An Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
supporter behind the deadliest terror attack in New York since 9/11 has been told he will die in prison serving multiple life sentences.
Sayfullo Saipov
| ...the Uzbeck lone wolf from Paterson, NJ, where he lived next to the Omar Mosque. He rented a truck for the purpose of running over as many people as possible while screaming “Allahu akhbar,” though he only managed to kill eight for ISIS and wound 12 more despite also crashing into a school bus. He came to the U.S. under President George HW Bush’s Diversity Immigrant Visa program in 2010, one of millions of Uzbeks to take advantage of the offer... |
He was given 10 life sentences - eight of which run consecutively - plus 260 years, and will never be released.
As he was sentenced, he was told he had "destroyed so many lives" - but showed no remorse during the trial.
Saipov was confronted by victims' families and survivors in court, with the judge noting his "sheer unrepentant nature" during sentencing on Wednesday.
The Uzbekistan national, now 35, used a rented truck to attack cyclists and pedestrians at random on downtown Manhattan's West Side on the evening of Halloween 2017.
He shouted "God is great" in Arabic and was shot by police as he emerged from the vehicle. He hoped the atrocity would earn him membership of the group, a previous hearing was told.