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Suspect planned NY attack for weeks in name of IS: police

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov spent weeks planning to conduct an attack in the name of the Islamic State group, police said Wednesday, after eight people were killed in New York’s worst attack since September 11, 2001. Authorities say Saipov, an Uzbek immigrant who moved to America in 2010, used a rented pickup truck to mow down pedestrians and cyclists along a mile-long stretch of a bike path on Lower’s […]