TERROR STRIKES NEW YORK AGAIN AS TRUCK PLOWS INTO PEOPLE.

ICHEOKU says eight people were killed and eleven others wounded when Uzbek born Islamist terrorist and a Green Card holder resident of the United States of America, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, deliberately plowed a rented truck into pedestrians and bicyclists on a bike path along Hudson River, Lower Manhattan New York City. What Europe and Britain has been dealing with across the Atlantic Ocean has finally caught up with Americans and now, we have to walk the streets fearing that another one of his kind might be pursuing us in a rented truck, car or even machete. 

How to guard against such lunacy nobody really knows and it was the same method the Charlottesville mad man used, during the last summer General Lee statue protest, to kill one innocent lady. Terrorist Sayfullo Saipov is a seven year old resident of the United States of America and came here legally; having won a Visa Green Card Lottery from his home country Uzbekistan to migrate to America. He did not enter America illegally, so a border wall or extreme vetting could not have prevented this attack. He has been in America for long enough, seven years, and should have become assimilated and done away with his old fanatical proclivities; but he did not. He used a rented truck which he obtained legally and except for his long beards, there is no way anyone would have raised eyebrows about a Middle Eastern looking American resident who just rented a truck and paid for it, after tendering necessary required identification cards and possibly a credit card. It is definitely a new dimension to this global Islamist terrorism.

Terrorism is a scourge of society and increasingly becoming very difficult to police because it is no longer beard wearing Middle Eastern looking men that are terrorists. The Las Vegas mass murderer did not wear beards nor looked Middle Eastern; he was a white man to the core and in every aspect, including being very rich. The Charlottesville terrorist too is not Middle Eastern looking nor did he wear any facial hair; he too is a 100% white male who just had demons urging him to do bad thing. Before them was Timothy McVeigh and a host of other domestic terrorists who did not fit the profile of THE TERRORIST; and this is the challenge facing law enforcement agencies in tracking these bad guys and proactively nipping their nefarious plan in the bud. 

It is rather unfortunate that every now and then, people are killed and others would loss their loved ones just because one fanatic lunatic decided to do something as drastic as mow down innocent tourists who were just minding their own business. May be it is about time a new approach to fighting terrorism is devised, including employing  psychological campaign to try and dissuade these would be bad actors from carrying out their bad intention. Some of their imams have to step up their game; fully aware that Americans interpret these attackers as Muslim actors and any time vengeance is exerted, it is targeted at any Muslim, regardless of sect of individual idiosyncrasy. Muslims should see these terrorists as giving their religion a bad name and try to take there religion back. 

As with everything touching and affecting New York City, there is always some international dimension to it. The Islamist terrorist attacks on 9/11 at the World Trade Center affected virtually every country in the world as each lost at least one of her citizen in the attack. This 10/31 truck attack also has international implication as five visiting Argentines were killed, with the sixth hospitalized. ICHEOKU says if only these terrorists know that America is a mix pot of different peoples from all over the world, may be they should be more circumspect and avoid attacking America, as they may also kill their own country men and women in the process. It is indeed regrettable that this problem is seemingly looking intractable and learning to accept it as a new normal is really quite difficult if not an unacceptable option. 

ICHEOKU encourages law enforcement officials to continue trying their best to keep the world which call America home, safe and secure in the land of the free and home of the brave. We shall never cower and we shall never allow fear to paralyze us; we are Americans and we live our lives heads up and chest out and no amount of terrorists attacks will change what is. Lastly, political correctness should be banished in the ongoing effort to contain and defeat these Islamist terrorists. It was very unfortunate that New York City Police Commissioner James O'Neil was initially reluctant and actually refused to initially name the terrorist. ENOUGH of these 'lets not make them mad' niceties, because we are mad and they too should be madder than they already are. If a man cannot feel free and safe in his home, what then is the use of having a home; your bastion and your castle. May the souls of those killed rest and may ACLU and all those human rights weasels not find their voice or feet trying to defend this lout.