New Orleans attacker acted alone, supported Islamic State, FBI says
A U.S. Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, but acted alone in the attack that killed at least 14 people, the FBI said on Thursday.
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The FBI also said Jabbar traveled to New Orleans twice before, apparently to surveil the Bourbon Street area. Some observers, however, are jumping to too many conclusions. Because Jabbar declared his allegiance to Islamic State,
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Texas man who backed Islamic State acted alone in New Orleans attack, FBI says
On the morning of the attack, between 1:29 a.m. and 3:02 a.m., he posted five videos on Facebook in which he said he supported IS, the Islamic militant group with fighters in Iraq and Syria, the FBI said. The massacre in New Orleans’s famed Bourbon ...
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Man behind New Year’s attack visited New Orleans before, recorded video with smart glasses, FBI says
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the French Quarter with hands-free glasses, an FBI official said Sunday.
FBI releases timeline of suspect Shamsud-Dim Jabbar's New Orleans attack
As a portrait begins to emerge of the suspect behind the deadly New Orleans attack, federal investigators have laid out a timeline of events.