A Bangladeshi national in his 20s has been taken into custody with serious injuries after a pipe bomb he was carrying malfunctioned and exploded prematurely inside a Midtown Manhattan subway station Monday morning.
The suspect, identified as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, was walking east towards Times Square when a 'low-tech' explosive attached to his body with Velcro and zip ties partially exploded. Another five-inch metal pipe bomb was found on his person.
Law enforcement sources who spoke to CNN says Ullah is speaking to investigators at the hospital, and says he carried out the attack as revenge for recent actions by Israelis against Muslim Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
revenge for recent actions by Israelis against Muslim Palestinians in the Gaza Strip
Ok, sure. Makes perfect sense to attack NYC because of this.
Guy obviously didn't pay attention in suicide bomber class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyregion/explosion-times-square.html
The fact that the sun came up is reason enough for an attack by the *religion of peace (* - as long as you aren't an infidel, worthy of death).
That was kinda my tongue-in-cheek direction. Not a very bright peoples.
What was their excuse last time?
Religion, mental illness, or a plethora of other things. The same excuses used to justify murder of people since the dawn of time.
Boredom. I mean, really.... what else do they have to do?
If Muslims are trying to get Donald Trump to deport every single last one of them - even if they are US born - and shut down their mosques, this is a great way to accomplish that.
Details on a possible motive were unclear, though analysts at the SITE Intelligence Group noted that the pro-ISIS Maqdisi media group suggested a link between the attack and President Trump's decision last week to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, The Washington Post reported.
Ullah lived in Brooklyn after he entered the U.S. in 2011 from Bangladesh on a chain migration visa, Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Houlton said in a statement.
It appears that Trump hit another hole in one when he said we needed to stop chain migration.
During the ten-year time frame (2005-2015), officials said, the U.S. permanently resettled roughly 9.3 million new immigrants on the basis of family ties.
That’s more than 70 percent of all new immigration in that period,
I just don't know how anyone can keep looking at what's going on and support these kinds of immigration policies.
Because a minute percentage of them committed an attack?