(1) PATERSON, N.J. ― Police have identified 29-year-old Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov as the suspected driver who plowed a Home Depot rental pickup into a bike path in lower Manhattan on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least eight people and injuring at least 12 more. He is a self-described member of the Islamic State, and was charged Wednesday with one count of material support to a terrorist organization and violence and destruction of a motor vehicle. The details surrounding Saipov’s time in the United States remained murky in the hours after the attack. He emigrated legally from Uzbekistan in 2010, first getting his bearings with family friends in Ohio, and has reportedly lived in several states since.

(2) Saipov apparently had been planning his attack for several weeks and acted in the name of ISIS, John Miller, the New York Police Department deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism, said Wednesday during a news conference. Saipov ― who was not previously the subject of an FBI or NYPD investigation ― may have “touched subjects of other investigations,” Miller said. Police found multiple knives in the vehicle, in addition to two imitation weapons on the scene, Miller added. The department said the suspect left notes indicating his belief that ISIS would “endure forever.” While recovering from a gunshot wound at a hospital in New York, Saipov asked investigators if he could display ISIS flags in his room, according to a complaint released by the United States Attorney Southern District of New York. In court papers, prosecutors noted, Saipov said “he felt good about what he had done.” The suspect had planned to put ISIS flags on his vehicle but later thought better of it, afraid it would draw attention to him, the complaint says.

(3) The Associated Press notes Saipov’s cellphones contained about 90 videos and 3,800 photos, many related to ISIS. The images included content of ISIS prisoners being beheaded, shot or run over by a tank. President Donald Trump referred to Saipov as a “very sick and deranged person.” New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the suspect had been radicalized in the U.S. Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, the president tweeted that Saipov “SHOULD GET THE DEATH PENALTY!”

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Vocabulary notes

Task 2

Read the text again and find equivalents of the following Russian word combinations and sentences; note the use of the grammatical forms in brackets:

Task 3

Discuss the following questions:

Task 4

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Section 2

Task 1