The terrorist attack in New York will lead to tougher immigration laws in the United States. We recall the major terrorist attacks in recent months Terrorist attack in America October
In 2017, America was shaken up by several high-profile terrorist attacks, which led to multiple political changes in the country's legislation.
Shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport, Florida.
This year hasn't started yet. On January 6, an incident occurred at Fort Lauderdale International Airport, which killed 5 people, injured six, and 37 were injured as a result of the panic that began. In the baggage claim area at the airport, a passenger on a Canadian flight, 26-year-old Alaskan resident Esteban Santiago-Ruiz, took out a weapon from his suitcase and went to the toilet to load it. Then he returned and opened fire on those around him. Previously, Esteban Santiago-Ruiz did military service in Iraq and was a participant in hostilities, after which his relatives noticed some oddities in his behavior.
In 2016, Santiago turned to the Anchorage FBI office with a statement that the American intelligence services were trying to control him, and the authorities were forcing him to watch videos. terrorist organization Islamic State and join its ranks. A compulsory medical examination did not recognize Santiago as sick.
Shooting in Las Vegas
October 1 this year at the Mandala Bay hotel entertainment complex on the Las Vegas Strip. The incident happened during a country music concert Rote 91, which took place in an open area. Stephen Paddock, who committed a monstrous massacre, brought a large arsenal of firearms into the hotel room.
The windows of Paddock's room overlooked the concert stage, and when country music artist Jason Aldean entered the stage, Paddock opened fire on the crowd of spectators. The shooter stopped firing when he found hotel security approaching his door. One security guard, Stephen Paddock, was shot in the leg and then killed himself with a gunshot to the head. 58 people were killed and more than 500 were injured.
Whether the shooting in Las Vegas was a planned terrorist act, or whether Paddock's gambling debts, anti-Republican sentiments and mental illness were the causes is not certain. On October 2, Islamic State terrorists claimed that Paddock was their "soldier" and converted to Islam "many months ago." However, there is no further concrete evidence that Paddock was linked to the terrorists in the statement.
Terror attack in New York
On October 31, a 29-year-old native of Uzbekistan, Saifullo Saipov, who came to America on a green card, arranged by renting a pickup truck, Saipov drove onto the bike path and purposefully began to knock down cyclists and pedestrians. After that, Saipov sent a pickup truck to the school bus.
The victims of the tragedy were 8 people, 13 people were seriously injured. Saifullo Saipov's behavior and the note found in his car leave no doubt that this act was pre-planned by the terrorist group.
Texas church shooting
November 5 in the Texas community of Sutherland Springs is a lone shooter. 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelly broke into the church in the middle of the service and started shooting at the parishioners with a Ruger-SP 556 carbine. Local resident Stephen Williford, armed with a rifle, decided to confront the guy. Kelly was injured and tried to escape in his car, but Williford gave chase.
In Guadelupe County, the killer's car went off the highway, the driver was found dead at the wheel - Kelly committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Those who were personally acquainted with Kelly claim that he was aggressive towards the admirers of religion, he himself adhered to atheistic views. Previously, Devin Patrick Kelly was convicted of beating his wife and child.
The weapon, from which 26 people were killed and 20 injured in a Texas church, was acquired illegally by Kelly, giving a false address and lying about having a criminal record. Nearly half of those killed in the Texas shooting were minors.
Explosion in Manhattan
December 11 at the Port Authority bus station in Manhattan, which the local police regard as a terrorist attack. Homemade explosives detonated under the station building itself. The detainee was 27-year-old Aqayed Ulla. It turned out to be an explosive device and batteries.
At the moment, the suspect has been taken into custody and is in the hospital, as Ulla was injured due to a premature explosion. As a result of the attack, 4 people were injured, there were no deaths.
New York on Tuesday became the scene of the largest terrorist attack on the metropolis in a decade and a half. According to law enforcement officers, 8 people were killed under the wheels of a pickup truck of a lone performer, and 13 more were injured of varying severity.
