New York attack suspect charged with providing support to Islamic State

By Gina Cherelus and Barbara Goldberg

 

Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in the New York City truck attack is seen in this handout photo released November 1, 2017. St. Charles County Department of Corrections/Handout via REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - An Uzbek immigrant suspected of killing eight people in New York City by ploughing a truck into cyclists and pedestrians on a bike path was charged in federal court on Wednesday with acting on behalf of the militant group Islamic State.

 

The suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, who was hospitalised after a police officer shot and arrested him, ending Tuesday's rampage, confessed to authorities while in custody that he began planning the attack a year ago, according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

 

The 10-page complaint said Saipov waived his rights to remain silent and avoid self-incrimination in agreeing to speak to investigators without an attorney present from his Bellvue Hospital Center bed in Manhattan.

 

In the course of that interview, the complaint said, Saipov told investigators he was inspired by Islamic State videos he had watched on his cellphone, chose Halloween for the attack because he believed more people would be on the streets, and had originally planned to strike the Brooklyn Bridge as well as the bike path.

 

The complaint also said Saipov had requested permission to display Islamic State's flag in his hospital room and said he felt good about what he had done.

 

Meanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation posted an online wanted poster of a second Uzbekistan-born man, named Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, 32, who was described as being sought for questioning in connection with the attack along the Hudson River in lower Manhattan.

 

Saipov was charged with one count of providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation, designated in the complaint as Islamic State, and one count of violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

 

New York City police earlier in the day said that Saipov had carried out the attack according to instructions he found posted online by Islamic State, on whose behalf he claimed to have acted.

 

Police also said Saipov had left behind a note extolling Islamic State, also known as ISIS.

 

"The gist of the note was that the Islamic State would endure forever," New York Deputy Police Commissioner John Miller told a news conference. "He appears to have followed almost exactly the instructions that ISIS has put out on its social media channels to its followers."

 

The attack was the deadliest in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001, when suicide hijackers crashed two jetliners into the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,600 people.

 

Tuesday's attack injured 12 people, some critically, in addition to those killed.

 

Similar assaults using vehicles as weapons took place in Spain in August and in France and Germany last year.

 

Where the New York truck attack took place:

 

Fatal vehicle attacks since Nice: http://tmsnrt.rs/2h34g4j 

 

(Additional reporting by Jonathan Allen and Melissa Fares in New York, Joseph Ax in Patterson, New Jersey, and Mark Hosenball and Tim Ahmann in Washington; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Leslie Adler and Andrew Hay)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-11-02

 

Time to let the familys of the victims drag him through the streets of newyork.

He will die in prison, hope he feels good about that as well

17 minutes ago, Orton Rd said:

He will die in prison, hope he feels good about that as well

I will pay for his prison time, and I don't feel good about that.

Anyone looking like that with a dirty scruffy beard should have been in jail in the first place  

Who out there believes in "face reading" ? I do, and this guy looks like a total bag of fecal matter, hopefully never to see the light of day again. Wrap him in a pigskin and blow his pathetically small brains away !

1 hour ago, klauskunkel said:

I will pay for his prison time, and I don't feel good about that.

No, off course not! In your point of view it must be much better to let him out on the streets again. Why not give the man a car too. You realize how stupid that sounded?

I guess it´s the beard that makes theese people bad. They always seems to have that. Time to ban beard. 

Shouldn't he should be charged with murder as well?

No, off course not! In your point of view it must be much better to let him out on the streets again. Why not give the man a car too. You realize how stupid that sounded?

I guess it´s the beard that makes theese people bad. They always seems to have that. Time to ban beard. 

Time to ban beard ? Hoy-hoy, hoy-hoy...




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12 minutes ago, Thorgal said:

 

Time to ban beard ? Hoy-hoy, hoy-hoy...




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Now it´s a fact. Santa is a terrorist.

1 hour ago, Get Real said:

No, off course not! In your point of view it must be much better to let him out on the streets again. Why not give the man a car too. You realize how stupid that sounded?

I guess it´s the beard that makes theese people bad. They always seems to have that. Time to ban beard. 

it seems a beard of any sort is a sign of manhood to a lot of Muslims

9 minutes ago, johnarth said:

it seems a beard of any sort is a sign of manhood to a lot of Muslims

Have a look nowadays LOL  

19 minutes ago, Tchooptip said:

Have a look nowadays LOL  

The terrorist in NYC looks like none of your models. Not even one of them! 

Even the second one.

3 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

I will pay for his prison time, and I don't feel good about that.

send him to texas; after lethal injection, no jail time

3 hours ago, canopus1969 said:

Anyone looking like that with a dirty scruffy beard should have been in jail in the first place  

 

Time to get serious and call in the fashion police.

 

2 hours ago, phantomfiddler said:

Who out there believes in "face reading" ? I do, and this guy looks like a total bag of fecal matter, hopefully never to see the light of day again. Wrap him in a pigskin and blow his pathetically small brains away !

Who out there believes in Rorschach tests? I do and apparently you do too. But I believe in what they demonstrate and you believe in what you see.

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6 hours ago, webfact said:

Saipov was charged with one count of providing material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organisation, designated in the complaint as Islamic State, and one count of violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

Why hasn't he been charged with multiple murder, attempted murder & bodily harm?

4 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

I will pay for his prison time, and I don't feel good about that.

 

3 hours ago, Get Real said:

No, off course not! In your point of view it must be much better to let him out on the streets again. Why not give the man a car too. You realize how stupid that sounded?

I guess it´s the beard that makes theese people bad. They always seems to have that. Time to ban beard. 

You do not know my point of view. Do not post your ideas as if they come from me. Understand?!

28 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

 

You do not know my point of view. Do not post your ideas as if they come from me. Understand?!

Yes, Sir! Krap Phom!
I will then turn it into a question. You do not feel good about paying for his prison time, obviously because you are speaking about the taxpayers money. Do you have another better idea? 
Now I mean one that would be human and legal, because I sincerely hope that you do not want to put yourself down on this little creeps level.

5 minutes ago, Get Real said:

Yes, Sir! Krap Phom!
I will then turn it into a question. You do not feel good about paying for his prison time, obviously because you are speaking about the taxpayers money. Do you have another better idea? 
Now I mean one that would be human and legal, because I sincerely hope that you do not want to put yourself down on this little creeps level.

You are ignored

2 hours ago, johnarth said:

it seems a beard of any sort is a sign of manhood to a lot of Muslims

Yeah, I don´t know. Maybe it´s as simple as they believe that they look like scared little boys up to no good without it. Again, what do it know.

3 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

You are ignored

Ok. I just take that as I ask a far too complicated question. I sincerely appologize, and hope that you can accept. 

2 hours ago, alex8912 said:

The terrorist in NYC looks like none of your models. Not even one of them! 

Even the second one.

It was an answer to: "it seems a beard of any sort is a sign of manhood to a lot of Muslims" nothing more, by the way, it was not a serious one.

 

4 hours ago, johnarth said:

it seems a beard of any sort is a sign of manhood to a lot of Muslims

And for a lot of hillbillies too