Sayfullo Saipov
Sayfullo Saipov is an Uzbek citizen who committed a domestic terror attack inspired by ISIS on October 31, 2017. During the attack, Saipov drove his vehicle into the bike path along the Hudson River in New York City, killing eight people and injuring 11 others. After his pickup truck collided with a school bus, Saipov exited the vehicle and, waving a paintball gun and a pellet gun, ran along the path screaming "Allahu Akbar" before a police officer shot him in the abdomen. Saipov has been indicted on 22 charges, including material support of terrorism and murder and attempted murder in aid of racketeering.
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Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more