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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Police: Truck attack suspect ‘did this in the name of ISIS’
By COLLEEN LONG
and MATT SEDENSKY
Associated Press
NEW YORK — The
Uzbek immigrant accused
of using a truck to mow peo-
ple down along a bike path,
killing eight, “did this in the
name of ISIS” and followed
the extremist group’s online
instructions practically to the
letter, police said Wednesday.
Investigators, meanwhile,
were at the hospital bedside of
29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov,
working to extract informa-
tion about the attack Tuesday
near the World Trade Center
memorial that also left 12 peo-
ple injured. Saipov was shot
by a police officer after jump-
ing from his rented Home
Depot pickup truck.
John Miller, deputy police
commissioner for intelligence,
said Saipov left behind notes
at the scene, handwritten in
Arabic with symbols and
words, that essentially said the
Islamic State group, or ISIS,
“would endure forever.”
“It appears that Mr. Saipov
had been planning this for a
number of weeks. He did this
in the name of ISIS,” Miller
said, citing the notes.
In the past few years, the
Islamic State has been exhort-
ing followers online to use
vehicles or other close-at-hand
means of killing people in
their home countries. England,
France and Germany have
seen deadly vehicle attacks in
the past year or so.
“He appears to have fol-
lowed, almost exactly to a
T, the instructions that ISIS
St. Charles County, Mo. Depart-
ment of Corrections/KMOV via AP
This undated photo shows
Sayfullo Saipov.
AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
Law enforcement personnel examine the scene Wednesday after a driver mowed down
people on a riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center on Tuesday in New York.
has put out in its social media
channels before with instruc-
tions to its followers on how
to carry out such an attack,”
Miller said.
In Tuesday’s attack, Saipov
drove his speeding truck for
nearly a mile along the bike
path, running down cyclists
and pedestrians, then crashed
into a school bus, authorities
said. He was shot in the abdo-
men after he jumped out of the
vehicle brandishing air guns
and yelling “God is great!” in
Arabic, they said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio called
it “a cowardly act of terror.”
Miller said Saipov had
never been the subject of a
New York police investiga-
tion but appears to have some
links to people who have been
investigated.
The aftermath took a polit-
ical turn Wednesday when
President Donald Trump said
Saipov came to the U.S. under
a visa lottery program —
“a Chuck Schumer beauty,”
Trump called it in a reference
to the Senate’s top Democrat.
The program dates to 1990,
when Republican President
George H.W. Bush signed it as
part of a bipartisan immigra-
tion bill. Trump urged tougher
immigration measures based
instead on merit and said he
will ask Congress to end the
program.
Schumer, who represents
New York, said in a statement
that he has always believed
that immigration “is good for
America.”
In a number of recent
extremist attacks around the
world, the assailants were
found to have been “lone
wolves” — inspired but not
actually directed by the Islamic
State. In some cases they never
even made contact with the
group.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said
Saipov became “radicalized
domestically.”
On the morning after the
bloodshed, city leaders vowed
New York would be not intim-
idated, and they commended
New Yorkers for going ahead
with Halloween festivities on
Wednesday night.
They also said Sun-
day’s New York City Mara-
thon, with 50,000 participants
and some 2 million specta-
tors anticipated, will go on as
scheduled.
“We will not be cowed. We
will not be thrown off by any-
thing,” de Blasio said.
While the mayor said
there have been no credi-
ble threats of any additional
attacks, police announced the
deployment of sniper teams,
bomb-sniffing dogs, helicop-
ters, sand-truck barricades
and other stepped-up security
along the marathon route, in
the subways and other sites.
And New York Police
Commissioner James O’Neill
urged people to be vigilant and
tell police if they see “some-
thing that doesn’t look right.”
The dead consisted of five
people from Argentina, one
from Germany, and two Amer-
icans, authorities said. Nine
people remained hospitalized
in serious or critical condition,
with injuries that included
lost limbs and head, chest and
neck wounds.
A roughly two-mile stretch
of highway in lower Man-
hattan was shut down for the
investigation. Authorities also
converged on a New Jersey
apartment building and a van
in a parking lot at a New Jer-
sey Home Depot.
New Yorkers woke to
a heavy police presence
Wednesday outside the World
Trade Center and at other loca-
tions around the city.
Runners and cyclists who
use the popular bike path for
their pre-dawn exercise were
diverted away from the crime
scene by officers stationed at
barricades just north of where
the rampage began.
