Terrorist attack in America on October 1. New details in the investigation of the terrorist attack in the United States, which killed eight people
On August 17, there was a terrorist attack in Barcelona. The van drove into a crowd of tourists in the Rambla pedestrian street, after which the terrorists started a shootout in the market. According to official data, 14 people were killed and 130 were injured.
Immediately after the attack, two suspects were detained. The driver of the car that ran over people on La Rambla fled.
The second attack took place on August 18 in the port of Cambrils, located near Barcelona. The attackers knocked down pedestrians and then started shooting with the police.
As a result, seven people were injured, including one policeman. Four attackers were killed on the spot. One was injured and was detained, but died from his injuries.
As it turned out, the attackers involved in two terrorist attacks in Catalonia were planning another attack. The police uncovered a group of eight people. The group members planned to explode gas cylinders.
The terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
On August 18, a massacre occurred in the Finnish city of Turku, during which two people were killed and eight were injured. varying degrees gravity.
At about 16:00 local time, an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen committed a massacre in the central Trade Square, during which about ten people were injured.
During the police operation to arrest the attacker, the man was shot in the leg and taken to the University Hospital of Turku. On August 23, the suspect was transferred to the prison hospital in Hämeenlinna. After undergoing treatment, he was transferred to Turku Prison, where he will remain in custody until charges are brought (approx. until February 28, 2018).
Wanted car Fiat Ducato was found that same day in the evening, after which the police searched the house of the owner of the car, and also searched the refugee reception center in Pansio. One of the suspects has been put on the international wanted list.
The media noted that this terrorist attack is Finland's first encounter with an attack by Islamic extremists.
On October 14, 2017, two car bombs exploded in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The explosion killed 358 people, and several hundred more people were seriously injured.
First, a truck with explosives flew into the air. It exploded in front of the capital's Safari Hotel, which is located in the Khodansky district. The building was completely destroyed.
A second attack occurred on the same day: another bomb exploded in the government district of Madina. Two people died. Somali authorities blamed the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab radical group, which is waging an armed struggle against the central government and has carried out dozens of terrorist attacks in the country, for organizing the explosions. But no group claims responsibility for the attacks.
The terrorist attack was the largest in the last ten years in Africa.
On October 31, 2017, around 3:05 p.m. local time, a terrorist attack occurred in New York. A 29-year-old native of Uzbekistan, Saifullo Saipov, drove a pickup truck at high speed onto a bike path in Lower Manhattan and began to crush people.
The tape, citing MSNBC, reports that the terrorist attack killed eight people and injured 15 more. A car driver drove his vehicle toward people in a bike path, crashed into a school bus, and then opened fire on people.
The collision took place near the One World Trade Center skyscraper. It was built near the site of the Twin Towers, destroyed as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Eyewitnesses of the incident claim that during the shooting the man shouted “Allahu Akbar!” The suspect was wounded by police, detained and is in hospital.
Saifulla Khabibullaevich Saipov immigrated to the United States in 2010 from Tashkent. According to social networks, before coming to the United States, he lived in Osh in Kyrgyzstan and Vologda. He came to America by winning the green card lottery.
For the last few months before the terrorist attack, Saipov lived in Paterson, New Jersey, and worked as a driver for Uber. The company said that there had never been any complaints against him.
In the United States, Saipov was never prosecuted and had only four fines for violating traffic rules.
In 2015, Saipov was questioned by Department of Homeland Security agents because he was found to be involved with two people under counterterrorism surveillance.
In southeast Texas in the United States, a mass shooting occurred at a Baptist church, ABC News reports, citing law enforcement sources. At least 26 people were killed. The same number were injured.
At First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a gunman entered the church during Sunday service and began shooting at parishioners. He tried to escape in a car and was shot by police. According to Reuters, children were among those killed.
According to an eyewitness - a woman who works at a gas station - shots were heard for at least 15 seconds.
New York on Tuesday became the scene of the largest terrorist attack on the metropolis in a decade and a half. According to law enforcement officials, 8 people were killed under the wheels of the lone performer’s pickup truck, and another 13 were injured of varying degrees of severity.
Strike Manhattan
This is on Tuesday around 15.05 local time. A pickup truck driven by an attacker drove at high speed onto a two-lane path for pedestrians and cyclists, running parallel to the highway along the western shore of the peninsula. This area of Manhattan is adjacent to a small park on the Hudson River waterfront. There are many cafes and restaurants around, many passers-by walk along the path at any time of the day, and it is actively used by runners and cyclists. This convenient way ride a bicycle along the metropolis, bypassing congested city streets. Nearby tourist attractions include a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack and a pier for ships going on excursions to the Statue of Liberty. There are also several schools here.
