ISIS Claims Responsibility for NYC Attack and Still Calls Mandalay Shooter One of Their Own

ISIS Claims Responsibility for NYC Attack and Still Calls Mandalay Shooter One of Their Own

ISIS lauded the attack in al-Naba, an Arabic-language 16-page color newsletter distributed within ISIS territory and online as a PDF. Instead of being buried in the news briefs in the back of the issue, where ISIS recently touted the death toll and damages in California wildfires, the New York news was nestled next to the editor's note on page 3. 

Without mentioning Saipov by name, ISIS said the attacker killed "a number of crusaders on a street in New York City" close to the site of the "Battle of 11 September." 

ISIS, which has in explicit detail encouraged followers to use larger and heavier trucks to inflict more damage, noted that Saipov used a "small truck" to kill eight people. They also noted that Argentinian and Belgian victims were among the dead.