Convicted New York City truck attack terrorist Sayfullo Saipov will not face the death penalty after a New York federal jury on Monday failed to reach a unanimous verdict on the death sentence.
Jurors deliberated for about seven hours over two days before finding Sayfullo Saipov guilty in a Halloween attack inspired by his reverence for the Islamic State militant group.
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror suspect — who came to the United States on the “Diversity Visa Lottery” — accused of murdering eight people in New York City, said in court he is “following orders of Allah.”
Court filings by defense lawyers for Sayfullo Saipov, the man who used a rented truck to kill eight people on a Manhattan bike path on Halloween 2017, indicate the perpetrator was known to the F.B.I. and was caught on a wiretap the day before he carried out his deadly attack.
Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had to apologize to the loved ones of victims killed in a terror attack near New York City’s Tribeca neighborhood in 2017 because he forgot to pay homage to the victims of the attack.
A foreign national accused of killing eight people with a truck in Manhattan spoke out in federal court Friday to defend his allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS).
Contents: Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev promises to end atrocities of previous leader Islam Karimov; Rise of Islamic radicalism and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU); Who’s going to pick the cotton in Uzbekistan?
NEW YORK — H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, has once again minimized the religious motivations of terrorist groups, this time referring to the ideology of Mideast jihadists as “irreligious.”
Uzbekistan is one of the top two countries that has produced most of the jihadists currently fighting and killing U.S. troops and their allies in Afghanistan on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in the region, according to Pentagon and Afghan officials.
(New York) H.R. McMaster, President Trump’s embattled national security adviser, referred to the Islamic terrorist suspect in Tuesdays deadly jihadist attack in Lower Manhattan as among a grouping of “mass murderers.”
Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, a friend of New York City truck jihadi Sayfullo Saipov, was named as a person of interest in the case by the FBI on Wednesday and quickly located, without an arrest or any charges being filed. On Thursday he issued a statement to the Associated Press condemning Saipov’s attack.
An Islamic State publication has referred to Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbek jihadi arrested for the deaths of eight people in Manhattan this week, as a “caliphate soldier” and praised him for driving a pickup truck through a bicycle lane in an attempt to kill as many people as possible.
Sayfullo Saipov’s neighbors and acquaintances have been coming forward to paint a portrait of the suspected New York City terrorist.
Retired CIA station chief Scott Uehlinger, host of “The Station Chief” podcast, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the New York City truck terror attack, which Marlow noted has put Central Asia on many Americans’ threat radar for the first time.
The terrorist who killed eight people in New York City had attended for years New Jersey’s Masjid Omar Mosque, which the NYPD has suspected of being a terrorist organization for over 10 years, allegedly keeping all its worshippers under watch, an effort that proved to be futile to prevent the atrocities.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan has offered the United States “all forces and resources” necessary to properly investigate the case of Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old arrested after allegedly barreling through a Manhattan bicycle lane, killing eight, and reportedly telling authorities he killed in the name of the Islamic State.
The Chinese government-run Global Times newspaper responded to the jihadist attack in Manhattan this week by declaring that China’s military belligerence is not a threat to America, instead claiming that the threat comes from America’s “haphazard and scattershot” democracy, which has led to a state of “domestic chaos.”
Sayfullo Saipov, detained after allegedly driving a pick-up truck through a Manhattan bicycle lane on Tuesday and killing eight, demanded an Islamic State (ISIS) flag to display in his hospital room, according to a criminal complaint released on Wednesday.
NEW YORK — Col. Michael Bumgarner, formerly the commander of the guard force at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, urged President Donald Trump to “immediately, within the next 24 hours” declare New York City terror attack suspect Sayfullo Saipov an enemy combatant and send Saipov to the U.S. military prison at Gitmo.
Wednesday on “CNN Newsroom,” CNN legal analyst Paul Callan weighed in on President Donald Trump’s “really shocking” comments regarding the suspected New York terrorist. Following the attack, Trump referred to the suspected terrorist, Sayfullo Saipov, as an “animal” deserving of the death
President Donald Trump warned that “chain migration” continued to be a problem, pointing out that the suspected New York City terrorist was the “primary point of contact” for 23 additional people trying to enter the United States.
President Donald Trump said that the terrorist who killed eight people in New York City and injured 12 should get the death penalty as punishment.
In a Wednesday evening press conference, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim announced charges filed against Sayfullo Saipov for the Islamic terror attack carried out on Tuesday evening in New York that killed eight people.
Acquaintances of New York City truck terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov expressed surprise and dismay at Uzbekistan-born Saipov’s alleged responsibility for Tuesday’s deadly truck attack. One, however, noted Saipov had “displayed ‘very radical views.'”
Going forward, our most urgent task as a country is to figure out how to defeat Islamophobia. I plan to spend the rest of the week shaming Islamophobes on Twitter and Facebook.
President of Argentina Mauricio Macri told reporters Wednesday that “there is no room for any gray” in the fight against terrorism, responding to the deaths of five Argentines in an act of jihad in New York City on Tuesday.
A young NYPD officer successfully shot and detained terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov before he could kill any more people in last night’s attack, the New York Daily News first reported.
The UK Independent suggests the NYC vehicular terror attack highlights the need to consider stricter gun control in the United States.
The New York City terror attack ended when terrorist Sayfullo Saipov was shot by a good guy with a gun, NYPD officer Ryan Nash.
The man who police say transformed a New York City bike path into a terror scene was an Uzbekistan native who made 1,400 trips as an Uber driver and formed two commercial truck businesses.
President Donald Trump signaled on Twitter that he was prepared to crack down on immigration visa programs in the wake of the terrorist attack in New York City.
