New York attack investigation widens as FBI launches search for SECOND Uzbek man ‘connected to truck terror’
THE FBI is seeking a second Uzbek man in relation to the New York terror attack that killed eight people.
Officials identified the man as Mukhammadzoir Kadirov, 32, saying it was "seeking information... in relation to the deadly attack in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City" on Tuesday.
In that attack, Uzbek native and US permanent resident Sayfullo Saipov, 29, drove a truck through cyclists and pedestrians, killing eight and injuring 12.
Officials said Saipov left notes in Arabic with references to ISIS.
Federal prosecutors brought terrorism charges Wednesday against the Uzbek immigrant, saying he carried out the attack in response to ISIS' online calls to action and picked Halloween because he knew more people would be out on the streets.
The charges against 29-year-old could bring the death penalty.
Even as he lay wounded in the hospital from police gunfire, Saipov asked to display the ISIS flag in his room and said "he felt good about what he had done," prosecutors said in court papers.
Prosecutors said he had 90 videos and 3,800 photos on one of his two cellphones, many of them ISIS-related pieces of propaganda, including images of prisoners being beheaded, shot or run over by a tank.
Saipov left behind knives and a note, handwritten in Arabic, that included Islamic religious references and said "it will endure" a phrase that commonly refers to ISIS, FBI agent Amber Tyree said in court papers.
Today Saipov appeared in the New York federal courthouse in a wheelchair today and has been ordered detained.
He was handcuffed and his feet were shackled.
His lawyers said Wednesday they were not seeking bail. He did not enter a plea to terrorism charges. A judge set his next court date for Nov. 15.
Federal prosecutors say the man was "consumed by hate and a twisted ideology" when he attacked people on the bike path on Tuesday.
He is charged with providing material support to the Islamic State terrorist group and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.
Prosecutors say he was stopped by a "brave" police officer, who shot and wounded him Tuesday. They say he had been planning the attack for months.
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