Analysts Say New Orleans Attack Demonstrates ISIS Persisting as a Toxic Magnet
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He turned his rented Ford F-150 Lightning pickup truck into Bourbon Street, drove along the sidewalk, and plowed into a crowd, only moments after the FBI said he posted the final video at 3:02 a.m.
The FBI released photos of surveillance footage that shows Shamsud-Din Jabbar an hour before he drove a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Jan. 1, 2025.
FBI via AP
The pickup truck crashed to a halt, and Jabbar was gunned down by police officers after he had opened fire on them. A distinctive black ISIS flag fluttered from the back of the truck.
Moign Khawaja, professor of security studies at Dublin City University, told The Epoch Times that there was a common pattern with so-called lone-wolf attackers such as Jabbar.
Khawaja said that such people often suffer from personal problems—Jabbar had recently gotten divorced—and spend too much time on their computer consuming extremist content. “One thing leads to the other, and here we are,” he said.
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