Former New York Police Department commissioner Ray Kelly said the US should brace for more possible terror attacks.
In an interview on the ‘Cats Roundtable’ radio show on Sunday, he said more ISIS-inspired bloodbaths, such as last week’s Halloween truck attack in lower Manhattan, were to be expected.
‘This is the reality that we are going to have to live with,’ Kelly said,
‘The terrorist attack on Halloween was terrible, but it is the type of thing that is so easy to do by these Islamic radicals that unfortunately we are going to see more of it.’
Former New York Police Department commissioner Ray Kelly (pictured, August 2017) said the US should brace for more possible terror attacks
Kelly also added that the internet accessibility of materials could inspire these sorts of attacks (Pictured, authorities investigate the Home Depot truck used to kill eight and injure 12)
Kelly also added that the internet accessibility of materials could inspire these sorts of attacks.
‘You try to identify these folks as much as possible with intelligence information, but now we know they are using encryption. The lone wolves are using encryption,’ he said on the show.
However, he praised the country for deflecting any similar attack on US soil since the attacks on September 11.
‘I wouldn’t do any sort of radical change [in policy]. More of the same. We’ve done a pretty job since 9/11,’ he said.
Sayfullo Saipov, 29, is accused of using a rented Home Depot truck to kill eight people on Halloween and injure 12 others along the bike path of the West Side Highway.
An Uzbekistan immigrant who had been living in New Jersey, Saipov was charged the next day with committing the attack in the name of the Islamic State militant group. He faces the death penalty.
Sayfullo Saipov, 29 (pictured), an Uzbekistan immigrant who had been living in New Jersey, is accused of using a rented Home Depot truck to kill eight people on Halloween and injure 12 others along the bike path of the West Side Highway
Five of the eight killed were in a group of ten friends from Argentina on vacation. Two were American men and the other was a Belgian mother of two (Pictured, police secure the scene at a bike path on Houston Street)
A federal law enforcement source told CBS News that a note was found in Saipov’s truck that made reference to ISIS. He has been charged and is now facing death (Pictured, Saipov is arrested after being shot in the abdomen by NYPD on October 31)
Five of the eight killed were in a group of ten friends from Argentina on vacation in New York to celebrate their high school reunion, before they perished in the terror attack Wednesday.
They have been identified as Ariel Erlij, Hernán Mendoza, Diego Angelini, Alejandro Pagnucco and Hernán Ferruchi. All were 47, except for Erlij, who was 48.
Also killed were Darren Drake, 32, who was biking between work meetings to try to lose weight and was hit; Nicholas Cleves, 23, a recent college graduate from Manhattan; and Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, a mother of two from Roeselare in West Flanders, Belgium.