NEW YORK CITY POLICE OFFICIAL: UZBEK SUSPECT PLOTTED FATAL TERRORIST ATTACK FOR WEEKS

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Sayfullo Saipov (shown), a native of Uzbekistan, is the sole suspect
in a terrorist attack in New York that killed eight people and injured
12 others on October 31. All these casualties resulted from the driver —
allegedly Saipov — intentionally driving a truck onto a bike path
running along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.
The slaughter came to an end only when Saipov crashed the pickup
truck rented from Home Depot into a school bus, then stepped outside of
the vehicle brandishing a paintball gun and a pellet gun, according to
police. The location where the truck came to a stop was just four blocks
north of the World Trade Center site.
Saipov was shot in the abdomen by a police officer and was transported to a hospital for treatment.

One official told ABC News that the suspect seemed “proud” of the attack.
In a meeting with reporters before a November 1 cabinet meeting,
President Trump said he would consider sending Saipov to the detention
center at Guantanamo Bay.
Reports from Good Morning America and the Washington Post cited a statement from a police official that Saipov had apparently been planning the attack for weeks.
“He did this in the name of ISIS, and along with the other items
recovered at the scene [were] some notes that further indicate that,”
the reports said, quoting John Miller, deputy commissioner of
intelligence and counterterrorism of the NYPD. “He appears to have
followed almost exactly to a ‘T’ the instructions that ISIS has put out
in its social media channels before … to their followers on how to
carry out such an attack.”
The Post cited Miller’s statement that Saipov had never been
the subject of an FBI investigation or a New York police intelligence
investigation.
However, according to an unnamed law enforcement official familiar
with the current investigation, Saipov’s name had surfaced during an
earlier Homeland Security probe into some of his friends.
Fox News reported that investigators have uncovered several pieces of
evidence linking Saipov to ISIS. Fox News also cited Miller as saying
that Saipov, who came to the United States in March 2010 through the
Diversity Visa Program, had been planning the assault for “a number of
weeks.” The alleged terrorist toured the bike path area and afterwards
pursued his rampage “in the name of ISIS.” Miller also cited the notes
left in the truck, which contained a pledge of allegiance to ISIS. The
notes were handwritten and had symbols and Arabic words on them stating
that the “Islamic State would endure forever.”
Shortly after the attack, President Trump called on Congress to
immediately dismantle the State Department’s Diversity Visa Lottery
program.
“Diversity lottery — sounds nice. It’s not nice,” Trump told
reporters at the White House during a meeting with his Cabinet. “It’s
not good. It’s not good. It hasn’t been good. We’ve been against it.”
The president added, “I am today starting the process of terminating
the diversity lottery program. I am going to ask Congress to immediately
initiate work to get rid of this program.”
Continuing, Trump said that terrorists are “constantly seeking to
strike our nation,” and that keeping the nation safe will require the
“unflinching devotion to our law enforcement, homeland security and
intelligence professionals.”
“We have to get much tougher,” Trump said. “That was a horrible event
and we have to stop it and we have to stop it cold. We also have to
come up with a punishment that is far quicker and far greater than the
punishment these animals are getting right now.”
The president added that Saipov was the “point of contact for 23 people” that entered the United States.
“My administration is coordinating closely between federal and local
officials to investigate the attack and to further investigate this
animal who did the attacking,” Trump said.
Authorities are sure to look at whether the suspect visited
Uzbekistan since he moved to the United States seven years ago, CNN
terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said, citing a November 1 report from
the news network. “There has been a significant problem with jihadism
in Uzbekistan,” he stated.
Cruickshank said there are two large jihadi groups in the central
Asian country. One of them is the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which
is affiliated with ISIS.
Following the October 31 attack, the Australian-based Imam Mohammad
Tawhidi tweeted that he had repeatedly warned New York Mayor Bill De
Blasio about the terror threat in New York City, but that he was
ignored. Tawhidi accused De Blasio of being more interested in
undermining President Trump than in addressing the danger of terrorism.
In one tweet, Tawhidi stated: “About #NYC terrorist attack, I
personally sent letters to Mayor De Blasio online & in person about
terrorist breeding in NYC. He did nothing.”
“Not only am I a Muslim Imam who understands the threat of Islamic
Extremism, I also hold a certificate in counter-terrorism. Now what!?”
asked Tawhidi in another tweet.
Tawhidi is a Shiite Muslim of Iraqi origin. He has been the president
of the Islamic Association of South Australia since its establishment
in 2016.

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 Not that this has anything to do with Islam, right, Mr. Miller? New York Deputy Police 

Commissioner John Miller says, “This isn’t about Islam, this isn’t about the mosque he 

attends.” He is ignoring the reality in front of his face, and depriving himself of the
ability to understand Saipov’s motives and goals.

“Feds reveal what they found in NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov’s truck,” by Stefan Becket, CBS News, November 2, 2017:

NEW YORK — The suspect charged in
Tuesday’s terrorist attack in lower Manhattan had two cell phones with
90 videos of propaganda about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and 3,800 images related to the terrorist group, prosecutors said.
In an affidavit
filed in federal court on Wednesday, FBI agent Amber Tyree revealed
what investigators discovered in the rental truck used to mow down 20
people along a bike lane in lower Manhattan, killing eight of them and seriously injuring 12.
Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old native of Uzbekistan, was charged
with providing material support to a terrorist organization and using a
vehicle to cause violence. Investigators say Saipov was inspired by ISIS
to carry out the attack, the deadliest in New York since 9/11. The use
of a truck to run over civilians closely mirrors similar attacks that
have plagued Europe. ISIS has posted instructions and urged its
followers to carry out such an attack on its propaganda channels online.
Saipov is said to have rented a pickup truck from a Home Depot in New
Jersey before driving into Manhattan to carry out the attack. He
traveled for nearly a mile down a bike lane next to the West Side
Highway, coming to a stop only after he slammed into a schoolbus. He
then exited the vehicle carrying a black bag, a pellet gun and a
paintball gun, yelling “God is great” in Arabic. Saipov was soon shot by a police officer and taken into custody.

“Allahu akbar” does not mean “God is great.” It means “Allah is
greater,” i.e., greater than your god. It is a declaration of
superiority and supremacism.

Investigators detailed what they found in Saipov’s truck
after the attack. Inside the black bag, which Saipov dropped after being
shot, officers found three knives and a wallet containing a Florida
driver’s license in Saipov’s name.
Inside the truck itself, police found two cellphones and a stun gun on the floor by the driver’s side seat.
They also discovered a note about 10 feet from the truck with English
and Arabic writing, according to the affidavit. The Arabic writing said
“No God but God and Muhammed is his Prophet” and “Islamic Supplication.
It will endure,” the affidavit says, noting that the latter phrase is
“commonly used to refer to ISIS.”
The FBI obtained a search warrant to search the two cellphones found
inside the truck. The first phone was found to contain 90 videos of ISIS
propaganda. Saipov told investigators from his hospital bed that he was
inspired to carry out the attack after watching ISIS-related videos on
his cellphone, according to the affidavit.

The videos described in the affidavit included footage of ISIS
fighters running over a prisoner with a tank, a beheading video, and an
instructional video about making a homemade explosive. About 3,800
images were also found on the phone, including many with the logo of
ISIS’ propaganda arm and several of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group’s
leader….

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