Muslim migrant terrorist POS from Uzbekistan mows down civilians on bike path - kills 8 - cripples..

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Several people shot in downtown Manhattan
By Tina Moore and Daniel Prendergast
October 31, 2017 | 3:31pm | Updated

At least six people were shot by a gunman firing from his car in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, police sources said.

Cops were notified of the shooting, which took place at West Street and Chambers Street, at 3:15 p.m., according to police. The shooter is in police custody, cops said.

“Someone who was eyewitness said cab driver fired shots,” a Twitter user wrote.

Video of the scene shows at least two people lying limp in the street.

Police shut down the FDR to rush victims to Bellevue Hospital.
 
8 Dead, 15 Injured When Truck Strikes Pedestrians In Allahu Akbar Attack Lower Manhattan

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6 Dead, 15 Injured When Truck Strikes Pedestrians In Possible Terror Incident Lower Manhattan
October 31, 2017 4:51 PM

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Six people were killed after a truck plowed into several people on a bike path in Lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, sources told CBS2.

Fifteen people were injured.

A suspect was shot by police and is in custody.

The incident began at 3:04 p.m. when the truck went southbound on the bike path along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan.

The truck rammed bicyclists from behind and ultimately smashed into a school bus with four people on board at Chambers Street, according to the NYPD.

Four people on board the school bus were injured. Fifteen people total were injured in the incident, one critically.

Witnesses told the NYPD that a man emerged from the truck with what appeared to be two weapons.

Authorities initially said the incident appeared to be a case of road rage. The incident is now being investigated as a possible act of terrorism.
 
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8 dead, 15 injured in rampage, apparent act of terror on NYC bike path in Manhattan

LOWER MANHATTAN, New York (WABC) --
At least eight people are dead and more than a dozen were injured after a truck mowed down people on a bike path in New York City Tuesday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news conference that this appears to be an act of terrorism that was deliberately carried out.

The incident happened just after 3 p.m. ET on the bike path that runs along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan.

The NYPD said a truck entered the West Street pedestrian/bike path a few blocks north of Chambers Street. It proceeded to strike multiple people on the path.

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At least seven people were killed and around 15 injured in a possible terror attack in lower Manhattan after a suspect driving a rental Home Depot truck rammed into people on a bike path and the suspect then emerged from the vehicle brandishing a fake weapon. “City officials believe this incident was deliberate and a possible act of terrorism,” reported ABC7.

NBC News also reported that there were casualties, although it was not yet clear for sure how many, writing on Twitter, “Multiple people are dead and several are injured following an incident in lower Manhattan, per a senior New York City official.” Be forewarned that some of the videos and photos below are graphic. CNN reported that the FBI and NYPD are investigating the incident as a “terrorism attack.” According to CNN, witnesses said the driver of the truck was shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great in Arabic) during the attack. The FBI has taken over as the lead investigating agency, reported CNN.
 
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Cops ID suspected terrorist in deadly downtown truck rampage
By Tina Moore
October 31, 2017 | 5:06pm | Updated

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A woman is aided by first responders after sustaining injury on a bike path in lower Manhattan in New York


The FBI and NYPD have launched a terror probe into the deadly incident in which a pickup truck driver fatally mowed down at least eight people in downtown Manhattan Tuesday afternoon, police sources said.

The truck driver — later identified as 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov —plowed into several people along the West Side bike path and shouted “Allahu Akbar” after getting out of his vehicle, according to sources.

Saipov’s last known address was Tampa, Florida, according to public records.

After the crash, he also displayed “imitation firearms” that panicked witnesses thought were real.

Eight people were killed on the bike path before the driver was shot by police. He is expected to survive.

Mayor de Blasio and other officials called the attack a “cowardly” act of terror at a press conference Tuesday night.
 
