08:03 Trump blames ‘lax immigration system’ for NYC terror attack:
US President Donald Trump has asked Congress to enact immigration reforms to protect the American people, a day after a blast triggered by an Islamic State-inspired Bangladeshi-origin man near a metro station in New
York City left four persons injured.
Akayed Ullah, the 27-year-old suspected bomber, had wires and a pipe bomb strapped to his body. The device yesterday prematurely exploded between two subway platforms near Port Authority, which is America’s largest bus terminal, police said.
“(The) attempted mass murder attack in New York City — the second terror attack in New York in the last two months — once again highlights the urgent need for Congress to enact legislative reforms to protect the American people,” Trump said.
The suspect reportedly came to the US from Bangladesh some seven years ago on a family visa.
“First and foremost… America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country. The terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security,”
Trump said.
He added that the suspect had entered the country through “extended-family chain migration,” a system the president is seeking to end that allows families to sponsor relatives to come to the United States.
— PTI
01:02 IB flags concerns of ‘lone wolf’ attacks during Gujarat poll campaign :
Intelligence agencies have gathered information that a “lone wolf” may try to target roadshows of “big political leaders” during the campaigning for the assembly elections in Gujarat, officials said.
Based on intelligence inputs and interrogation reports of two arrested suspected terrorists, the agencies have alerted the Gujarat Police that a “lone wolf” may try to carry out attacks on roadshows of top political leaders and there is a need to take maximum precaution, a senior government official said
However, it is not immediately known if the Ahmedabad Police’s decision to deny permission to the roadshows of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and the BJP, to be held on Tuesday, was related to the intelligence inputs.
Ahmedabad Police Commissioner A K Singh cited traffic congestion and some main markets and old city areas, which are communally sensitive and have narrow roads, falling on the routes of the roadshows, as the reasons for denying the permission to the roadshows.
A “lone wolf” is a terrorist who carry out attacks alone without having any direct contact with any organisation.
One Uroz Khan, arrested in Madhya Pradesh on November 6, had reportedly told police that he promised to supply arms and explosives to two suspected ISIS operatives for allegedly carrying out “lone wolf” attacks on a Jewish synagogue and during election rallies in Gujarat, the official said.
ISIS suspect Ubaid Mirza, who was in the custody of the National Investigation Agency, also reportedly told the agency that ISIS style “loan wolf” attack was planned on roadshow and rallies in Gujarat. — PTI
Source: Rediff