Investigators said they were also looking into a trip to the Philippines that the father-and-son attackers took last month. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Terrorism”
Vance Criticizes Mamdani’s Comments About Islamophobia After 9/11
By Gotham Rex on October 26, 2025
Zohran Mamdani said the vice president’s attack on social media was one in a series of “cheap jokes about Islamophobia.” Source: New York Times
Manuel Trujillo, Who Helped New Yorkers Heal After 9/11, Dies at 80
By Gotham Rex on October 18, 2025
As Bellevue Hospital’s director of psychiatry, he guided rescue workers and grieving families through trauma when terrorists attacked in 2001. Source: New York Times
Hochul Attacks Trump for Withholding $34 Million in Security Funding
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2025
The New York governor criticized the Trump administration for withholding federal grant money New York relies on to fund counterterrorism efforts on mass transit. Source: New York Times
Trump Cuts to Counterterrorism Funds for New York Reach $187 Million
By Gotham Rex on September 30, 2025
Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York asked that the funding be restored, accusing the Trump administration of “walking away from the fight against terrorism.” Source: New York Times
Najibullah Zazi Is Imprisoned Again After Donating to Co-Conspirators
By Gotham Rex on September 14, 2025
Najibullah Zazi admitted plotting an attack on the New York City subway with two friends, and then testified against them. Now he is behind bars after putting money in their prison accounts. Source: New York Times
Man Accused in 2015 Terror Attacks in Mali Is Extradited to the U.S.
By Gotham Rex on December 10, 2022
Fawaz Ould Ahmed Ould Ahemeid was brought to the United States on Friday and appeared on Saturday before a federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, prosecutors said. Source: New York Times
Allen Kay, 77, Dies; Coined ‘If You See Something, Say Something’
By Gotham Rex on December 2, 2022
He created many memorable commercials, including one featuring a monk who works miracles with a Xerox copier. His most notable slogan helped save lives. Source: New York Times
The Elusive Dream of Owning a Home in New York City
By Gotham Rex on November 29, 2022
For many middle- and working-class New Yorkers, it’s an even more distant possibility than it used to be. Source: New York Times
French Cement Company to Pay $780 Million Over Payoffs to ISIS
By Gotham Rex on October 18, 2022
The Justice Department’s deal with the company, Lafarge, is one of the largest penalties a private corporation has paid for providing material support to a terrorist organization. Source: New York Times
The School Shooting Is Fake. Can It Prepare an Officer for a Real One?
By Gotham Rex on September 24, 2022
A $50 million facility in upstate New York is trying to teach officers the thing they’ll need most during the next mass shooting: bravery. Source: New York Times
How the U.S. Let 20 Million Monkeypox Vaccine Doses Expire
By Gotham Rex on August 1, 2022
At the start of the monkeypox outbreak the U.S. stockpile contained just 2,400 doses of vaccine, a far cry from the more than 20 million it once held. Source: New York Times
Kathy Boudin, Radical Imprisoned in a Fatal Robbery, Dies at 78
By Gotham Rex on May 1, 2022
She had a role in the Brink’s heist by the Weather Underground that left two police officers dead. But she became a model prisoner and, after being freed, helped former inmates. Source: New York Times
Inside the N.Y.P.D. Manhunt for the Brooklyn Subway Shooter
By Gotham Rex on April 16, 2022
Witnesses, video, police accounts and court records depict a troubled man’s carefully planned attack, and the lucky breaks he seized to melt back into the city. Source: New York Times
U.S. Charges Ex-Taliban Commander in Killing of 3 Soldiers in ’08 Attack
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2021
The man, Haji Najibullah, was charged last year with kidnapping an American journalist and two Afghan nationals months after the deadly assault. Source: New York Times