When 27-year-old Akayed Ullah allegedly strapped on a crude pipe bomb and detonated it in a crowded subway passageway Monday, he became the third terrorist in just 15 months to attempt to kill New Yorkers in the name of ISIS.
“We’re going to piece together who is he, what’s he all about?” NYPD Counterterrorism Chief James Waters said. “Who are his family members, associates, his contacts? Why did he do this?”
Still, it’s safe to say the NYPD likely had a good idea what they were dealing with almost from the start. The young Bangladeshi immigrant had much in common with Sayfullo Saipov, who is accused of killing eight people in a truck attack on a bike path just weeks ago, and he had much in common with Ahmed Rahimi, who used a pressure cooker bomb to injure dozens in Chelsea last September.
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Source: ABC7 New York News