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Terror suspect penned note saying ‘ISIS Lives Forever’
By Laurie Mizrahi and Lia Eustachewich
November 1, 2017 | 11:12am | Updated

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Sayfullo Saipov
AP


The Uzbek-born driver allegedly behind the deadly terror attack in lower Manhattan had a note in his rental truck that said, “ISIS Lives Forever,” according to a report.

Police found the tribute to the terror organization inside the Home Depot rental truck that Sayfullo Saipov used to fatally plow into eight people Tuesday afternoon, a senior official told NBC News.

At least one knife also was found in the vehicle.

Saipov, who fled but was shot in the abdomen by an NYPD police officer, showed no remorse and bragged about the attack while questioned by authorities at the hospital.

Sources told The Post there was also an image of the Islamic State flag inside the truck.

A neighbor at the Tampa apartment complex where Saipov used to live before moving to Paterson, New Jersey, said the 29-year-old had a newborn baby and a 2-year-old.

He and a woman believed to be his wife usually kept to themselves.

“He never spoke to anybody and he really didn’t smile,” said Melissa Matthews, who lived next door to the family. “I never saw any friends or visitors.”

Saipov had a white SUV with New Jersey plates, which he drove recklessly through the complex, Matthews recalled.
 
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Feds interviewed NYC terror suspect in 2015
By Lia Eustachewich
November 1, 2017 | 1:37pm | Updated

The driver who allegedly killed eight people in the Manhattan terror attack was interviewed by feds in 2015 — but officials didn’t have enough information on him to open a case, according to a new report.

Authorities with the Department of Homeland Security Investigations Unit had probed Sayfullo Saipov about his possible ties to suspected terrorists, ABC News reported Wednesday.

Saipov’s name and address were listed as a “point of contact” for two men whose names were on the Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit’s list after they arrived in the US from “threat countries,” a federal source told ABC.

Saipov was interviewed two years ago in Paterson, New Jersey, where he has a current address. The 29-year-old Uzbek native came to the US through a Diversity Visa Program lottery in 2010 — making him a legal permanent resident. :mad:

His social media activity has linked him to others who are or were subjects of terror probes, ABC said. But it’s not clear whether he was part of a cell or directed to carry out Tuesday’s deadly attack.

Saipov was carrying a note pledging allegiance to ISIS and an image of the Islamic State flag inside his Home Depot rental truck, which he used to plow into people along a bike path on the West Side. Eight people were killed and 11 injured.
 
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NYC terror suspect is fourth from Uzbekistan linked to an attack
By Yaron Steinbuch
November 1, 2017 | 9:51am

The Uzbekistan-born man captured in the wake of a deadly attack with a rental attack in Lower Manhattan is not the first immigrant from the Central Asian country to be linked to terrorism.

If confirmed, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, would be the fourth assailant with ties to the Muslim-majority country to launch an attack in less than a year, according to Agence France-Presse.

According to the International Crisis Group, between 2,000 and 4,000 militants from Central Asia may have signed up under the banner of ISIS. :mad:

And the largest single group of the terror group’s supporters among Central Asians were either Uzbek nationals or ethnic Uzbeks from neighboring states, the group said.

Uzbekistan, which gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, has been ruled by a dictator who has imposed strict controls on how his citizens practice religion and who can attend mosques.

This tough environment has caused many young Uzbeks to flee the country and seek opportunities abroad – including in Syria to fight alongside the jihadists, experts told Newsweek.

“Uzbekistan is a large country and its economy is not very vibrant. It is also one of the most oppressive countries in the world, so young people are fleeing the dictatorship and at the same time aren’t able to fit in Western societies,” said Erica Marat of the College of International Security Affairs.

“Patterns of radicalization for Uzbeks are somewhat similar to that of migrants from other countries, an inability to fit into the society where they live, an inability to live the American dream. So they are looking for ways to belong and extremist narratives seem to be the most attractive.”

Uzbekistan, which borders volatile Afghanistan, has never released an estimated number of its citizens suspected of having joined the ranks of extremist groups abroad.

