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Trump Calls For 'Quick Justice' Following Terror Attack That Left 8 Dead In Lower Manhattan

NEW YORK (CBS/AP) — President Donald Trump is calling for "quick justice" and an end to a visa lottery program after authorities say an Uzbek immigrant killed eight people by mowing them down along a bike path in Lower Manhattan in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Investigators, meanwhile, were at the hospital bedside of 29-year-old Sayfullo Saipov, working to extract information about the attack Tuesday afternoon near the World Trade Center memorial that also left 12 people injured, a law enforcement official said.

The official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity, said Saipov was lucid after surgery for wounds suffered when he was shot by police.

Source: ISIS Note Found Near Truck Used In NYC Terror Attack That Left 8 Dead 

"He did this in the name of ISIS," John Miller, deputy police commissioner for intelligence, said at a news conference, citing handwritten notes left by Saipov in his rented Home Depot pickup.

Miller said the notes, written in Arabic, essentially said ISIS "would endure forever."

Federal terrorism charges have been filed against Saipov.

On Wednesday, Trump called for an end to the diversity visa lottery program that Saipov entered the United States under in 2010.

"I am today starting the process of terminating the diversity lottery program. I'm going to ask Congress to initiate work to end the program," said Trump, adding that he wants to end "chain migration."

"We have to get much tougher, we have to get much smarter and we have to get much less politically correct. We're so politically correct we're afraid to do anything," said Trump.

Trump called for "quick justice" following the deadly terror attack.

"We need quick justice and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now because what we have right now is a joke and it's a laughingstock and we wonder why so much of this stuff takes place," said the president.

Trump also said he would consider sending the terror suspect to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.

In the past few years, the ISIS has been exhorting followers to use vehicles or other close-at-hand means of killing people in their home countries. England, France and Germany have seen deadly vehicle attacks in the past year or so.

"It appears that Mr. Saipov had been planning this for a number of weeks," Miller said. "He appears to have followed, almost exactly to a T, the instructions that ISIS has put out in its social media channels before with instructions to its followers on how to carry out such an attack."

Miller said Saipov had never been the subject of a New York police investigation but appears to have some links to people who have been investigated.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the suspect was a "depraved coward" who tried to create terror.

"He was radicalized domestically," he said on CNN. "It's not the first time. It's a global phenomenon now."

In a number of recent extremist attacks around the world, the assailants were found to have been inspired but not actually directed by the Islamic State, and in some cases never even made contact with the group.

On the morning after the bloodshed, city leaders vowed New York would be not intimidated, and they commended New Yorkers for going ahead with Halloween festivities on Wednesday night.

They also said Sunday's New York City Marathon, with 50,000 participants and some 2 million spectators anticipated, will go on as scheduled.

"We will not be cowed. We will not be thrown off by anything," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

While the mayor said there have been no credible threats of any additional attacks, police announced the deployment of heavy-weapon teams and other stepped-up security along the marathon route, in the subways and other sites, and New York Police Commissioner James O'Neill urged people to be vigilant and tell police if they see "something that doesn't look right."

In Tuesday's attack, Saipov hurtled down the bike path, running down cyclists and pedestrians, then crashed into a school bus, authorities said. He was shot in the abdomen after he jumped out of the vehicle brandishing air guns and yelling "God is great!" in Arabic, they said.

De Blasio called it "a cowardly act of terror."

The dead consisted of five people from Argentina, one from Germany, and two Americans, authorities said. Nine people remained hospitalized in serious or critical condition, with injuries that included lost limbs and head, chest and neck wounds.

A roughly two-mile stretch of highway in lower Manhattan was shut down for the investigation. Authorities also converged on a New Jersey apartment building and a van in a parking lot at a New Jersey Home Depot.

Trump railed against ISIS on Twitter and declared "Enough!" and "NOT IN THE U.S.A.!"

On Wednesday, the president took a swipe at the Senate's top Democrat, saying Saipov came to the U.S. under a visa lottery program — "a Chuck Schumer beauty." Trump urged tougher immigration measures based on merit.

Schumer, who represents New York, said in a statement that he has always believed that immigration "is good for America."

New Yorkers woke to a heavy police presence Wednesday outside the World Trade Center and at other locations around the city.

Runners and cyclists who use the popular bike path for their pre-dawn exercise were diverted away from the crime scene by officers stationed at barricades just north of where the rampage began.

Dave Hartie, 57, who works in finance, said he rides his bike along the path every morning.

"It's great to be in the city and have that kind of peace," he said. As for the attack, he said, "It's the messed-up world we live in these days. Part of me is surprised it doesn't happen more often."

The slight, bearded Saipov is from heavily Muslim Uzbekistan and came to the U.S. legally in 2010, police said. He has a Florida driver's license but was apparently living in New Jersey, they said.

Records show Saipov was a commercial truck driver who formed a pair of businesses in Ohio. He had also driven for Uber.

Mirrakhmat Muminov, 38, of Stow, Ohio, said he knew Saipov because they were both Uzbek truck drivers. He portrayed Saipov as an argumentative young man whose work was falling apart and who "was not happy with his life."

Muminov said Saipov lost his insurance on his truck after his rates shot up because of a few traffic tickets, and companies stopped hiring him. Muminov said he heard from Saipov's friends that Saipov's truck engine blew up a few months ago in New Jersey.

Muminov said Saipov would get into arguments with his friends and family, tangling over even small things, such as going to a picnic with the Uzbek community.

"He had the habit of disagreeing with everybody. He was never part of the community. He was always alone, no respect for elders, no respect for community," Muminov said.

He said he and Saipov would sometimes argue about politics and world affairs, including about Israel and Palestine. He said Saipov never spoke about ISIS, but he could tell he held radical views.

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