that connects Times Square to the Port Authority Bus Terminal at rush hour on Monday morning, injuring himself and three others. 

The device didn’t work as intended; authorities said Ullah was the only person seriously wounded. But the attack sent frightened commuters fleeing through a smoky passageway, and three people suffered headaches and ringing ears from the first bomb blast in the subway in more than two decades. 

Ullah’s low-tech bomb used explosive powder, a nine-volt battery, a Christmas light and matches, the officials said. Investigators said the suspect was seen on surveillance footage igniting the bomb. In the end, it wasn’t powerful enough to turn the pipe into deadly shrapnel, the officials said. 

Ullah reportedly married his wife two years ago and they have a six-month-old baby boy together. Above, the apartment building in Dhaka, Bangladesh where Ullah used to live

Journalists try to talk with the family members of 27-year-old Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah, at a building where he used to live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017

A man parks a motorcycle inside a building where 27-year-old Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah, used to live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017

A man standing on the street is reflected on the window of a building where 27-year-old Bangladeshi man Akayed Ullah, used to live in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an attempted terrorist attack, and U.S. officials said it appeared to be a rare if not unprecedented attempt at a suicide bombing on U.S. soil.

Ullah survived with burns and lacerations and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in police custody.  

Despite his injuries, Ullah spoke to investigators from his hospital bed, law enforcement officials said. He was 'all over the place' about his motive but indicated he wanted to avenge what he portrayed as U.S. aggression against the Islamic State group, a law enforcement official said. Ullah also said the attack was revenge for recent Israeli actions against Palestinians.  

The NYPD and the Federal Bureau of Investigation were conducting the investigation in conjunction with other agencies through the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and were asking the public for any information about the suspect.

Authorities in Bangladesh began to track down Ullah's family soon after news of the attack broke and they first found a cousin, said a third official, Mahiuddin Mahmud.

Meanwhile, Ullah's wife, who lives in Bangladesh, is reportedly being interviewed by authorities there. Above, commuters walking through the tunnel where the incident happened on Tuesday

Ullah was hospitalized after the failed attack for burns and lacerations to his stomach and hands. Pictured above being loaded onto a stretcher after the attack

Ullah is expected to survive his injuries. He's pictured above being loaded into an ambulance after the attack 

'We learned from his cousin that he had a wife and a baby in Bangladesh,' Mahmud said.

The cousin, Emdad Ullah, told Reuters that Ullah and his family originally lived in the Chittagong region in southern Bangladesh, but had moved to the capital, Dhaka, years ago.

Ullah married a Bangladeshi woman about two years ago and she lived in Dhaka, the cousin said, adding that he was educated in Bangladesh before he moved to the United States.

Ullah stayed in the country for about three months after the marriage. He most recently returned on September 8 for a visit, leaving his wife and child behind when he returned to the U.S. 

On his last visit to Bangladesh, the suspect mostly remained inside a small apartment in Dhaka’s Hazribagh area, said his uncle, Abdul Ahad. His nephew arrived in Bangladesh on September 8 and returned to New York on Oct. 22, he said.

'He went out of his residence to offer prayers at a nearby mosque,' Ahad told the AP.

Bangladesh's police chief had told Reuters on Monday that Ullah had no criminal record in his home country, which he last visited in September.

Ullah lived with his mother, sister and two brothers in Brooklyn and was a green card holder, said Shameem Ahsan, consul general of Bangladesh in New York.

A U.S. enforcement official familiar with the investigation into Monday's attack said officers had found evidence that Ullah had watched Islamic State propaganda on the internet.

Ullah said he carried out the attack as revenge for recent Israeli actions against Palestinians. Above, the scene near the failed bombing on Monday 

The failed bombing caused transit chaos for many New Yorkers on Monday  

Bangladesh strongly condemned the attack.

'A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his or her ethnicity or religion, and must be brought to justice,' the government said in a statement.

John Miller, NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism, said Tuesday on CBS 'This Morning' that Ullah didn’t seem to have any obvious problems.

He 'was living here, went through number of jobs, was not particularly struggling financially or had any known pressures,' Miller said, adding Ullah 'was not on our radar at NYPD, not on the FBI radar.' 

The attack came less than two months after eight people died near the World Trade Center in a truck attack that, authorities said, was carried out by an Uzbek immigrant who admired the Islamic State group. 

President Donald Trump on Monday said the attack emphasized the need for U.S. immigration reforms.

'America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country,' he said in a statement.

The president also criticized the visa program that allowed Ullah to enter the United States in 2011 because he had family members already in the country, saying such family visas are 'incompatible with national security.'

H.T. Imam, a political adviser to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said he believed the attack would have no 'negative impact' on relations with the United States.

Police were seen speaking to residents at Ullah's Flatlands home on Monday morning. Police reportedly talked to Ullah's father, mother and brother at this home 

A woman in a headscarf was seen being led away from an address in Ocean Parkway connected to Ullah on Monday 

Above another view of the Kensington apartment building connected to Ullah 

'The U.S. government is well informed about the Bangladesh government's attitude regarding terror activities,' Imam said.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week handed a victory to Trump by allowing his latest travel ban, targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries, to go into full effect even as legal challenges continued in lower courts.

The ban covers people from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen seeking to enter the United States. Trump has said the travel ban is needed to protect the United States from terrorism by Islamist militants.

Bangladesh is not among the countries impacted by the ban.

Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority country governed by largely secular laws, has struggled with a rise in radical Islam in recent years.

In July last year, the country was shocked when five young men who reportedly belonged to the domestic militant group Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh attacked a popular restaurant frequented by foreigners and wealthy Bangladeshis, leaving 20 hostages, including 17 foreigners, dead. During the attack the men sprayed bullets and threw grenades.

Smaller attacks have targeted secular academics, atheist bloggers, foreigners and members of the country’s tiny Hindu minority.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for most of the attacks, including the one at the restaurant, but the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina denied that the Sunni extremist group has any presence in the impoverished country. The government has blamed the attacks on local radical groups.

Over the last year, the government has intensified a crackdown on Islamist militants and has killed dozens of suspects, including some accused of being the masterminds of the restaurant attack.

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