Uzbekistan-born Abdulkadir Masharipov confessed to killing 39 people at the Reina nightclub in Istanbul on New Year’s Eve.

Officials believe he trained as a militant both in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and had contacts inside Syria with ISIS, according to the BBC.

Akbarjon Djalilov, 22, the alleged attacker in a Saint Petersburg, Russia, metro bombing that killed 14 in April, was believed to be a Russian citizen born to an Uzbek family in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan.

The same month, Rakhmat Akilov, a 39-year-old Uzbek national, was arrested after a truck attack in Stockholm that killed four people.

He had left a wife and four children behind in Uzbekistan in order to earn money to send home, but had been denied a request for residency in Sweden and expressed sympathy with ISIS, according to the BBC.

And this month, Brooklyn resident Abdurasul Juraboev, 27, an Uzbek national who ranted that he wanted to kill President Obama or bomb Coney Island on behalf of ISIS, pleaded guilty to terror raps in Brooklyn federal court and faces 15 years in the slammer.

Prosecutors said Juraboev posted angry online threats on an Uzbeki-language Web site and later told the feds that he supported ISIS’s violent plans in the Middle East.

Despite being a hotbed of extremism, Uzbekistan has been a partner in the war on terror, and leased an airbase to the US for its Afghanistan operations.

Uzbekistan — which quit a Russia-led security organization in 2012 — canceled the lease after Washington called for an independent investigation into a brutal crackdown on protesters in 2005.

But the US continued to use the country as a strategic location to deliver goods and military equipment into Afghanistan even after the base closed, Newsweek reported.
 
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Cuomo: NYC terror suspect was ‘radicalized domestically’
By Lia Eustachewich
November 1, 2017 | 9:20am | Updated

The driver who plowed a rental truck into a group of people in Lower Manhattan was “radicalized domestically :rolleyes:,” Gov. Cuomo said Wednesday.

“All the evidence we have is that he was a quote unquote lone-wolf model. :rolleyes: He has had several run-ins with the law which were basically minor vehicular traffic,” Cuomo said on CNN. “He is a depraved coward is what he is. He was associated with ISIS and he was radicalized domestically and he’s a depraved coward.” :rolleyes:

Cuomo said the deadly terror attack – which left eight people dead along a bike path – was an “isolated incident.” :rolleyes:

The driver was identified as 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, who lived in Paterson, New Jersey, and left handwritten notes pledging loyalty to ISIS in the Home Depot rental truck used in the attack.

“Again ISIS has gotten it down to a simple formula that they can put on the internet and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to rent a car, rent a truck,” Cuomo said.

The governor added that terrorists who’ve attacked New York City have a “100 percent failure rate” – including Tuesday’s deadly incident. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

“It was a failed attempt :rolleyes:,” Cuomo said. “Yes, we lost eight lives and we cry and we pray but last night we had our Halloween parade and I marched … not because I had a great costume but my point was we’re here, we’re going on, we’re celebrating, kids are going back to school today. The terrorists failed once again.” :rolleyes:
 
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NYC terror suspect boasting about deadly attack
By Yaron Steinbuch
November 1, 2017 | 9:03am | Updated

The Uzbek man who carried out an ISIS-inspired attack by mowing down tourists along a Big Apple bike path has shown no remorse — and was practically boastful about it, a senior official told NBC News.

Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, remained in critical but stable condition at Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday after undergoing surgery.

A police officer shot him in the stomach after he jumped out of a rental truck holding realistic-looking pistols that turned out to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun.

He has refused to answer an initial round of questions, according to the network.
 
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Authorities seek Uzbek national as person of interest in NYC terror attack
By Danika Fears
November 1, 2017 | 5:18pm | Updated

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Mukhammadzoir Kadirov
FBI; NYPD


Authorities want to question an Uzbek national who is a person of interest in the deadly terror attack in lower Manhattan Tuesday afternoon.

The feds released a wanted poster for Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, 32, Wednesday evening, saying they’re seeking information about him.

