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    'Enemy combatant' talks to cops, reportedly says he was radicalized by Islamic State

    by Matt Pearce, Matt Hansen and Nina Agrawal, Los Angeles Times Nov 02, 2017 5 minutes

    NEW YORK - The suspect charged Wednesday in the first deadly terrorist attack in New York City since Sept. 11, 2001, became radicalized by watching Islamic State videos on his cellphone and struck on Halloween to kill as many people as possible, authorities said.

    Sayfullo Saipov, 29, was charged in federal court with supporting Islamic State extremists and vehicular violence after officials said he drove a rental truck down a busy riverfront bike path near the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan a day earlier, killing eight people and injuring at least a dozen. He was arrested after a police officer shot him in the abdomen.

    While hospitalized, Saipov - a trucker and an Uber driver who legally came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan in 2010 - reportedly

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