Port Attack

From the BBC:

"New York Port Authority attack: Man held after Manhattan blast"

A man is being held after an attempted terror attack at New York City's main bus terminal.  "Terrorists won't win," Mayor Bill de Blasio said after a blast at the Port Authority terminal in Manhattan during the morning rush hour on Monday. The suspect, Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant, was injured by a "low-tech explosive device" strapped to his body, officials say. Four other people suffered minor wounds when it blew up in an underpass. A photo circulating on social media shows a man, said to be Akayed Ullah, lying on the ground with his clothes ripped and lacerations on his upper body. Mayor De Blasio said he was believed to have acted alone.  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said: "This is New York. The reality is that we are a target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy, against freedom. "We have the Statue of Liberty in our harbour and that makes us an international target."  The explosion occurred at about 07:30 (12:30 GMT). Andre Rodriguez, 62, told the New York Times: "I was going through the turnstile. It sounded like an explosion, and everybody started running." Another eyewitness, Alicja Wlodkowski, told Reuters news agency that she had seen a group of about 60 people running. "A woman fell. And nobody even went to stop and help her because the panic was so scary," she said. Nearby subway stations were evacuated, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal temporarily shut. It is the biggest and busiest bus terminal in the world, serving more than 65 million people a year.

^ I'm sure this attack is part of the same group of ISIS terrorists who have received their "pink slips" from Iraq and Syria and are now attacking the world randomly (ie: Germany, Russia, France, Belgium, England, the US, etc.) It would be nice if we could just build a wall like the Israelis did with the West Bank (after their wall was built suicide bombers within Israel declined sharply) but with Canada letting so many in-vetted refugees into their country and the US-Canadian border mostly unguarded the terrorists simply have to pretend to be a refugee, enter Canada and then walk down into the US. This attacker was legally in the US and so maybe we need tighter vetting. I know some people are going to get all PC over this - they seem to only care about what something is called rather than the fact people were wounded and could have been killed - but when the vast majority of terrorist attacks around the world in nearly two decades have been by Muslim extremists you should focus on them first. To not do so would be irresponsible and deadly. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42312293