NYC truck terrorist wants ISIS flag displayed in hospital room

The man accused of carrying out the truck attack in New York City on Tuesday had reportedly asked to display the Islamic State flag in his hospital room where he is being treated for a gunshot wound.

Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, an Uzbek national, is currently being held in custody at the Bellevue Hospital after he was shot in the stomach by an NYPD officer at Chambers Street in Tribeca on Tuesday afternoon.

According to the Evening Standard, the 29-year-old terror suspect remained loyal to ISIS and boasted that he "felt good" after carrying out the attack, which resulted in the deaths of eight people, including six foreign tourists.

At least 11 people were injured in the attack, including one person who needed a double amputation due to serious injuries.

Saipov is facing federal terrorism charges, which carry the death penalty, and is currently being held without bail.

Sources have said that the suspect appeared "proud" when he was interrogated by the police on Tuesday night.

New York City officials stated at a press conference on Wednesday that Saipov had replicated previous ISIS attacks involving trucks and he followed the terror group's strategy that has been released on social media, "to a T."

On Wednesday, Deputy NYPD Commissioner John Miller confirmed Saipov's allegiance to ISIS and noted that he had been planning the attack for weeks.

"He appears to have followed almost exactly to a T the instructions that ISIS has put out on its social media channels before, with instructions to its followers on how to carry out the attack," Miller said, according to Daily Mail.

Saipov, who had acquired a valid diversity immigrant visa, initially lived in Cincinnati with family and friends, and had spent time in Florida and Ohio before he moved to New Jersey.

Neighbors and individuals who had come into contact with him had noted that he had exhibited radical behavior for a long time, but he became more intense in the last year.

A Florida imam, identified only as Abdula, said that Saipov had displayed distressing behavior before he went to New York.

"I used to tell him, 'Hey, you are too much emotional.' He did not learn religion properly. That's the main disease in the Muslim community," the imam said.

Saipov, who is living in the U.S. with his wife and three children, had pleaded guilty in August 2012 to two traffic violations in Pennsylvania.

In 2016, a warrant has been issued for his arrest after he failed to pay $400 back in property taxes and refused to appear in court. Court records have revealed that he was served the warrant in his Florida home n Tampa last year before he moved to New Jersey.