“Law enforcement officials are seeking the public’s assistance with information about Mukhammadzoir Kadirov in relation to the deadly attack in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City, New York, on October 31, 2017,” the poster reads.

On Tuesday, Uzbek-born terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov plowed a rented truck into cyclists and pedestrians on a bike path along the West Side highway, killing eight people, according to police.
 
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Terror suspect was rude customer at local supermarket
By Joe Marino
October 31, 2017 | 10:20pm | Updated

The driver who mowed down people with a truck in Manhattan, killing 8, was known as an “erratic” customer who berated the cashiers at his local supermarket.

Sayfullo Saipov, 29, was notorious for his behavior at the Farm Boy Super Fresh Supermarket on Getty avenue in Paterson, NJ, the manager said.

“Every time he came here he was always erratic or arguing with the cashiers,” she told The Post about the terror killer. “He would get angry very fast…. he would break the cans, dumb things.”

The manager, who declined to give her name, said Saipov was very rude to the cashiers, and called them “uneducated.”

“I feel like he was prejudice to the cashiers — whether they were covered or not in a hijab — he would belittle them,” the manager said.

“He was talking good English, proper, but he would call the cashiers dumb, uneducated — how they didn’t know how to scan the items.”

Saipov, who is in police custody and recovering from a gunshot wound, also regularly argued about the price of Canada Dry Ginger Ale.

“Soda was the problem. He would come here and buy soda,” the manager said.

“He would give us a hard time on the 12-pack Canada Dry — if it was one price he would want his own price. It was always the soda, always a problem with the 12-pack of cans. Always a problem.”
 
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ISIS supporters praise NYC truck attack, joke about low death count
By Chris Perez
October 31, 2017 | 8:36pm | Updated

ISIS supporters have been praising the deadly truck rampage in downtown Manhattan following reports that the driver was a suspected terrorist who shouted “Allahu Akbar” just moments after getting out of his vehicle.

Pro-Islamic State channels have posted commemorative posters online — which feature photographs that were taken at the scene and edited images of the Statue of Liberty being blown up.

Rukmini Callimachi, a correspondent for The New York Times that has covered the terror group since 2014, has been sharing the disturbing propaganda on her Twitter page in the wake of Tuesday’s incident.

She has also tweeted out texts that were reportedly sent through the Telegram messenger service between some of the sympathizers, in which they joke about the low death toll.

“Sounds like one of our brothers,” said one person named Abdullah Sami.

“Trick-or-treat New York City. Alhamdulillah Happy Hauntings,” they added, posting laughing emojis, as well.

“If it was my truck it would have been on a much bigger Street,” replied another user, identified as Abdullah Sami.

According to Callimachi, the pro-ISIS channels are “not official communications by the terrorist group,” but they still offer insight into what supporters have been doing following the attack,

“The channels are part of ISIS’ online ecosystem,” she tweeted. “I like to think of them as ISIS weathervanes, showing us which way the wind is blowing.”

Callimachi also noted how a French pro-ISIS group known as the an-Nur Centre Mediative posted a “specific threat against Halloween” on Monday, though it’s unclear if the intended target was in France or NYC.

A commemorative poster, which was circulating online, showed the Eiffel Tower, a machete and blood splashed on the front.

“Typically the threats are more amorphous – “Attack London! Attack Paris!” I rarely see a date on ISIS threats (though it’s not 1st time),” Callimachi said. “The threat was distributed in at least 4 languages. I don’t know what to make of it. We often see threats. Is the date here meaningful?”

Tuesday’s incident in Manhattan left eight people dead and nearly a dozen injured. The driver has been identified as 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov — an Uzbeki national whose last known address was in Tampa, Florida.

The FBI and NYPD is investigating.
 
