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US Unveils Terror Charges Against New York Attack Suspect

  United States prosecutors on Wednesday announced federal terrorism charges against 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov, one day after he was arrested for a New … Continue reading US Unveils Terror Charges Against New York Attack Suspect


People stop at a memorial November 1, 2017 near the site of a terror attack in New York yesterday. The pickup truck driver who plowed down a New York cycle path, killing eight people, in the city’s worst attack since September 11, was associated with the Islamic State group but “radicalized domestically,” the state’s governor said Wednesday. The driver, identified as Uzbek national named Sayfullo Saipov was shot by police in the stomach at the end of the rampage, but he was expected to survive. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP
A woman and her dog at a memorial (on November 1, 2017) near the site of Tuesday’s (October 31) terror attack in New York. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

 

United States prosecutors on Wednesday announced federal terrorism charges against 29-year-old Uzbek immigrant Sayfullo Saipov, one day after he was arrested for a New York attack that killed eight people.

Prosecutors released a signed charging document that listed two counts: provision of material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.

Acting US Manhattan attorney Joon Kim was scheduled to announce the charges at a 5:45 pm (2145 GMT) news conference.

AFP