Despite being the setting for the worst Islamic terrorist attack in our history, New York has done pretty well after 9/11. And that's largely because the NYPD and, to a lesser extent, the FBi, were on the ball.
The left hated the tactics that they used. But those tactics worked. The NYPD broke up plots that the Obama Feds didn't want to touch. And the leftist allies of Islamic terror did their best to undermine the NYPD's ability to engage in surveilance and break up Islamic terror plots.
We don't know if the left's neutering of the NYPD led to this attack. But it couldn't have helped.
The Islamic terrorist attack in Manhattan strongly resembles the Car Jihad tactics we've seen in America and Europe. Here's what we know so far.
The driver of a rental truck drove down a busy bicycle path in Manhattan near the World Trade Center, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in what officials said was an "act of terror."
After crashing the truck into a school bus, the suspect exited the vehicle while displaying imitation firearms and was shot in the abdomen by police, according to the NYPD.
That's almost identical to a number of European Jihadist attacks apart from the bike path. Right down to the fake gun.
New York City officials aren't even bothering to deny it. Which tells you all you need to know.
The incident is being investigated as terrorism, officials said. Witnesses reported the suspect was yelling "Allahu Akbar," according to four law enforcement sources. The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force is taking over the lead of the investigation.
The statements made by the driver moments after leaving the truck and the method of the attack were consistent with other terrorist attacks, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O'Neill said.
Good odds are he admitted it. That'll make it harder for the ACLU and the usual crowd.