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NEW YORK (CNN) - About two years afore Sayfullo Saipov acclimated a busy barter to run bottomward cyclists and pedestrians in New York Tuesday, killing eight, authorities had been visiting agent rental businesses to advice owners admit apprehensive activity.
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"We went and did all-encompassing beat to the barter rental business," said John Miller, New York Police Administration agent abettor for intelligence and counterterrorism, afterwards an ISIS advertisement about two years ago mentioned New York's Thanksgiving Day Parade as a accessible ambition for a agent attack.
"We visited over 148 barter rental locations in this area. The accessible ones, U-Haul, Ryder, Home Depot ... and talked about apprehensive indicators, means to appear forward."
As alarm approach evolve, law administration admiral accept had to apprentice and adapt.
After baleful barter attacks in France and Germany aftermost year, Miller said the NYPD again those contacts with bounded barter rental companies.
"The industry has had a aerial akin of acquaintance on this amount from the NYPD," Miller said.
The administration has two programs -- NYPD SHIELD and Operation Nexus -- that advance approved acquaintance with New York breadth businesses and clandestine aegis admiral to altercate means terrorists may try to accomplishment firms like rental barter companies, according to Miller.
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Saipov was aggressive to backpack out Tuesday's advance afterwards watching ISIS videos and carefully followed the alarm group's playbook for an attack, according to a bent complaint.
"He appears to accept followed about absolutely to a 'T' the instructions that ISIS has put out in its amusing media channels before, with instructions to their followers on how to backpack out such an attack," Miller said.
While al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen, had alleged for agent attacks in the West alpha in 2010, it wasn't until ISIS leaders alleged for such operations three years ago that they began to action added regularly, CNN civic aegis analyst Peter Bergen wrote this week.
On October 22, Saipov, busy a barter from a Passaic, New Jersey, abundance that authorities articular as Home Depot to convenance authoritative turns advanced of this week's attack, according to the complaint.
On Tuesday, the 29-year-old Uzbekistan built-in went to the aforementioned abundance and busy the barter for two hours, with "no ambition of anytime abiding it," the certificate said.
It wasn't bright if the Home Depot abundance area Saipov busy the barter had been one of those visited by the NYPD.
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Miller said the NYPD additionally works with the Homeland Aegis Administration and added federal agencies to acquaintance barter rental companies alfresco New York. The Operation Nexus web folio said it involves a civic arrangement of businesses and that detectives accept visited added than 25,000 firms.
The Virginia-based Barter Renting and Leasing Association, or TRALA, which represents about 500 trucking companies throughout the country, said Thursday that its associates accept been accommodating on aegis issues with bounded and federal law administration for decades.
In addition, the affiliation and affiliate companies formed with Homeland Aegis to advance a adviser on "counterterrorism and aegis at barter rental and leasing businesses and, in particular, what could aggregate a 'red flag,'" the account said.
"TRALA associates angle in abounding abutment of federal, accompaniment and bounded law administration agencies and their efforts to anticipate the use of trucks for actionable and/or adverse purposes," said Jake Jacoby, admiral and CEO. "Further, we will abide to assignment with law administration agencies to anticipate these types of acts in the future."
While Saipov allegedly began planning the advance a year ago and absitively to use a barter two months ago, a federal Transportation Aegis Administration address said he bare little preparation.
"Vehicle-ramming attacks are advised unsophisticated, in that a perpetrator could backpack out such an advance with basal planning and training," said the TSA report, appear in May.
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"It is acceptable that agitator groups will abide to animate ambitious attackers to apply artless approach such as vehicle-ramming, back these types of attacks abbreviate the abeyant for abortive apprehension and could administer accumulation fatalities if successful."
In fact, terrorists accept agitated out 17 accepted agent ramming attacks common from 2014 to 2017, causing about 200 deaths and added than 600 injuries, according to the TSA report, which included aegis tips for barter rental companies.
Such attacks are simple to backpack out and abundantly unstoppable, according to Bergen. Closing admission to cartage to anywhere there are crowds would be an absurd assignment in awash Western cities.
"What was already a rarely acclimated tactic has now become a tactic of best for terrorists who are active in the West, because these attacks artlessly crave the rental or acquirement of a acceptable agent and admission to crowds of people," Bergen wrote.
A barter rental at Home Depot costs $19 for the aboriginal 75 minutes, requires the bedfellow to be at atomic 21, authority a accepted US or Canadian driver's authorization and pay with a accurate acclaim card, according to the aggregation website.
"As far as the barter rental goes, those interviews are actuality conducted and ... there was absolutely annihilation abnormal abundant to account anyone to call," Miller said.
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