U.S.: Louisiana

Holidays

New Orleans attacker’s bombs were designed to cause ‘absolute carnage’ By making a bomb with the powerful explosive RDX, Shamsud-Din Jabbar was mimicking the tactics of terrorist groups operating in the Middle East, experts say.

January 8, 2025 and   

(NBC) The New Orleans truck attacker built two bombs using what investigators believe was an explosive so powerful that they could have sprayed shrapnel hundreds of yards and potentially killed or wounded hundreds of people. The bombs did not detonate on New […]

Holidays

Chemical used for explosives found in Texas storage locker linked to New Orleans attacker, authorities say Bottles of sulfuric acid were found in a unit northwest of Houston during a search by the FBI and the Harris County Sheriff's Office.

January 7, 2025 , and   

(NBC) A common chemical used for explosives was discovered in a Texas storage locker linked to the Army veteran who killed 14 people and injured more than two dozen others when he plowed into New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, law enforcement […]

Holidays

Newly released images show IEDs New Orleans suspect attempted to detonate The suspect is believed to have hidden the IEDs in coolers prior to the attack.

January 6, 2025 , and   

(ABC) Investigators continue to uncover more details about the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans and the suspect’s apparent plot to detonate explosives in addition to the deadly truck-ramming incident. ABC News has obtained never-before-seen images of the IEDs discovered after […]

Holidays

‘I joined ISIS’: The New Orleans attacker’s secret radicalization Recordings and interviews detail Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s growing discontent with American society and increasing isolation even within his local Muslim community.

January 4, 2025 , , and   

(NY Times) His electric truck was already headed toward New Orleans, traveling from his trailer home outside Houston and past the twinkling oil refineries to the east, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar began capturing a video on his phone in the dark. “I wanted […]

Holidays

New Orleans attack could embolden ISIS to radicalize other Americans, experts say Shamsud-Din Jabbar declared allegiance to the Islamic State before the Bourbon Street attack

January 2, 2025   

(Fox) Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s New Year’s massacre in New Orleans, carried out with a pickup truck flying an ISIS flag, could embolden the terrorist organization to radicalize more Americans, experts told Fox News Digital. Jabbar’s younger half-brother, Abdur Rahim-Jabbar, told Fox News Digital […]

Clerics & Preachers

At New Orleans terrorist’s local mosque, imam says Hitler killed Jews ‘because of the economy thing, they were in control of the economy’ Jews 'have many problems, but that's one of the main problems — they like to take control of the economy,' Eiad Soudan said during 2023 event

January 2, 2025   

(Free Beacon) Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Islamic terrorist who killed 14 people in the New Year’s Eve attack on New Orleans, lived near a Houston mosque led by a radical imam who once preached that Hitler massacred Jews because “they like to take […]

Holidays

Refer FBI to CAIR, New Orleans attacker’s local mosque tells members 'It is deeply troubling and wrong for this local Houston mosque to refer all questions to CAIR, a Jew-hating group which praised other Islamist terrorist attacks,' Morton Klein told JNS.

January 2, 2025   

(JNS) Masjid Bilal, the local Houston mosque near the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, has been receiving a good deal of unwanted press attention since the 42-year-old drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, […]

Holidays

Driver in New Orleans terrorist attack acted alone and was ‘100% inspired by ISIS,’ FBI says Shamsud-Din Jabbar originally planned to hurt his family and friends but pivoted when he felt news headlines wouldn’t focus on the 'war between the believers and the disbelievers,' the FBI said.

January 2, 2025   

(NBC) The driver behind the deadly New Year’s terrorist attack in New Orleans posted videos online proclaiming his support for the Islamic State terrorist group before he rammed his truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street, killing at least 14, […]

Holidays

Authorities warned of vehicle-ramming attack danger in US during holiday season Multiple people were killed in a New Year's ramming attack in New Orleans.

January 1, 2025 and   

(ABC) Multiple people were killed and dozens injured after a man drove a pickup truck through a crowd celebrating New Year’s in New Orleans early Wednesday, authorities said. The horrific attack came after authorities expressed concerns about vehicle-ramming during large outdoor events […]

Holidays

New Orleans raises specter of persistent ISIS threat The Assad regime’s collapse in Syria could offer an opportunity for ISIS militants to gain more supporters and operating space, experts say.

January 1, 2025   

(NBC) An ISIS flag allegedly found in the truck that Shamsud-Din Jabbar used in the lethal car-ramming attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year’s Day highlights the persistent danger posed by the terrorist group, which continues to churn out online propaganda to try […]