The FBI has reversed its previous stance, stating that the New Orleans truck attack was carried out by Shamsud-Din Jabbar alone. Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers, killing 14 people. The attack is being investigated as an act of terrorism inspired by the Islamic State group.
The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in carrying out the deadly attack. The FBI also revealed that the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S.
citizen from Texas, posted five videos on his Facebook account in the hours before the attack in which he aligned himself with IS and told viewers that he had joined the militant group before last summer. This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act,” said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division. The attack killed 14 people, including an 18-year-old woman who had ambitions of becoming a nurse. Authorities initially put the death toll at 15, which included Jabbar, who was fatally shot in a firefight with police. Officials had said Wednesday that they were seeking additional potential suspects in the attack, which occurred when Jabbar steered around a police blockade and plowed into a crowd. But Raia said the current assessment is that he acted alone, without any conspirators. Authorities recovered a black flag of the Islamic State in the truck, and President Joe Biden said he was told by the FBI that Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage that showed he was motivated by the militant group and expressed a desire to kill. He was shot to death by police, and the FBI said Wednesday that it believed he did not act alone. Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the French Quarter. Officials fanned out to serve search warrants and spent hours at a Houston-area home thought to be connected to the investigatio
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