The suspect in the deadly New York City truck rampage was inspired by the Islamic State group's online videos and plotted his attack for two months, renting a truck ahead of time to practice turning it, U.S. authorities said in bringing terrorism charges against the Uzbek immigrant. And after his trail of terror was halted by a police bullet, he asked to display the Islamic State flag in his hospital room, saying "he felt good about what he had done," authorities said. Investigators in multiple states raced to retrace Saipov's steps and understand his motivations, which they said were illuminated by a note he left by the truck: "Islamic Supplication. Sayfullo Saipov, the New York City truck attack suspect, was in a wheelchair during a hearing in Manhattan Federal Court on Wednesday. 'Following ISIS instructions'In the past few years, the Islamic State group has exhorted followers online to use vehicles, knives or other close-at-hand means of killing people in their home countries.

Source: CBC News November 02, 2017 12:42 UTC