"Investigators seek motive" for NYC truck attack

The "Authorities" are still being less than forthcoming with the American public in their statements concerning the identity of the man who drove a rented Home Depot truck down a sidewalk in New York City yesterday, killing 8 and wounding a dozen more.

They're being tight-lipped, they say, so as not to compromise the investigation into who he was and why he did it. Since the "analysts" and "experts" seem incapable of seeing a blackberry in a saucer of milk, Walt will help out with a summary of the facts, as divulged by other, non-official sources.

The short, slight, bearded attacker was Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old who got into the USA legally in 2010, through... wait for it... the Diversity Visa Lottery. President Trump, along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA), has been calling for an end to the programme since August. Under the RAISE Act, introduced in February and endorsed by Mr Trump in August, the Diversity Visa Lottery would be eliminated altogether. Here's what POTUS tweeted this morning.

Mr Saipov has a Florida driver's licence but, according to the Clinton News Network, may have been staying in New Jersey. Records show Saipov was a commercial truck driver who formed a pair of businesses in Ohio. He had also driven for Uber. [Quelle surprise! Ed.] An Ohio marriage licence shows that a truck driver with one of Saipov's addresses and his name, spelled slightly differently, married a fellow Uzbek [Uzbek fellow? Ed.] in 2013. He also seems to have been known to police in St. Charles County MO, where the mug shot above was taken after an arrest a year ago.

So that's who he was, except to say that most Uzbeks are Muslims. CNN hasn't said (if it knows) whether the marriage recorded in 2013 was a proper Islamic marriage or otherwise, but Walt thinks it's a safe bet that Mr Saipov is a follower of the Prophet. (Lifetime pct .992) Or should we say soldier of the Prophet, in order to discern the motive which seems to have eluded government "investigators".

What Walt predicted yesterday (see "NYC attack: 'A statement consistent with terrorism'" WWW 31/10/17) has been confirmed by a 12-year-old student who had just left a nearby school. "A person hopped out of the car with two guns and started yelling and screaming," said the lad. "They were yelling 'Allahu akbar."' (Lifetime pct .992.)

Yet "investigators" are still saying they're trying to figure out what motivated Mr Saipov to commit this dastardly act. It would be incorrect to say they have no clue, because a note was found in the truck, "handwritten in a foreign language", according to one of the two law enforcement officials who spoke about the document. Both said its contents were being investigated but "supported the belief the act was terrorism." Notice that they didn't say "Islamic terrorism", even though note says (Walt can reveal) that the perp did it "for ISIS".

Now that I've saved the NYPD, FBI and other government agencies thousands of dollars which might have been spent trying to figure all this out, I would appreciate receiving my reward, in small bills please, to the usual address. You're welcome.