An ISIS-inspired would-be suicide bomber set off a homemade explosive device at the Port Authority Bus Terminal subway station Monday morning, seriously wounding himself and injuring three others, law enforcement sources said.
The man — a 27-year-old Brooklyn man identified by high ranking police sources as Akayed Ullah — had wires attached to him and a 5-inch metal pipe bomb and battery pack strapped to his midsection as he walked through the Manhattan transit hub.
The man partially detonated the device, which he was carrying under the right side of his jacket, prematurely inside the passageway to the A, C and E trains at Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street around 7:40 a.m., sources said.
Police quickly took the man into custody.
Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that the man was inspired by ISIS and possibly born in Bangladesh.
Bratton, who said the man had been living in the US for seven years, “was supposedly setting the device off in the name of ISIS.”
“So, definitely a terrorist attack, definitely intended,” Bratton said.
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Always be skeptical of first reports, but NYC Port Authority incident appears to be jihadist-terror-related. https://t.co/cPVnK7leTa
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 11, 2017
The New York bombing is the 19th jihadist terror attack in U.S. since June 2014. The majority of were committed by US citizens (71%). The US has the second highest number of attacks in the West, after France with 23. @ISPI_Terrorism
— Program On Extremism (@gwupoe) December 11, 2017
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