By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
ISIS claimed responsibility Thursday for the terrorist attack in New York City earlier the week that killed eight people and wounded another dozen.
The statement in the group’s weekly newsletter declared the truck attack as “one of the most prominent attacks targeting Crusaders in America.”
The group called the suspect, Sayfullo Saipov, 29, a “soldier of the Caliphate” and said the attack was a response to ISIS’ call to target “citizens of the Crusader countries involved in the alliance against the Islamic State.”
“On Tuesday, 11 Safar, one of the soldiers of the Islamic State attacked a number of crusaders on a street in New York City, close to the monument for the 9/11 raid, which resulted in killing and wounding more than 60 crusaders, and unto Allah is all praise,” the newsletter said in a translation by SITE Intelligence Group, a company that tracks extremist groups.
It should be noted that 12 people – not more than 60 – were injured in the truck attack.
According to a complaint filed against the suspect, investigators said Saipov was a recently radicalized immigrant who plotted the attack about a year ago after getting his inspiration from ISIS videos.