Impact on Manhattan
This is Tuesday around 3:05 pm local time. Attacker driven pickup truck high speed entered a two-lane pedestrian and cyclist path running parallel to the motorway along the western coast of the peninsula. This area of Manhattan is adjacent to a small park on the waterfront of the Hudson River. There are many cafes and restaurants around, many passers-by walk along the path at any time of the day, it is actively used by joggers and cyclists. This is a convenient way to ride a bike along the metropolis, bypassing congested city streets. Nearby tourist attractions are located, including the memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, a pier for ships going on excursions to the Statue of Liberty. There are also several schools here.
According to NYPD spokesman James O Neill, the pickup truck, moving south, turned sharply onto the path. Two cyclists were the first to fall under his wheels, who, according to eyewitnesses, were thrown several meters from a strong blow. Destroying everything in its path and leaving a terrible trail of the wounded and the dead, the pickup flew several hundred meters, and then crashed into a school bus at an intersection. Six victims died on the spot, two more died from their injuries in the hospital. Two adults and two children were injured on the bus.
Later, law enforcement agencies of the metropolis established that the driver of the pickup truck was a native of Central Asia.
The terrorist attack in New York was the largest in terms of the number of victims since the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001.
Jumping out of the car with a weapon in both hands, he shouted "Allah Akbar". Police later found an air pistol and a paintball gun at the scene. Saipov ran towards a group of children from a nearby school and, according to ABC News, citing eyewitnesses, pointed his weapon at them. Several photographs of the attacker have been published in the American media, in which he runs along the sidewalk and walks between cars along the roadway with weapons in his hands. Arriving at the scene of the incident, the police opened fire and neutralized the attacker with a wound in the stomach. Witnesses report about 9-10 shots, but there is no exact information about whether the driver fired at law enforcement officers or passers-by. Saipov was hospitalized and operated on, investigators are working with him.
Terror connection
The attacker used a rented pickup truck for the attack. A note in English was found in the car, stating that the attack was carried out on behalf of the Daesh terrorist group (banned in the Russian Federation. - "RG"), although the militants themselves have not yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Investigators also point out that the scenario of the attack - using a car as a battering ram against pedestrians - is similar to the signature of the latest terrorist attacks committed by Daesh followers in Europe. Based on these data, the US Department of Homeland Security qualifies what happened as terrorism. According to the main version, Saipov acted alone.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said there were "no signs of a broader threat." Nevertheless, in the evening, the streets of the city, along which the traditional annual Halloween parade took place, were patrolled by reinforced police squads.
How did the US authorities react?
It became the largest in terms of the number of victims since the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. In addition, this is the largest attack of its kind in the United States on behalf of Daesh under President Donald Trump, who declared the fight against the group his number 1 priority and promised to secure American soil from such attacks.
Trump reacted to the attack on his Twitter, calling the perpetrator a "sick and crazy man," and then expressed his condolences to the victims and their loved ones. The President used the situation to support his initiatives to tighten immigration controls. Recall that during the election campaign, in order to combat terrorism, he voiced the idea of banning all Muslims from entering the United States and compiling a database on the followers of Islam already living in the country. After his inauguration, he twice signed executive orders to tighten entry into the United States for citizens of a number of states with a predominantly Muslim population, insisting that terrorists could penetrate the border under the guise of refugees. But, to Trump's outrage, both documents were partially blocked by the judiciary.
His critics believe that these measures will be ineffective, since the perpetrators of attacks on behalf of Daesh are often those who have long lived in the United States and have been radicalized via the Internet already in the country. In addition, the President was accused of discrimination on religious grounds.
But the head of state stands his ground. He said he had issued a decree to tighten the rules for considering applications for entry into the United States, adding: "Being politically correct is good, but not in this case." "We must not allow Daesh to return or enter our country after their defeat in the Middle East and elsewhere. Enough!" he wrote in another tweet, likely referring to further restrictions on entry into the US for refugees from the conflict-ridden Middle East region.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called it "an insidious act of terrorism."