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NYC terror suspect prayed at mosque probed after 9/11
By Reuven Fenton and Max Jaeger
November 1, 2017 | 11:01pm | Updated

Manhattan truck terrorist Sayfullo Saipov prayed at the same New Jersey mosque that was the target of a controversial NYPD surveillance operation following 9/11, according to neighbors.

Saipov, who allegedly killed eight and injured 12 when he drove a rented truck down a lower Manhattan bike path, worshiped at the Omar Masjid mosque around the corner from his Paterson home, residents said.

Slavo Petrov, who lives around the corner from the Getty Avenue mosque, said he had seen Saipov going into the house of worship, according to NJ.com.

Another neighbor told The Post that they had seen Saipov, who lives around the corner on Genessee Avenue, coming and going from the mosque as well.

A controversial 2007 NYPD report noted that only about nine Uzbeks worshiped at the large, mostly Middle Eastern mosque.

In 2006, the NYPD began secretly recording congregants’ license plates and snapping their photos.

They even sent in “mosque crawlers” to eavesdrop on conversations going on inside Omar Masjid.

It was part of a larger surveillance operation on metro-area mosques following 9/11.

The New York Snivel Liberties Jewnion sued the city in 2013 over the spying, which it claimed was done “without any suspicion of wrongdoing.”

According to a settlement reached in March of this year, race, religion or ethnicity can no longer be motivating factors in the department’s decision to run surveillance operations.

The agreement also created a civilian position to act as a watchdog against unwarranted spying by the NYPD.
 
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Why terror suspect attacked on Halloween
By Larry Celona, Reuven Fenton and Danika Fears
November 1, 2017 | 9:50pm | Updated

He picked Halloween to maximize his kill count — and took several dry runs to get it just right.

ISIS-inspired terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov meticulously plotted his attack on the West Side bike path for about a year, and made several trips into Manhattan to plot his course, authorities revealed Wednesday.

“Saipov chose October 31, Halloween, for the attack because he believed there would be more civilians on the street for the holiday,” the feds wrote in a 10-page complaint.

Sources added that he was specifically hoping there would be kids among the carnage.

On Oct. 22, Saipov rented a truck so he could “practice making turns” — then drove into Manhattan twice on the same day just a few days before he plowed into nearly two dozen people on the Lower West Side, according to the feds and law enforcement sources.

Saipov used his E-ZPass to drive though the Holland Tunnel twice on Oct. 28, and his car was also spotted on the George Washington Bridge the same day, law enforcement sources said.

The 29-year-old killer intended to mow down pedestrians on the Brooklyn Bridge after leaving behind a trail of carnage on the West Side bike path — but crashed into a school bus first, the feds said.

“Saipov wanted to kill as many people as he could,” the complaint states.

Police found a stun gun and three knives inside his crumpled truck at West and Chambers streets, along with a note praising ISIS.

The handwritten note, which included both Arabic and English, read, “No God but God and Muhammad is his Prophet” and declared, “Islamic Supplication. It will endure,” authorities said.

“He did this in the name of ISIS,” John Miller, deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism for the NYPD, said Wednesday.

About two months ago, Saipov decided to carry out the terror attack with a truck, a method ripped straight out of the ISIS playbook, authorities said.

“He appears to have followed almost exactly to a T the instructions that ISIS has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to their followers on how to carry out such an attack,” Miller explained.

On Oct. 4, Saipov searched online for the Home Depot store in Passaic, NJ, where he rented the truck used in the massacre, the feds said.

Less than two weeks later, he researched “Halloween in NYC” online, and then looked up truck rentals at the Home Depot store on Oct. 18, according to the feds.

He rented a flatbed pickup truck from the Passiac Home Depot an hour before attack.

“Saipov rented the truck from the store for a period of two hours but had no intention of ever returning it,” the feds said.

He drove into New York on the George Washington Bridge, then plowed into cyclists and pedestrians on the downtown bike path, officials said.

“Saipov wanted to display ISIS flags in the front and back of the truck during the attack, but decided against it because he did not want to draw attention to himself,” the feds said.

