Sayfullo Saipov, who killed eight people in a truck attack in New York, did it "in the name of" so-called Islamic State, a police spokesman has said.

Nov.27.– Saipov is from Uzbekistan, a Central Asian state whose citizens have been involved in several major terror attacks lately. What is behind this?
Uzbeks were involved in the following major attacks:
1 January: A shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul that killed 39 people
3 April: A bomb at a metro station in St Petersburg that killed 14 people - carried out by an ethnic Uzbek from Kyrgyzstan
7 April: A truck attack on a street in Stockholm that killed four people
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