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What is known about the perpetrator of the attack?
According to ABC News, citing law enforcement agencies, Saipov moved to the United States in 2010, having received a visa under a special diversification program (Eng. Diversity Visa Lottery), which has been operating since 1995. Within its framework, about 55,000 visas are issued per year, primarily for citizens of those countries from which the flow of emigration to the United States is small. He lived in Cincinnati (Ohio), Tampa (Florida), and most recently with his wife and three children - in Paterson (New Jersey) near New York. During this time, he received the so-called green card - the right to permanent residence and work in the USA.
He worked mostly as a driver, had a license to drive trucks, and also worked part-time for the online taxi service Uber. Business Insider, citing a comment by Uber, reports that Saipov 6 months later, after which the company stopped working with him for unspecified reasons. At registration, he passed a standard check, according to the results of which he had no convictions for serious crimes.
According to the New York Times, Saipov previously came to the attention of the US federal authorities, but as an acquaintance or relative of one of the defendants in the case, not related to the terrorist attack in New York. The police searched his house. Neighbors characterized him positively, but complained that the incident harmed the reputation of the local Muslim diaspora.
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Terrorists target Europe
France has lifted the state of emergency since November 1. This was stated in Strasbourg by the President of the Fifth Republic, Emmanuel Macron. This regime was activated in November 2015 after a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, when 130 people were killed and 350 were injured at the hands of Islamist militants. Since then, it has been extended six times. Over the past two years, according to French Interior Minister Gerard Colon, law enforcement agencies managed to prevent 32 terrorist attacks, of which 13 - this year. About a thousand arrests of persons suspected of terrorist activities were made, 625 weapons were confiscated, including military-style ones, including grenade launchers.
Nevertheless, the French authorities failed to completely eliminate the terrorist threat, as evidenced by the tragedy in Nice, where on July 14 last year, 86 people died under the wheels of a multi-ton truck driven by a terrorist.
Simultaneously with the end of the state of emergency in France, a new law on internal security and the fight against terrorism came into force, into which, with some adjustments, a number of provisions of the state of emergency migrated. In particular, we are talking about limiting the place of residence and movement of radicals who have come to the attention of the special services, the use of electronic bracelets, and advanced electronic surveillance capabilities. In addition, the prefects received the right at their own discretion to close places of worship where, as stated in the law, "propaganda of hatred and violence" is being conducted.
In Britain, the police detained two 14-year-olds who are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack. The arrest took place in Northallerton, the capital of North Yorkshire. The teenagers are currently in police custody. The police have already carried out several searches in Northallerton. Law enforcement officers believe that this is an isolated case and nothing threatens residents of other areas of the county. Details of the investigation have not yet been released. There have been five terrorist attacks in the UK since March 2017. Of these, four are in London and one is in Manchester. Dozens of people became victims of terrorist attacks. In mid-September, after the terrorist attack on the London Underground, Prime Minister Theresa May raised the level of terrorist threat in the country from "severe" to "critical".
In Germany, the Prosecutor General's Office spoke about the averted terrorist attack, which was prepared by 19-year-old Syrian Yamen A. He was arrested during a large-scale police special operation in the city of Schwerin: the searches took place in an inconspicuous panel house, which, according to Spiegel Online, is inhabited by refugees. Yamen A. himself arrived in the country in the fall of 2015 - precisely as an asylum seeker and soon received a temporary residence permit from the German authorities. At first he did not arouse suspicion. Law enforcement agencies of Germany became interested in a foreigner after he began to search and order explosives and parts for collection on the Internet. pipe bomb. "The available data make it possible to seriously suspect Yamen A. that he was planning to commit a terrorist act, guided by Islamist motives, and has already begun preparations for it," the Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement. It is assumed that the Syrian was going to "kill and wound as possible more people". At the same time, it is not yet clear whether a specific target has already been chosen by him. In addition, there is no evidence that he was a member of a specific terrorist organization.