His rampage ended when he crashed into a bus and emerged screaming, “Allahu Akbar,” while holding paintball and pellet guns.

NYPD Officer Ryan Nash then shot him in the stomach.

The feds interviewed Saipov in 2015 about his possible ties to suspected terrorists — but didn’t have enough damning evidence to build a case against him, ABC News reported.

His name and address were listed as a “point of contact” for two men whose names were on the Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit’s list after they arrived in the US from “threat countries,” a federal source told ABC.

One of the men was considered a “suspected terrorist.”

Miller said Saipov, who came to the US in 2010 through a Diversity Visa Program lottery, was never the subject of an FBI investigation.

“What we are looking for is how has he touched the subjects of other investigations,” he said.
 
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NYC terror suspect allegedly asked to hang ISIS flag in hospital room
By Kaja Whitehouse
November 1, 2017 | 5:27pm | Updated

The Uzbeki national accused of killing eight people on the Lower West Side bike path was so loyal to ISIS that he asked if he could fly the terror group’s flag inside his Bellevue Hospital room, authorities revealed Wednesday.

Sayfullo Saipov also boasted that “he felt good” about the Tuesday-afternoon pickup truck attack, which injured 18, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Federal prosecutors said Saipov was inspired to commit mass murder by watching hours of ISIS snuff films on his cellphone, and had been plotting the heinous attack for at least a year.

“In particular, Saipov was motivated to commit the attack after viewing a video in which [ISIS leader] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi . . . questioned what Muslims in the United States and elsewhere were doing to respond to the killing of Muslims in Iraq,” the complaint says.

Saipov, 29, first arrived in the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010. Neighbors and public records paint the accused killer as a longtime “radical” who didn’t pay his taxes, ignored warrants and freaked out his own imam with his emotional intensity.

He always seemed to be carrying a dark secret, according to José Mejia, 49, who lives near Saipov’s current address in Paterson, NJ.

“He always looked like he was hiding something,” the neighbor told The Post.

“I’d see him a couple times with some people, I didn’t know if it was family or friends. Just from the way he looked, I thought he seemed very secretive.”

And Saipov’s 24-year-old wife, Nozima Odilova, apparently shared his gruff nature, according to neighbor Maria Rivera, 47, who recalled an icy reception when she found one of the couple’s two young daughters wandering the neighborhood and returned the girl home.

“I said, ‘Listen, your daughter, she was in the middle of the street,’ ” Rivera recalled. “And she didn’t say nothing to me. She walked inside the house. No ‘Thank you,’ no nothing.”

A Florida imam said he was distressed by Saipov’s behavior shortly before the terror suspect moved to New Jersey this year.

“I used to tell him, ‘Hey, you are too much emotional,’ ” the imam, named Abdula, told the New York Times.

“He did not learn religion properly. That’s the main disease in the Muslim community.”

Saipov’s intensity accelerated over the last year, according to the criminal complaint, which states that he began planning his attack a year ago by watching ISIS training videos.

The federal complaint says he had about 90 videos that included “what appear to be ISIS fighters killing a prisoner by running the prisoner over with a tank.”

Other footage featured “ISIS fighters shooting a prisoner in the face . . . a video of a beheading . . . [and] instructions for how to make a homemade improvised explosive device,” the complaint says.

Saipov’s cellphone “also contains approximately 3,800 images, many of which appear to be ISIS propaganda.”

One day after the bike-path massacre, Saipov reveled in his own bloodshed.

“Saipov requested to display ISIS’s flag in his hospital room and stated that he felt good about what he had done,” the complaint states.

Saipov, who was shot in the stomach by police, was wheeled into a Manhattan federal courtroom Wednesday evening shackled at his legs and feet.

Magistrate judge Barbara Moses read him his rights and he answered the mainly yes or no questions through a Russian interpreter — piping up himself once to say “thank you” in broken English when the judge approved his request for a court-appointed lawyer.

