The Halloween Terror Attack in New York: The Threat from Foreign-Born Terrorists

On Halloween, Uzbek-bornSayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov allegedly murdered eight people and injured 12 with a rented truck in New York City.   The details of the attack, the number of victims, and Saipov’s personal information could change over the next few days.  However, based on the information that we have so far, Saipov entered the United States in 2010 as a lawful permanent resident with a green card.  Heobtained his green card through theDiversity Immigrant Visa Program, which awards 50,000 green cards annually to those who enter the running from select countries.  Uzbekistan has not been a major source of terrorists.   From 1975 through the end of 2016, three terrorists born in Uzbekistan attempted attacks on U.S. soil.  They killed or injured zero people in their attempted or threatened attacks. Ulugbek Kodirov was convicted in 2012 of threatening to assassinate President Obama after entering on a student visa.  Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev entered on a green card that he won in a diversity lottery and also threatened tokill President Obama.  Fazliddin Kurbanov entered as a refugee and was convicted of possessing an unregistered explosive device.   Threats to assassinate the president are farfetched, but we count assassinations of politicians as terrorism just as theGlobal Terrorism Database does.  If the death toll from the New York attack doesn ’t rise, a total of 3,037 people have been murdered on U.S. soil by 182 foreign-born terrorists from 1975 th...
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