Posted on 10/31/2017 6:12:14 PM PDT by 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.
#4. Who from MSNBC said that? Names are very important to know who the deceivers and incompetents are in the news media or as media sources.
GHWB signed the harebrained Ted Kennedy diversity lottery into law. No problem, he has the secret service to protect him.
GREAT QUESTION!
He waited for a school to be dismissed and strutted around with what certainly looked like real guns/weapons.
The cops shoot, but hit him in the leg.
WTF?
For all of the wailing about cops being trigger happy, this seems like they did the absolute wrong thing here.
What if the guns were real?
He should have been taken out the instant he exited the truck.
If you're going to shoot, you shoot to kill, not to simply "inconvenience" the killer.
Didn’t the 911 terrorists live in Florida?
I heard TSA is going to set up random checkpoints all over the nation to search vehicles so this wont happen again ]/sarc]
Letting hordes of homicidal savages into the country is a bad idea.
thus as the media organizations send up three cheers for islam ... do you know where those that wish death to you and your children are hiding???
I see what you did there.
And it is Chuck Schumer and all of the others that voted for this that should be lined up against the wall with this muslim freak and made to pay for these 8 deaths. Votes have consequences.
Surprised Ol Sheppie wasnt crying in outrage because the police shot the piece of sh*t sand flea.>>>>>>>>>>>>
They shot the jihadhi perp in the stomach, not his scrotum .
Tampa is a hotbed of this stuff;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Well, there soon will be an American jihad. The Alahwahoo Whackbar crowd can feel it coming.
Good one - doubling down.....
“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.”
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Could be a combination of Islam and mental illness. (yes I know, there’s not much difference between the two)
NYC Terrorist Came to US Under Diversity Visa Program Sponsored by NY Democrat Chuck Schumer
A good first and easy step to making the US safer would be to ban immigration from any country with a name that ends in “stan”.
I wonder if police have any clue on the motive. [Yes, I read the headline.]
And, Martha McCallum, on Faux Snooze, kept claiming that it was “home grown” terrorism, when it had been reported on the show prior to hers, that the guy was from Uzbekistan! I nearly threw something at the TV!
Thanks for posting. President Trump called Schmucky out this morning in one of his tweets.
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Will he be attending the funeral? There’ll be cameraaaas...
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