He was held without bail.

The complaint against Saipov does not say when or where he was radicalized.

He “was admitted to the U.S. upon presentation of a passport with a valid diversity immigrant visa to U.S. Customs and Border Protection in 2010,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.

His first stop was Cincinnati, where he stayed with family friends for two weeks. Even then, it was clear something was off, according to foster family member Dilnoza Abdusamatova.

“He always used to work,” she told the Cincinnati Enquirer. “He wouldn’t go to parties or anything. He only used to come home and rest and leave and go back to work.”

He bounced between Florida and Ohio, racking up several traffic tickets along the way.

He was in Ohio by the end of 2011, according to truck driver and Uzbek national Mirrakhmat Muminov, who remembered him as “not happy with his life.”

“He had the habit of disagreeing with everybody,” Muminov said.

In August 2012, he copped a guilty plea to two traffic violations in Pennsylvania, records show.

He and his wife Odilova married in 2013, records state. They have two daughters :mad:, and Odilova also may have given birth to a son over the summer :mad:, according to the imam, Abdulla.

The state of Ohio put a lien against Saipov in August 2015 for failing to pay $400 in back property taxes, but he had already moved to Florida, records show.

In December 2015, he was ticketed for driving in Missouri with faulty brakes — he never paid or even bothered to show up in court, and in April 2016, a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Missouri court records state he was served the warrant at his Tampa home late last year.
 
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ISIS calls NYC terror suspect ‘soldier of the caliphate’
By Associated Press
November 3, 2017 | 2:53am | Updated

A propaganda arm of the Islamic State group is calling the man charged in the New York City truck rampage a “soldier of the caliphate.”

A message in an Islamic State weekly newspaper used the term in an item published late Thursday. That item then was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group.

The Islamic State group has an interest in taking credit for attacks carried out by individuals who are self-radicalized. Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen said he acted on behalf of the group, which claimed him as a “soldier of the caliphate,” but there is no evidence he was in contact with the group.

Police say truck attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov drove his speeding truck onto a bike path on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 12.
 
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Mom hurt in NYC terror attack loses both legs
By Tamar Lapin
November 4, 2017 | 12:21pm

A Belgian mother who biked for charities all over the world had to have both her legs amputated after they were severely mangled in Tuesday’s terror attack in lower Manhattan.

Marion Van Reeth, 54, was one of twelve people hospitalized following the attack, along with her husband and 16-year-old-son, who both suffered neck and head injuries.

She was initially listed as having “massive trauma to both legs,” but a Belgian government official in New York, who insisted on anonymity, confirmed the worst case scenario, adding that the family has given strict instructions that they wished to be left in private.

Van Reeth is a marketing communications manager for Brussels Airlines, according to their website, and was part of the company-sponsored charitable program “Bike for Africa,” which took her on long expeditions through Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Senegal and Gambia.

The family lives in Antwerp, where husband, Aristide Melissas, 47, works as an executive for a plastics company his family founded in 1948.

The list of seriously injured also includes Martin Marro, 48, a Boston resident and Argentina native who lost five friends in the attack. Other Argentinians who survived the attack visited Marro in the hospital late Thursday to tell him for the first time that his friends had been killed.

Among those shaken up but not seriously hurt was Noah Salz, a 17-year-old, who was on the school bus hit by the attacker’s rented Home Depot truck.

“I heard a loud crash sound and the bus matron landed right on me,” the teen told WABC.

“I started to cry and then I said, ‘I just want to get out of here as quickly as I can.’ Then I sat there for a minute and heard a gunshot, and I heard it and it was really loud.”

Salz was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital with minor injuries—but insisted on going to school the next day so he wouldn’t ruin his perfect attendance.
 
https://nypost.com/2017/11/21/accused-nyc-terrorist-faces-20-new-charges-including-murder/

Accused NYC terrorist faces 20 new charges, including murder
By Kaja Whitehouse
November 21, 2017 | 6:38pm

Manhattan federal prosecutors have supercharged their efforts to ​ultimately ​put alleged West Side terrorist Sayfullo Saipov to death with an indictment handed up Tuesday that charges him with an additional 20 counts, including murder and attempted murder.