According to NYPD spokesman James O'Neill, the pickup truck was heading south when it suddenly veered into the driveway. The first to fall under its wheels were two cyclists, who, according to eyewitnesses, were thrown several meters by the strong impact. Destroying everything in its path and leaving a terrible trail of wounded and dead, the pickup truck flew several hundred meters and then crashed into a school bus at an intersection. Six victims died on the spot, two more died from their injuries in the hospital. On the bus, two adults and two children were injured.
Later, law enforcement agencies of the metropolis established that the driver of the pickup truck was a native of Central Asia.
The terrorist attack in New York was the deadliest since the attacks on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Jumping out of the car with a weapon in both hands, he shouted “Allahu Akbar.” Police later found an air pistol and a paintball weapon at the scene of the incident. Saipov ran towards a group of children from a nearby school and pointed his weapon at them, according to ABC News, citing eyewitnesses. The American media published several photographs of the attacker, in which he runs along the sidewalk and walks between cars on the roadway with a weapon in his hands. The police who arrived at the scene of the incident opened fire and neutralized the attacker with a wound to the stomach. Witnesses report approximately 9-10 shots, but there is no exact information about whether the driver fired at law enforcement officers or passers-by. Saipov was hospitalized and operated on; investigators are working with him.
Terror connection
The attacker used a rented pickup truck to attack. A note in English was found in the car, which stated that the attack was carried out on behalf of the terrorist group Daesh (banned in the Russian Federation - RG), although the militants themselves have not yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Investigators also indicate that the attack scenario - using a car as a battering ram against pedestrians - is similar to the handwriting recent terrorist attacks committed by Daesh followers in Europe. Based on this data, the US Department of Homeland Security classifies the incident as terrorism. According to the main version, Saipov acted alone.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there was "no indication of a broader threat." Nevertheless, in the evening the streets of the city, along which the traditional annual parade dedicated to Halloween took place, were patrolled by reinforced police.
How did the US authorities react?
It became the largest number of victims since the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. In addition, this is the largest attack of its kind in the United States on behalf of Daesh under President Donald Trump, who declared the fight against the group his No. 1 priority and promised to secure American soil from such attacks.
Trump responded to the attack on Twitter, calling its perpetrator a “sick and crazy man,” and then expressed condolences to the victims and their loved ones. The President used the situation to support his initiatives to tighten migration controls. Let us remember that during the election campaign, in order to combat terrorism, he voiced the idea of banning all Muslims from entering the United States and compiling a database of followers of Islam already living in the country. After his inauguration, he twice signed executive orders tightening entry into the United States for citizens of a number of Muslim-majority states, insisting that terrorists could sneak across the border under the guise of refugees. But, to Trump's outrage, both documents were partially blocked by the judicial branch of government.
His critics believe that these measures will be ineffective, since the perpetrators of attacks on behalf of Daesh are often those who have lived in the United States for a long time and have been radicalized via the Internet already in the country. In addition, the president was accused of discrimination on religious grounds.
But the head of state stands his ground. He said he had ordered stricter rules for processing applications to enter the United States, adding: "Being politically correct is good, but not in this case." "We must not allow Daesh to return or enter our country after their defeat in the Middle East and anywhere else. Enough!" - he wrote in another tweet, likely implying further restrictions on entry into the United States for refugees from the conflict-ridden Middle East region.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called it an "insidious act of terrorism."
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What is known about the perpetrator of the terrorist attack?
As ABC News reports, citing law enforcement agencies, Saipov moved to the United States in 2010, having received a visa under a special diversification program (English: Diversity Visa Lottery), which has been in force since 1995. Within its framework, about 55 thousand visas are issued per year, primarily for citizens of those countries from which the flow of emigration to the United States is small. He lived in Cincinnati (Ohio), Tampa (Florida), and Lately together with his wife and three children - in Paterson (New Jersey) near New York. During this time, I received a so-called green card - the right to permanent residence and work in the USA.
He worked mostly as a driver, had a license to drive trucks, and also worked part-time for the online taxi service Uber. The publication Business Insider, citing a comment from Uber, reports that Saipov for 6 months, after which the company ceased cooperation with him for unknown reasons. Upon registration, he passed a standard check, as a result of which it was discovered that he had no criminal convictions for serious crimes.
According to the New York Times, Saipov had previously come to the attention of US federal authorities, but as an acquaintance or relative of one of the defendants in a case unrelated to the terrorist attack in New York. The police searched his house. Neighbors described it positively, but complained that the incident damaged the reputation of the local Muslim diaspora.
