The FBI has changed its stance on the New Year's attack in which a truck drove into a crowd, killing over a dozen people. They now say the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, acted alone, reversing their earlier claim that he may have had accomplices. Jabbar posted videos online aligning himself with ISIS and expressing a desire to kill.
The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revellers acted alone, the FBI said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in carrying out a deadly attack being investigated as an act of terrorism inspired by the Islamic State group. 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 said he had joined the militant group 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. 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, killing more than a dozen people, including an 18-year-old woman who had ambitions of becoming a nurse.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 investigation. But as of Thursday morning, no additional arrests were known to have been made, and it was unclear if the FBI was still actively looking for more suspect
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