REDSTATE | Published January 4, 2025
New information continues to come in about the horrific New Year’s terror attack in New Orleans, which left at least 14 dead and dozens injured.
An Airbnb that the terrorist, 42-year-old ISIS convert Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had rented has come under intense scrutiny by authorities, and they are now saying that he deliberately tried to burn it down to conceal evidence.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, was staying at an Airbnb on Mandeville Street where bomb-making materials were found, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said in a joint statement. Similar materials were also found in Jabbar’s home in Houston, authorities said.
New Orleans firefighters responded to the rental property at around 5:20 a.m. on New Year’s Day, after the deadly attack on Bourbon Street. The ATF determined that Jabbar “was the only person who could have had access to the residence when the fire was set.”
“ATF also determined that Jabbar set a small fire in the hallway, and strategically placed accelerants throughout the house in his effort to destroy it and other evidence of his crime,” the statement said. “After Jabbar left the residence, the fire burned to a point that it extinguished itself, prior to spreading to other rooms.”
A Ring doorbell caught footage of the monster preparing for the attack:
CNN has secured exclusive doorbell camera footage that shows the New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, unloading his truck outside an Airbnb rental just hours before the tragic incident occurred. https://t.co/THpJ4j55SP pic.twitter.com/XQKPwFK4Qr
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It appears that Jabbar’s plan to set the place on fire failed, however, and authorities were still able to collect evidence.
When firefighters arrived at the scene, the fire was smoldering, which allowed for the recovery of evidence, authorities said, including bomb-making pre-cursors, as well as a device suspected of being made into a silencer.
Jabbar intended to use a transmitter that was found that was found in the F150 truck he used to plow into holiday revelers to detonate the two improvised-explosive devices he placed on Bourbon Street, authorities said.
Clothing and shell cases were also found, as well as terabytes worth of video and other data collected by city street cameras, law enforcement said. The evidence will be taken to the FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia for evaluation.
Meanwhile, as our Teri Christoph reported, authorities left the terrorist’s Houston home unguarded, and journalists wandered around inside unfettered.
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SOURCE: www.redstate.com
RELATED: New Orleans attacker acted alone, FBI now believes
BBC NEWS | Published January 4, 2025
The suspect in the New Orleans attack that killed 14 people on New Year’s Day is believed to have acted alone in a “premeditated and evil act,” the FBI has said.
The latest information is counter to that provided by the law enforcement agency earlier in the investigation, when it said it believed that multiple people were involved.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen, is now the sole suspect. He is believed to have driven a pick-up truck into a crowd on a busy New Orleans street, before exiting the vehicle and firing a weapon. He was shot dead by police at the scene.
The FBI says an Islamic State (IS) group flag was found inside the vehicle he was driving.
Two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were also found nearby, police said.
Surveillance footage viewed by police shows Jabbar placing each of those devices in coolers along the busy Bourbon Street in New Orleans, said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division.
Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Mr Raia clarified that based on the latest available evidence, Jabbar is believed to have acted alone.
He added that the investigation remains ongoing with officers chasing leads across the country.
“We have received just over 400 tips from the public,” he said, from people both in the state of Louisiana and elsewhere in the US. Officers are also reviewing hundreds of hours of surveillance footage, Mr Raia said.
A clearer timeline of the events leading up to the attack has since emerged, officials said.
Police believe that Jabbar rented a Ford F-150 pick-up truck in Houston, Texas on 30 December and drove it to New Orleans, Louisiana on the evening of 31 December.
That evening, Jabbar posted several videos on social media where he proclaimed his support for the Islamic State group, Mr Raia said.
There were five videos in total, timestamped from 01:29 to 03:02 local time.
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SOURCE: www.bbc.com
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