Under the direct supervision of Yamen A. was all last week. German media reports that raids were also carried out in neighboring Hamburg. In total, 150 special forces and employees of the federal criminal police department were involved in the operation.
Prepared Vyacheslav Prokofiev (Paris), Stanislav Khamdokhov, Ekaterina Zabrodina
On August 17, there was a terrorist attack in Barcelona. The van drove into a crowd of tourists near the Rambla, after which the terrorists staged a shootout in the market. According to official figures, 14 people died and 130 were injured.
Two suspects were arrested immediately after the attack. The driver of the car, who ran into people on the Rambla, fled.
The second attack was carried out on August 18 in the port of Cambrils, located near Barcelona. The attackers knocked down pedestrians, after which they fired on the police.
As a result, seven people were injured, including one policeman. Four attackers were killed on the spot. One was injured and was detained, but died from his injuries.
As it turned out, the attackers involved in two terrorist attacks in Catalonia were planning another attack. The police uncovered a group of eight people. The group members planned to blow up gas cylinders.
The terrorist group ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
On August 18, a massacre took place in the Finnish city of Turku, during which two people died and eight were injured of varying degrees of severity.
Around 16:00 local time, an 18-year-old Moroccan citizen staged a massacre in the central Market Square, during which about ten people were injured.
During a police arrest operation, the assailant was shot in the leg and taken to the university hospital in Turku. On August 23, the suspect was transferred to the prison hospital in Hämeenlinna. After undergoing treatment, he was transferred to Turku Prison, where he will remain in custody until charges are brought (probably until February 28, 2018).
A wanted Fiat Ducato was found the same evening in the evening, after which the police searched the house of the owner of the car, and also searched the refugee reception center in Pansió. One of the suspects has been put on the international wanted list.
The media noted that this attack is the first clash in Finland with an attack by Islamic extremists.
On October 14, 2017, two car bombs exploded in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The victims of the explosion were 358 people, and several hundred more people were seriously injured.
First, a truck with explosives flew into the air. It exploded in front of the Safari Hotel in the capital, which is located in the Khodan region. The building collapsed completely.
The second attack took place on the same day: another bomb exploded in the Madina government district. Two people died. The Somali authorities blamed the al-Qaeda-linked radical group Al-Shabaab, which is waging an armed struggle against the central government and responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks in the country, linked to Al-Qaeda. But no group takes responsibility for the attacks.
The attack was the largest in the last ten years in Africa.
On October 31, 2017, at around 3:05 pm local time, a terrorist attack occurred in New York City. Saifullo Saipov, 29, a native of Uzbekistan, drove a pickup truck at high speed onto a bike path in Lower Manhattan and began to crush people.
The tape, citing MSNBC, reports that eight people died as a result of the attack, and another 15 were injured. The driver of the car steered the vehicle at people in the bike path, crashed into a school bus, and then opened fire on the people.
The collision was made near the skyscraper One World Trade Center. It was built near the site where the twin towers were located, destroyed as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
Eyewitnesses of the incident claim that during the shooting, the man shouted “Allahu Akbar!”. The suspect was wounded by the police, detained and is in the hospital.
Saifulla Khabibullaevich Saipov immigrated to the United States in 2010 from Tashkent. According to social networks, before coming to the US, he lived in Osh in Kyrgyzstan and in Vologda. He came to America by winning the green card lottery.
For the last few months before the attack, Saipov lived in Paterson, New Jersey and worked as an Uber driver. The company said they never received any complaints about it.
In the US, Saipov has never been prosecuted and only had four traffic tickets.
In 2015, Saipov was interrogated by agents of the Ministry of Homeland Security because he was seen in ties with two people who were under surveillance by counterterrorism units.
In southeast Texas in the United States, a mass shooting occurred at a Baptist church, ABC News reports, citing sources in law enforcement agencies. At least 26 people were killed. So many more were injured.