High-profile case
Terrorists are targeting Europe
In France, the regime has been lifted since November 1 state of emergency. The President of the Fifth Republic, Emmanuel Macron, announced this in Strasbourg. The regime was activated in November 2015 after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris in which 130 people were killed and 350 were injured at the hands of Islamist militants. Since then it has been extended six times. Over the past two years, according to French Interior Minister Gerard Colon, law enforcement agencies managed to prevent 32 terrorist attacks, of which 13 this year. About a thousand arrests of persons suspected of terrorist activities were made, and 625 weapons, including military-style ones, including grenade launchers, were seized.
Nevertheless, the French authorities failed to completely eliminate the terrorist threat, as evidenced by the tragedy in Nice, where on July 14 last year, 86 people died under the wheels of a multi-ton truck driven by a terrorist.
Simultaneously with the end of the state of emergency in France, a new law on internal security and the fight against terrorism came into force, into which a number of provisions of the state of emergency were transferred, with some adjustments. In particular, we're talking about on restricting the place of residence and movement of radicals who have come to the attention of the intelligence services, the use of electronic bracelets, and expanded capabilities of electronic surveillance. In addition, prefects received the right, at their discretion, to close places of religious worship where, as stated in the law, “propaganda of hatred and violence” is carried out.
In Britain, police detained two 14-year-old teenagers who are suspected of preparing a terrorist attack. The arrest took place in Northallerton, the administrative center of North Yorkshire. The teenagers are currently in police custody. Police have already carried out several searches in Northallerton. Law enforcement officers believe that this is an isolated incident and residents of other areas of the county are not in danger. Details of the investigation have not yet been disclosed. There have been five terrorist attacks in Britain since March 2017. Of these, four are in London and one in Manchester. Dozens of people became victims of terrorist attacks. In mid-September, after the terrorist attack on the London Underground, Prime Minister Theresa May raised the level of the terrorist threat in the country from “serious” to “critical.”
In Germany, the Prosecutor General's Office spoke about a foiled terrorist attack that was being prepared by 19-year-old Syrian Yamen A. He was arrested during a large-scale police operation in the city of Schwerin: the searches took place in an inconspicuous manner panel house, which, according to Spiegel Online, is inhabited by refugees. Yamen A. himself arrived in the country in the fall of 2015 - precisely as an asylum seeker and soon received a temporary residence permit from the German authorities. At first he did not arouse suspicion. German law enforcement agencies became interested in the foreigner after he began searching for and ordering explosives and parts for assembling a homemade bomb on the Internet. “The available data allows us to seriously suspect Yamen A. that he was planning to commit a terrorist attack, guided by Islamist motives, and had already begun preparations for it,” says the materials of the Prosecutor General’s Office. It is assumed that the Syrian intended to "kill and wound as much as possible more people"It is not yet clear whether he has already chosen a specific target. In addition, there is no evidence that he is a member of a specific terrorist organization.
Yamen A. has been under direct supervision throughout the last week. German media reported that raids were also carried out in neighboring Hamburg. In total, 150 special forces and employees of the federal criminal police department were involved in the operation.
Prepared Vyacheslav Prokofiev (Paris), Stanislav Khamdokhov, Ekaterina Zabrodina
The New York Times reports that the perpetrator worked as a taxi driver. Also, according to media reports, the attacker, a native of Uzbekistan, entered the country by winning a green card in the lottery. However, there is no official confirmation of these reports yet. The US Embassy declined to comment.
The authorities immediately announced that this was a terrorist attack. Everything developed according to the already familiar pattern: the car crashed into a crowd of people, and then into a school bus. A note linking him to ISIS was found in the criminal's car.
New York was preparing for Carnival. Halloween, a fun “horror” movie, every year brings together tens of thousands of people to a colorful parade, ready to jokingly scare each other. But everything turned out to be real horror.
In the middle of the workday, just a few blocks from where the parade was supposed to start, a small freight car I unexpectedly turned off the main road onto a bike path. He drove, running over people, for 10 blocks (that’s a kilometer and a half), until he crashed into a school bus at an intersection. There were children in it. A man jumped out of the car - a scarecrow in one hand, a paintball pistol in the other - and began to rush chaotically along the street.
“It looked like he was injured because he was limping. Then someone shouted that he had a weapon and people began to run away,” recalls an eyewitness.
The police neutralized the attacker, wounding him in the stomach. The identity of the terrorist has been established: Saidullo Saipov, 29 years old. The hospital where he was taken is now under heavy security. He refused to answer questions from the FBI. It is reported that Saipov emigrated from Uzbekistan in 2010, lived in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri, then moved to New Jersey and worked as a driver. There are two registered in his name transport companies. They say his immigration papers are out of date. In the car (and Saipov rented this pickup an hour before the tragedy) they found a bag, in it hunting knife and a note in Arabic in which he mentioned the terrorist group ISIS, which is banned in many countries.
