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NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers for a man charged with killing eight people when he drove his truck onto a New York City bike path say the death penalty should be ruled out because President Donald Trump was “uninformed and full or rage” when he called for it. The lawyers filed papers Tuesday in federal court on behalf of Sayfullo Saipov (sy-foo-LOH’ sah-YEE’-pawf).

Contribute songs, videos, poems, anecdotes, pictures, anything at all that commemorates New York City, the life there both good and bad, high and low brow, the previous attacks (Such as Osama Step Right Up and Kiss My Rosy Irish Arse [composed by one of the firemen of 9/11]). We did it for the country music festival in Vegas. Let's do it for New York, New York. I started it out with Sinatra for a source URL. Please add your own contributions.

FP: ...One of your special expertises is on how leftists, and some of our European allies, have chosen to side with our enemy. Now, after the Madrid terror attack, we see another European ally succumb to appeasement.... Hanson: Well, even before the terrorists' communiques were fully disseminated the Spanish electorate voted for appeasement and a socialist government that would distance itself from the United States. This is the most profound example of capitulation since Daladier and Chamberlain and sets a truly awful example... Worse, this was not panic from a fickle leader but an overwhelming expression of public fear and...

A vehicle crashed into people in Drottninggatan in the Swedish capital and at least three have died, according to authorities. Police said it drove into department store Ahlens Mall around 3.40pm local time and there are reports of numerous others being injured. Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said everything indicates that it is a "terror attack".

A Berlin mosque attended by the young Tunisian who attacked a Christmas market in December has shut its doors and been banned, as police on Tuesday launched a major raid against the capital’s Islamist scene. Berlin authorities have banned the Fussilet mosque, which Anis Amri used to attend. Meanwhile around 460 officers searched 24 locations across the capital city in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a raid linked to the mosque. Amri had visited the mosque regularly before he drove a truck into a Christmas market on December 19th, killing 12 people, in an attack later claimed by...

U.S. intelligence agencies issued general warnings around the world that Islamic State terrorists were planning to use trucks in attacks on gatherings of people, according to U.S. officials familiar with intelligence reports. Specific warnings were issued to allied intelligence services in Europe and Asia based on information gleaned from the Islamic State, indicating the terrorist group’s sympathizers would conduct attacks using large trucks in Christmas-related killing sprees.

The death toll for yesterday's truck attack at a Christmas Market in Berlin has now risen to 12 along with nearly 50 injured, some of whom are still in critical condition. Police in Berlin had arrested a Pakistani refugee (although there is no war in Pakistan) who arrived in Germany in 2015 and has been living in a migrant camp set up at a nearby vacant airport. Authorities reported that the refugee, who they identified as Naved B. age 23, had previously lied about his name when entering the country and was also arrested for sex crimes in July...

ISLAMIC State (ISIS) released a guide calling on lone-wolf jihadis to use lorries to target outdoor markets and festivals just a month before the fatal Berlin Christmas market terror attack. The twisted terror group's latest edition of its new monthly English-language propaganda magazine, Rumiyah, explained in detail how to use large trucks in terrorist attacks, targeting crowded areas, specifically calling on lone-wolf supporters to attack in the United States and Europe.   In the November edition of Rumiyah, which means Rome in Arabic in reference to ISIS's intent on capturing the Christian city, the sick publication told jihadis what kind...

KABUL, Afghanistan - Attackers fired rockets and machine guns at a pickup truck ferrying passengers to a northern Afghan town, killing 10 people including two children, a local commander said Friday. The passengers were riding in the vehicle from Samangan city when they were ambushed in Shamar in Samangan province, said Ahmad Khan, a local commander under Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, the Uzbek warlord who is a major force in the north. Khan said the pickup had likely been targeted because the attackers suspected an important commander was riding in the truck. An estimated 12 attackers fired rockets, Kalashnikovs and...