Suspect Claimed He Committed NYC Truck Attack for ISIS: Sources

4 New York ^ | 10/31/17 | Jonathan Dienst, Brian Thompson and R. Darren Price

[Simon Green]

The 29-year-old man detained after a flatbed truck drove down a popular lower Manhattan bike path, killing at least 8 people and injuring more than a dozen more, left a note in the truck claiming he committed the attack for ISIS, according to law enforcement sources.

Authorities said the man, identified by sources as Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, is thought to be a "lone actor" in the attack in the Hudson River Greenway on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said he shouted "Allahu Akbar" at some point as he sped down the bike path and apparently deliberately rammed into a school bus for children with disabilities.

The Uzbek national living in New Jersey got out of that truck afterward and was seen running through traffic on West Street with a BB gun and a paintball gun before being shot in the abdomen by police and taken into custody. He's being treated at Bellevue Hospital, where he remains in custody.

Sources said Saipov lives in Paterson, New Jersey, but he had a Florida license with a Tampa address on him when he was arrested. Police and federal agents were seen swarming the neighborhood street where he was thought to live on Tuesday evening.

Residents in the area said that Saipov had a wife and two young children.

Kobiljon Matkarov, a Facebook friend of Saipov's, told NBC News that the two met while they were both living in Florida. He said his friend was working as a truck and Uber driver.

"He was very happy guy," said Matkarov, who is also from Uzbekistan. "he liked the US. he is no terrorist. He's all the time happy, smiling all the time."

U.S. intelligence officials said they had no knowledge of any terror groups claiming responsibility for the violence. Gov. Cuomo said that Saipov is thought to have acted alone in the attack.

Saipov also pleaded guilty to two traffic offenses in Pennsylvania between 2012 and 2015, according to records from the Keystone State. He was also arrested for at least one traffic incident in Missouri, though details of that arrest weren't immediately available. But there was no other information on whether the man had any other criminal record.

[Eleutheria5]

And then wait patiently while the 9th Circus does all it can to nullify it.

[datricker]

How about instead of a like button we have a right! Button?

[mandaladon]

Chuck Schumer’s response to this is just like all liberals,”We are a nation of immigrants...”. With all due respect, a nation of immigrants is not the same as a nation of garbage dumping ground. This stupid diversity Visa program is just another form of opened border policy from liberals.

[Windflier]

Missouri, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York...

Guy sure moved around a lot for an immigrant.

[Windflier]

Time to round em up (and Justice knows the cells) and put them in Gitmo.

Gitmo is probably way too small to hold them all. Send the very worst of the lot there, and forcibly repatriate ALL the rest to their countries of origin.

It's time that western nations woke up to the fact that Islam is plan for global conquest posing as a religion.

[KingofZion]

why are we allowing these animals to remain in the country? maybe some of the circuit courts will get it now. we need to freeze the visas so that government can properly vet people who are already here.

too bad the NYPD did not take a head shot at this guy. now we have to pay for his upkeep and an expensive trial.

[NFHale]

As I said - ANYONE who aided and abetted bringing these 7th century savages into our Country needs to be held accountable.

DOn’t care if it has an (R) or a (D [AKA CPUSA]) after it’s name.

[NFHale]

:^)

[aspasia]

Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe

Bach is one of the most penitent of human composers who seeks mercy and redemption. Wagner, on the other hand . . .

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I agree! Sometimes the Rs are worse.

[politicianslie]

Somewhere in these “peaceful dens” is at least one other scourge of America.All we have to do is roll him.

EVERY MUSLIM IS COMMANDED TO KILL INFIDELS. Some do, some don't but they are all taught in their HOLY KORAN to kill those who are not Muslim.

We cannot have peace until all of these barbarians are removed from the west. Parents are "passive?" Doesn't matter, they will raise some who will follow the KORAN.

President Trump gets it but can't say it until more innocent people are killed. ALL MUSLIMS must be removed from the west AND Islam must be declared an illegal, terrorist cult. It is NOT a religion, it is a war plan.

[politicianslie]

so that government can properly vet people who are already here.

Islam is a terrorist cult that commands it's followers to kill infidels everywhere they find them. How do you vet people who are commanded to kill you?

The simple answer is you cannot. If the parents are passive, they will likely raise children who are taught that infidels must be killed. Therefore, ALL MUSLIMS must be removed from the west.

All careful vetting will do is make them lie, which is what their HOLY KORAN commands them to do. See #13

IF you can read and understand, you can know their plans. OR you can decide that they don't really mean it.

[jersey117]

Makes you wonder if Mandolay Bay wasn’t ISIS. Why dismiss it? He wouldn’t be the first white guy to convert. Sometimes your first gut instinct is the right one.

[politicianslie]

Guy sure moved around a lot for an immigrant.

If you start watching George Webb, you will START to see some pieces coming together, including WHY this clown moved around so much.

This is COMPLICATED. George makes many updates daily. IT is NOT simple and it is not AT FIRST believable. File it away and wait.

Watch George expose the Demonrats, believe it or not.

GEORGE WEBB AND CAR THEFT WING GOES TO PAKISTAN AND TIES IN DEMONRAT IT SCANDAL

[antidisestablishment]

Hated to hear the perp once lived in Tampa. I guarantee that had he pulled this stunt here, we wouldn’t be talking about where the trial would occur. The Tampa police and Hillsborough Sheriff departments are well-armed and keep in practice. Damned shame the NYPD left this Muslim pig alive.

[politicianslie]

Makes you wonder if Mandolay Bay wasn’t ISIS. Why dismiss it?

I saw reports that first responders that were in the Madolay Bay sniper's room saw ISIS and other radical literature. NOTHING SINCE.

It is possible we are being lied to. ANS = YES

What would be the motive?

The answer to that is the DEMONRATS have a fundamental part of their efforts to "fundamentally" change the country. Major effort is to let in LARGE NUMBERS OF IMMIDGRANTS.

Large numbers of immigrants definitely fundamentally change the country. If you have to ask why Hussein Obama wanted to flood Muslims into the west, you are NOT paying attention!

[Morpheus2009]

Should have had a full magazine emptied into him. Two for good measure