In Sutherland Springs, at the First Baptist Church during a Sunday service, an armed man entered the church and began shooting at parishioners. He tried to escape in a car, he was shot dead by the police. According to Reuters, there are children among those killed.
According to an eyewitness - a woman who works at a gas station - shots were heard for at least 15 seconds.
The New York Times reports that the perpetrator worked as a taxi driver. Also, according to media reports, the attacker - a native of Uzbekistan - got into the country by winning a green card in the lottery. However, there is no official confirmation of these reports yet. The US Embassy declined to comment.
The authorities immediately announced that this was a terrorist attack. Everything developed according to the already familiar pattern: the car crashed into a crowd of people, and then into a school bus. In the car of the criminal found a note about involvement in ISIS.
New York is getting ready for carnival. Halloween, a cheerful "horror", every year gathers tens of thousands of people for a colorful parade, ready to jokingly scare each other. But everything turned into a real horror.
In the middle of the day, just a few blocks from where the parade was supposed to start, a small truck unexpectedly turned off the main highway onto a bike path. He drove, crushing people, 10 blocks (this is a kilometer and a half), until he crashed into a school bus at an intersection. There were children in it. A man jumped out of the car - a bugger in one hand, a paintball pistol in the other - and began to randomly rush along the street.
“It looks like he was injured because he was limping. Then someone shouted that he had a weapon and people began to scatter, ”recalls an eyewitness.
The policemen neutralized the attacker, wounding him in the stomach. The identity of the terrorist has been established: Saidullo Saipov, 29 years old. The hospital he was taken to is now under heavy guard. He refused to answer questions from the FBI. It is reported that Saipov emigrated from Uzbekistan in 2010, lived in Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania and Missouri, then moved to New Jersey, worked as a driver. Two transport companies are registered in his name. His immigration papers are reported to be expired. In the car (and Saipov rented this pickup truck an hour before the tragedy) they found a bag, in it a hunting knife and a note in Arabic, in which he mentioned the ISIS terrorist group banned in many countries.
“This is a very difficult day for our city, a terrible tragedy in Manhattan. Judging by the available data, what happened was a terrorist attack, an insidious and brutal attack on innocent people. Stay vigilant and know that NYPD officers will be on high alert today and in the coming days," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The investigation believes that Saipov acted alone, but his entourage is now being studied in the most thorough way. So far there is little information. In social networks, as it turns out, the terrorist was not present, and neighbors describe him as a friendly and calm person.
US President Donald Trump responded to tragic events in New York with a series of tweets: “I just ordered the Department of Homeland Security to tighten our border control program. Being politically correct is good, but not in this situation!”
It all happened a stone's throw from the memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which almost three thousand people died. Then the planes crashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
Experts now say that the car has become a new tool in the hands of terrorists: Nice, London, Barcelona, Stockholm and now New York, for which the current attack was the first since the tragedy of 9/11.
US President Donald Trump has said he is considering abolishing the green card lottery for foreigners seeking US residency. It is under this program, which is carried out in the countries of the former USSR, that Saifullo Saipov, a native of Uzbekistan, came to America. On Tuesday, October 31, Saipov ran over pedestrians on a New York street. The terrorist attack, inspired by Islamist propaganda, killed eight and injured 12 people. US President Donald Trump has publicly demanded the death penalty for the terrorist.
As follows from the statistics of the US Department of Homeland Security, Uzbekistan is the main republic of the former Soviet Central Asia in terms of the number of migrants in America. From 2006 to 2015, more than 37,000 people entered the United States from this country. For comparison, about 13,000 immigrants moved to the United States from slightly more prosperous Kazakhstan during the same period of time. Visitors from Central Asian countries such as Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan are estimated at several hundred each year. The number of arrivals from Uzbekistan for permanent residence peaked in 2008, when more than 6,000 people left the country for the United States.
The fact that Uzbekistan holds the record for the number of immigrants in America is explained by the fact that the population of Uzbekistan is the largest in Central Asia, political scientist Alexei Pilko, director of the Eurasian Communications Center, explained to Gazeta.ru.