“This is a very difficult day for our city, a terrible tragedy in Manhattan. Based on available information, what happened was a terrorist attack, an insidious and brutal attack on innocent people. Be vigilant and know that NYPD officers will be under increased pressure today and in the coming days,” said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The investigation believes that Saipov acted alone, but his surroundings are now being studied in the most careful way. So far there is little information. On social networks, as it turns out, the terrorist was not present, and neighbors describe him as a friendly and calm person.
US President Donald Trump responded to the tragic events in New York with a series of tweets: “I just ordered the Department of Homeland Security to tighten our border control program. It’s good to be politically correct, but not in this situation!”
It all happened a stone's throw from the memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, in which nearly three thousand people died. Then the planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
Experts now say that the car has become a new weapon in the hands of terrorists: Nice, London, Barcelona, Stockholm and now New York, for which the current terrorist attack was the first since the 9/11 tragedy.
In 2017, America was rocked by several high-profile terrorist attacks, which led to multiple political changes in the country's legislation.
Shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport, Florida.
This year was not going well at the very beginning. On January 6, an incident occurred at Fort Lauderdale International Airport that killed 5 people, injured six, and injured 37 as a result of the ensuing panic. In the baggage claim area at the airport, a passenger on a Canadian flight, 26-year-old Alaska resident Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, took a weapon from his suitcase and went to the toilet to load it. Then he returned and opened fire on those around him. Previously, Esteban Santiago-Ruiz served in Iraq and was a participant in combat operations, after which his relatives noticed some oddities in his behavior.
In 2016, Santiago contacted the FBI office in Anchorage with a statement that American intelligence services were trying to control him, and that the authorities were forcing him to watch videos of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” and join its ranks. A forced medical examination did not recognize Santiago as sick.
Shooting in Las Vegas
October 1 this year at the Mandala Bay hotel and entertainment complex on the Las Vegas Strip. The incident happened during a country music concert by Rote 91, which took place at open area. Stephen Paddock, who committed the horrific massacre, carried a large arsenal of firearms into the hotel room.
Paddock's room overlooked the concert venue, and when country singer Jason Aldean took the stage, Paddock opened fire on the crowd of spectators. The shooter stopped shooting when he discovered hotel security approaching his door. One security representative, Stephen Paddock, was wounded in the leg and then committed suicide with a shot in the head. 58 people were killed and more than 500 were injured.
It is impossible to say for sure whether the shooting in Las Vegas was a planned terrorist attack, or whether the reasons were debts gambling Paddock, anti-republican sentiments and mental illness. On October 2, Islamic State terrorists said Paddock was their “soldier” and converted to Islam “many months ago.” However, the statement does not provide any further concrete evidence that Paddock was associated with terrorists.
Terrorist attack in New York
On October 31, a 29-year-old native of Uzbekistan, Saifullo Saipov, who came to America with a green card, rented a pickup truck, Saipov drove onto a bicycle path and deliberately began to hit cyclists and pedestrians. After which Saipov drove a pickup truck into a school bus.
The tragedy killed 8 people, 13 people were seriously injured. The behavior of Sayfullo Saipov and the note found in his car leave no doubt that this act was pre-planned by a terrorist group.
Texas church shooting
On November 5, there was a lone shooter in the Texas community of Sutherland Springs. 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelly burst into the church in the middle of the service and began shooting at parishioners with a Ruger SP 556 carbine. He decided to confront the guy local Stephen Williford, armed with a rifle. Kelly was wounded and attempted to flee in his vehicle, but Williford gave chase.
In Guadalupe County, the killer's car drove off the highway, the driver was found dead behind the wheel - Kelly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Those who knew Kelly personally claim that he was aggressive towards fans of religion and that he himself held atheistic views. Devin Patrick Kelly was previously convicted of beating his wife and child.
Kelly purchased the weapon, which was used to kill 26 people and injure 20 others in a Texas church, illegally by giving a false address and lying about having a criminal record. Nearly half of those killed in the Texas shooting were minors.
Manhattan explosion
December 11 at Manhattan's Port Authority Bus Terminal, which local police regard as a terrorist attack. Homemade explosives detonated under the station building itself. The detainee was 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. He had an explosive device and batteries with him.
On this moment The suspect was taken into custody and is in the hospital, as Ullah was injured due to the premature explosion. As a result of the terrorist attack, 4 people were injured, but there were no deaths.
