Terror in Manhattan
City Journal Audio
Manhattan Institute
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šļø 1 November 2017
ā±ļø 19 minutes
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Summary
Judith MillerĀ joinsĀ City JournalĀ associate editorĀ Seth BarronĀ to discussĀ the most recent Islamic terrorist attack in New York City.
Shortly after 3:00Ā p.m.Ā on Halloween, a 29-year-oldĀ man from Uzbekistan, Sayfullo Saipov, drove a rented pickup onto a Hudson River Park bike path in Lower Manhattan. Within ten minutes, eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured. NYPD officers responded quickly after the attack began, shooting Saipov in the abdomen before he could cause more mayhem.Ā He is in police custody, and details from the incidentĀ are still emerging.
Judith MillerĀ is an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, aĀ City JournalĀ contributing editor, a best-selling author, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter formerly withĀ The New York Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm City Journal editor Brian Anderson. |
| 0:11.2 | Thanks for joining us for the 10 Blocks podcast featuring urban policy and cultural commentary |
| 0:16.5 | with City Journal editors, contributors, and special guests. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm Seth Barron, the associate editor of City Journal. Joining me today is Judith Miller. |
| 0:29.6 | Judy is a adjunct fellow here at the Manhattan Institute, |
| 0:33.6 | a Pulitzer Prize-winning contributing editor for City Journal, and a Fox News contributor. |
| 0:40.0 | Judy, thanks for joining us on 10 blocks. |
| 0:42.3 | Thanks very much, sir. |
| 0:43.3 | So we're going to talk about the, what's, I guess, come down, come to be known as the |
| 0:49.0 | Halloween terrorist massacre that happened yesterday in lower Manhattan. |
| 0:55.2 | Judy, fill us in on what's what we know so far and what the developing news is. |
| 1:02.2 | Well, we've learned a lot more about the perpetrator of this Halloween horror, Seth. |
| 1:09.9 | We've learned that he was not on the NYPD's radar. That we learned today from |
| 1:18.1 | John Miller, the Deputy Secretary of Counterterrorism for the NYPD, who told us that even though |
| 1:23.8 | there were people who were on the NYPD's radar, that is, who were under surveillance, |
| 1:30.2 | and he was, he knew them and he was in their circle. |
| 1:34.6 | He himself had never been either under FBI or NYPD investigation as a subject of inquiry. |
| 1:42.6 | That's very important. |
| 1:43.5 | We also learned that he was |
| 1:45.4 | radicalized here domestically. That's what you and I had assumed yesterday as we were writing, |
| 1:52.1 | but we learned today that he had decided within the last few weeks to carry out this |
| 1:58.5 | terror attack because he had been planning it for a few weeks. |
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