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It doesn't booty a firearm or a bomb to wreak havoc. All it takes is a driver's license, a accurate acclaim card, some affidavit of allowance — and as little as $19.
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The advance on a beach bike aisle in New York City was agitated out with a auto barter that home contractors or do-it-yourself handymen can get with no accomplishments analysis and little anguish it will accession red flags amid law enforcement.
Eight bodies were dead and 12 actively afflicted in the Tuesday afternoon advance when, authorities say, Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old from Uzbekistan, barreled forth the aisle for added than a dozen blocks.
Angela Hrdlicka, a above Secret Service abettor who is now a clandestine aegis consultant, said for the attackers, the rentals are a absolute compound to backpack out attacks: accessible to get, bargain and with about no vetting.
"It's accessible to do and it's very, actual difficult to avert against," she said.
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Home Depot admiral said in an email to The Associated Press that it does not awning renters. All of its food crave a accurate driver's license, allowance advice and a acclaim agenda deposit. Other rental companies, including Hertz, Enterprise and U-Haul, acknowledgment agnate guidelines on their websites. In best cases, the amount to hire a barter from Home Depot or U-Haul is abundant cheaper than a rental car.
Matthew Harrigan, a Home Depot spokesman, said there's no anticipation at this time to change how the aggregation vets bodies who hire their vehicles.
John Miller, agent abettor for New York City Police, said Wednesday that authorities are alive to put calm a timeline of Saipov's abode arch up to the attack.
New York City has a affairs alleged "Project Shield" in which law administration works with businesses to advice analyze abeyant threats. It wasn't anon accepted if the abundance area Saipov busy the agent had been one of visited by authorities. So far in this case, Miller said, "there was absolutely annihilation abnormal abundant to account anybody to call."
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Vehicles accept been acclimated in array of alarm attacks about the world, including the July 2016 advance in Nice, France, back a ample burden barter collection into a army on a promenade. Eighty-six bodies were killed. In March, a Hyundai auto rammed into a army on Westminster Bridge in London, killing five.
In the United States, terrorists acclimated a Ryder van to bang a bomb at the Apple Trade Center in 1993. And in 1995, a busy Ryder barter was acclimated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma City bombing that dead 168.
"It doesn't accept to be a big vehicle," Hrdlicka said. "You can mow bottomward aloof as abounding bodies about with a minivan and a army like that. If you started authoritative them do accomplishments checks on rental cartage they could aloof abduct one or borrow their neighbors or use their own claimed vehicle. That's not activity to fix the abeyant risk."
Anthony Schilling, an accessory assistant of citizenry aegis at the University of New Hampshire who's been complex in aegis back the 1970s, alleged it the daydream book in a abandoned wolf attack. Cartage are accessible to hire and aren't accountable to abysmal accomplishments investigations. "Even if you accept a record, you can still hire a vehicle."
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Bruce Alexander, a aegis and agitation expert, said the Apple Trade Center and Oklahoma City bombings accepted decades ago how accessible it is to use these cartage for annihilative purposes. Those attacks helped accession acquaintance about the accessible means one can "weaponize" frequently accessible tools. But there's consistently a acclimation act.
Companies appetite to ensure the customer's acquaintance is as accessible and simple as possible, and that vetting of barter is time- and cost-effective.
"It is actual difficult to appear up with a applicable cost-effective archetypal that additionally fits aural the constraints of civilian liberties and is additionally applied from a business standpoint," Alexander said.
Published at 1:19 PM EDT on Nov 1, 2017 | Updated at 3:41 PM EDT on Nov 1, 2017
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