The figures given for legal immigration to the US refer to the reign of Barack Obama. Similar statistics for the period of the beginning of the reign of President Donald Trump by country are not yet available on the department's website.
At the same time, according to other statistics from the same Department of Homeland Security, the total number of citizens arriving in the United States as refugees has declined markedly under the new administration. If in the first quarter of this year only about 25,000 refugees arrived in the United States, then in the second - already 13,000, and in the third - 10,000 people.
Trump may use the situation with the citizen of Uzbekistan who committed the terrorist attack to further tighten the policy of entry into the United States, The New York Times notes. The president's main criticism was directed at Democratic politicians, who, in his opinion, are to blame for the weakness of immigration laws.
According to Pilko of the Eurasian Communications Center, Trump will undoubtedly use the situation with the citizen of Uzbekistan "to put pressure on political opponents within the United States":
“His idea might be that as long as Russia is considered the enemy, the real enemy is international terrorism.”
Trump has already pledged to tougher penalties for terrorism in the aftermath of the October 31 attack. “What we have now is nonsense, just ridiculous,” Trump said. He noted that the US authorities need to develop a punishment "much faster and stronger" than what is now.
The American media say that the terrorist attack in New York is the first to take place in the United States under the Trump presidency, and the president wants to use it to promote his rhetoric of strengthening security.
Uzbekistan and the countries of Central Asia may fall victim to this approach. Washington has long considered Tashkent as its main ally in the region. This was due to the fact that the late president of this country, Islam Karimov, pursued a relatively independent policy from Moscow. Uzbekistan was not part of the CSTO military bloc and noticeably distanced itself from Moscow.
After the death of Karimov and the coming to power of the new president of the country, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has been actively establishing a dialogue with Moscow. As for the United States, according to Pilko, "America's romance with Uzbekistan is over." “Uzbekistan and the region ceased to be of interest to the United States after minimizing relations with Afghanistan,” the expert explains.
However, given Trump's new strategy in Afghanistan, this romance may flare up with renewed vigor.
The liberal magazine The Atlantic draws attention to the situation with the growth of terrorist sentiment in Uzbekistan, which, a day after the terrorist attack, published an article entitled “Why is Uzbekistan exporting so many terrorists?”
“...The draconian measures of the Karimov regime have not solved the problem of Islamic extremism in Uzbekistan. They only drove the problem underground and eventually pushed it abroad,” the magazine claims.
According to Gulf State Analytics expert Teodor Karasik, if the Trump administration begins to regulate immigration from Central Asian countries, this will "play into the hands of Moscow." Russia will use the cold snap to draw Uzbekistan into its sphere of influence. “This is not too good for American geopolitical interests in Central Asia,” the expert states.
It is worth noting that on November 2, Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev visited Uzbekistan. He held a meeting with President Mirziyoyev and signed a number of documents, including those regulating the work of Uzbek migrants in Russia.
Foe of migrants
However, for Trump, the main priority is still the anti-immigration agenda, which has become one of the main ones for his administration. Experts and the media note that Trump, unlike his predecessor Obama, shows a rather high intolerance towards visitors from non-European countries. And the US president himself does not hide this. He built his election campaign on criticism of illegal migration from Mexico and promised to build a wall on the border with this country.
Once in power, he restricted entry into the US from seven Muslim-majority countries. Under the restriction were such states as Syria, Libya, Chad, Somalia, Yemen, Iran. As noted by the American media, relatively prosperous Iran was among these countries solely for political reasons.
In September, Trump also canceled the DACA program (deferred deportation program for children of migrants). According to it, the children of illegal immigrants brought by their parents to the United States can remain in the country and not be deported.
Do not stop the program, so as not to deprive the future of "dreamers" - as the beneficiaries of DACA are called -, urged leading American Democratic politicians. In particular, former US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta asked to abandon plans to curtail Trump's program in his article for The Washington Post. However, the American leader did not listen to these arguments.
