October 31, 2017
By Tom Winter, Corky Siemaszko and Phil Helsel
Eight people were killed and a dozen more were injured (click here) Tuesday when a motorist in a rented pickup truck deliberately drove down a bike path in lower Manhattan and mowed down several people before crashing into a school bus. Officials said it was a terrorist attack.
The gunman hopped out of the truck and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before firing a BB or pellet gun, four senior law enforcement sources told NBC News.
A police officer on patrol in the area returned fire, hitting the suspect in the abdomen and ending the Halloween horror less than a mile from the World Trade Center....
The guns used are rather bizarre, aren't they? Did the guns cause injury or death? It doesn't diminish the deaths and injuries, but, I find this odd. I can't but wonder if he has mental health issues and could not purchase different guns.
"Home Depot?" He stole the truck. Does he have a driver's license?
He drove a distance, the Orlando killer in the Pulse nightclub had driven a distance, too? Not as far as this guy. New York City is a high profile city. Anyone in the world knows New York City with a large population.
How long has he been in the country? Family? Uzbecks that are Muslim are extremists, to begin with, at least that is how they are characterized. How connected is he with his homeland?
7 January 2017
By Mansur Mirovalev
Thousands of Muslims in Uzbekistan (click here) have been imprisoned for alleged "religious extremism" as part of a government crackdown on peaceful Muslims who practise their faith outside government-approved mosques, according to a rights group.
At least 12,800 people - including human rights defenders, independent journalists, and activists - have been jailed since 2002, the Initiative Group of Independent Human Rights Defenders said in an annual report released on Thursday.
At least 300 Muslims have been arrested and convicted in 2015 alone, it said....
I think the United Nations and advocating for the folks back home would have worked better.
Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, a 29-year-old man
Actually, he might have known what he was doing, but, his timing was off. If he was there now, there would have been far more casualties. He was a NYC truck driver. He knew the streets. He has only been in the country eight years. I think he did expect to be shot to death. He couldn't get guns in NYC.
He wanted to kill kids. Halloween parade is somewhere he would find children. The killer came to the USA in 2010 when things in Uzbekistan was not great for Muslims. The annual report below is a USA government publication.
He would have been seven to eight years younger. That would make him 21 to 22 years old. He may have relatives in the homeland.
So, he is a charismatic member of Daesh. Daesh is a cult. The basis of his religion is wrong. He would never receive the promised rewards after his death.
I think the taxi and truck drivers of New York City should report weakness in the infrastructure. The city government can't survey everything. Even though prevention, in this case, seems obvious now, it wasn't before. I think there should be an "Infrastructure to Prevent Harm to Citizens from Radicals" website or meetings or some kind of method to be taken seriously with citizen insight.
Local insight should be valued with plans to improve perceived danger. We walk through life thinking about these things, but, frequently dismiss them as silly paranoid thinking. But, I think it is mentally healthy to be cautious in the world we live in. I also think reporting concerns is healthy and empowering. Today could have been prevented, it wasn't.
International Religious Freedom (2010): Annual Report to Congress (click here)
The First Lady is in New York City? I am sure she has a good reason to be at her NYC home. I thought with all the bad news from the FBI, she might be in DC.