Dave Hartie, 57, who
works in finance, said he rides
his bike along the path every
morning.
“It’s great to be in the city
and have that kind of peace,”
he said. As for the attack, he
said, “It’s the messed-up world
we live in these days. Part of
me is surprised it doesn’t hap-
pen more often.”
The slight, bearded Saipov
is from heavily Muslim
Uzbekistan and came to the
U.S. legally in 2010, police
said. He has a Florida driver’s
license but was apparently liv-
ing in New Jersey, they said.
He is a permanent legal
U.S. resident. A law enforce-
ment official said he has two
children and a wife and moved
up from Florida around June.
The official wasn’t authorized
to discuss details of the inves-
tigation and spoke on condi-
tion of anonymity.
Records show Saipov was
a commercial truck driver who
formed a pair of businesses in
Ohio. He had also driven for
Uber.
Mirrakhmat Muminov, 38,
of Stow, Ohio, said he knew
Saipov because they were both
Uzbek truck drivers. He por-
trayed Saipov as an argumen-
tative young man whose work
was falling apart and who
“was not happy with his life.”
Thompson: ‘My commitment and my voice will remain strong’
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Before and after the Oct.
25 meeting, commissioners
Sarah Nebeker and Lisa Clem-
ent, along with Lee, chided
Thompson repeatedly. Thomp-
son wrote in the letter that she
would address commissioners’
specific complaints against her
at the board’s Nov. 8 meeting.
One issue centered on a
June incident in which Thomp-
son allegedly placed her hands
on a county employee — who
has not been named — after
a Red Cross meeting at Fort
Clatsop. Immediately before
that, she said she “was the only
commissioner on the board
who worked.” After making
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contact, she allegedly asked
in a loud, frustrated tone, “Do
you know what he did,” in ref-
erence to County Manager
Cameron Moore. She contin-
ued by claiming Moore inten-
tionally scheduled a meeting in
May so she would not be able
to attend.
An internal investigation
concluded she was acting in
her role as commissioner at the
time and violated board behav-
ior policy. While the county
will not take disciplinary
action, Portland-based labor
attorney Heather Martin sent a
letter to Thompson explaining
she may be held personally lia-
ble for similar behavior in the
future if it leads to a lawsuit
against the county.
In a July email to The Daily
Astorian about the investiga-
tion, Thompson claimed that
county staffers feared retali-
ation if they ever went pub-
lic about their concerns
with county government. In
response to the statement,
Moore directed County Coun-
sel Heather Reynolds to reach
out to Thompson’s lawyer for
specific examples. No specif-
ics were provided, Moore said.
Since then, the county has
hired Jill Goldsmith of Work-
place Solutions Northwest, a
Portland mediation service,
to investigate the claim and
interview county employees.
Goldsmith also conducted the
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before Lee approves Thomp-
son’s expenses — a power
granted to the board chairman.
They will also discuss adopt-
ing additional policies regard-
ing expenses in the future.
In her letter to the newspa-
per, Thompson also pointed
to an announcement last year
from Lee that he would not
seek re-election in 2018.
“So, the more important
issue at hand is this: the timing
is right, or will soon be right,
for the board to commit itself
to diversity of opinion and
for county officials to commit
themselves to opening a rela-
tively closed governance pro-
cess to the fresh air and sun-
light of new ideas,” Thompson
SCHEDULE
W EDNESDAY E VENING
A
investigation into Thompson’s
behavior at the Red Cross
meeting.
A financial report pre-
sented at the meeting detailed
Thompson’s $3,640 in claimed
expenses since July. The five
commissioners are allowed a
combined $17,500 for the year
in the county budget.
Complaints about her
expenses have continuously
nagged Thompson since she
was sworn in as a commis-
sioner in January 2015. She
has claimed nearly $20,000.
Lee directed county staff
last week to add an agenda
item to the Nov. 8 meeting
about expenses. Commis-
sioners will hold a discussion
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wrote. “Diversity in our gov-
ernment and on our board is a
healthy thing. It is worthwhile,
if not imperative, that we work
together to express different
points of view and that we
discuss all paths to common
goals.”
Thompson’s term also ends
next year.
“She has to run for re-elec-
tion in May,” Lee said after the
Oct. 25 meeting. “That will be
up to the voters to decide.”
For now, each commis-
sioner is slated to serve at least
14 more months.
“My heart is in this place,”
Thompson wrote. “My com-
mitment and my voice will
remain strong.”
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