Under the grand jury indictment, Saipov, 29, now faces ​eight counts of murder in aid of racketeering — all of which carry the potential for life in prison or death — as well as one count of violence and destruction of motor vehicle, which also comes with a potential death sentence.

In total, he faces 22 counts — up from the two counts he was charged with initially.

Previously, only one of the two counts he faced — for violence and destruction of motor vehicle — carried the potential for death or life in prison.

The Patterson, NJ, resident was arrested on Halloween after he allegedly killed eight people and inured a dozen by speeding over a popular bike-only path in lower Manhattan in a rental truck.

The Uzbeki national, who was taken into custody after he was shot by NYPD, was so shameless about his loyalty to ISIS in the aftermath of the attack that he asked if he could fly the terror group’s flag inside his Bellevue Hospital room, the feds have said.

“As alleged in this indictment, Sayfullo Saipov murdered eight innocent people and injured many more in a calculated act of terrorism in the heart of one of our great cities,” US Attorney General Jeff Sessions said of Tuesday’s indictment.

“Like New York City’s response to his alleged attack, we expect that justice in this case will be swift, firm, and resolute,” Acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim vowed.
 
https://nypost.com/2017/11/28/accused-nyc-terrorist-pleads-not-guilty-to-slew-of-new-charges/

Accused NYC terrorist pleads not guilty to slew of new charges
By Kaja Whitehouse
November 28, 2017 | 5:46pm

Rental truck “terrorist” Sayfullo Saipov walked into Manhattan federal court on his own two feet Tuesday to plead not guilty to charges that he murdered eight people by mowing them down with a rental truck.

“Not guilty,” Saipov’s lawyer, federal defender David Patton told Judge Vernon Broderick of his client, who faces the death penalty if convicted.

Saipov, 29, was wheeled into court for his first court appearance on Nov. 1st after getting shot by a quick-thinking NYPD cop.

He appeared fully recovered from the Halloween shootout on Tuesday, however, and entered the courtroom without trouble, despite leg shackles.

The Uzbek immigrant stands accused of using a Home Depot rental truck used to mow down dozen of people, killing eight and injuring dozens, before emerging from the truck with two fake guns while screaming “Allahu Akbar” — Arabic for “God is great.”

He was indicted last week on a slew of upgraded charges, including nine counts that carry the death penalty or life in prison.
 
https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/accused-nyc-terrorist-would-plead-guilty-to-dodge-death-penalty/

Accused NYC terrorist would plead guilty to dodge death penalty
By Priscilla DeGregory
January 17, 2018 | 5:33pm

Accused Manhattan bike-path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov — who allegedly killed eight people in a Halloween horror — is trying to dodge death himself now.

Saipov, 29, says he would admit guilt in the case as part of a plea deal — as long as it ensures him life imprisonment instead of a possible death penalty, according to papers filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday.

Saipov allegedly used a Home Depot rental truck to run over crowds of people on a downtown Manhattan bike path before a cop at the scene shot him down.

Saipov, of Uzbekistan, faces nine charges that carry the death penalty or life in prison upon conviction.

Prosecutors have not yet indicated whether they would even intend to seek the death penalty.

Saipov’s attorneys said they would agree to a plea deal that ensured Saipov would get life in prison without parole to avoid “years of appeals and other post-conviction litigation” that comes with a death penalty sentence also saving the victims’ families from enduring the trial.

“A decision by the government not to seek the death penalty would bring immediate closure to the case without the need for the public and victims to repeatedly relive the terrible events of October 31,2017. We hope to convince the government of that view in our submissions,” lawyers for Saipov wrote in a letter to a Manhattan judge.
 
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