“The New York terror attack suspect had been planning his deadly rampage for a “number of weeks”, scouting out the best open spaces in Manhattan to mow down pedestrians and cyclists, authorities said on Thursday.
“As Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, 29, remained under police guard in hospital on Thursday, the FBI and NYPD intensified its hunt for clues to what led up to the attack, digging deeper into the life of a man who arrived in the US just six years ago.
“In the New Jersey suburb of Paterson where the suspect lived with his wife and three children, investigators scoured his home on Wednesday and interviewed his wife, while in Uzbekistan, the focus turned to intelligence reports about militant factions in the Central Asian nation.
“Saipov had been associated with social media accounts that contain ISIS-related material, a law enforcement official said on Wednesday.”
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