NEW Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar created a bomb factory in his scruffy Texas trailer — where cops found a Quran left open on a passage about “slaying” in the name of Allah. FBI agents raided the ramshackle home of the Islamic State-inspired nut and found a bomb-making workbench in a bedroom filled chemicals that can be used in explosives.
![[A Quran was found opened on the desk]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/personal-items-including-copies-quran-961296259.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Other bomb-making paraphernalia seen in the Houston trailer include tools, an eye-protection visor and weighing scales,. The home has been left disarray with the gate door hanging on its hinges following the FBI raid. One bedroom was filled with children’s toys and bunk beds, while the main bedroom had an Arabic keffiyeh scarf hanging on a clothes rack.
![[A workbench with bomb-making materials were found in the trailer]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/personal-items-including-copies-quran-961296247.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
In the living area a Quran is seen propped up on top of a bookshelf acting as a centre-piece. The holy book was left open on a passage reading, “…they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”. The passage, Verse 9:111 of the Quran, urges Muslims to take responsibility to kill Allah’s enemies and to be willing to die.
![[Shamsud-Din Jabbar is suspected of killing 14 people in New Orleans]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/2020-photograph-part-new-wanted-961145963_bbba1b.jpg?strip=all&w=723)
Jabbar’s shelves are filled with several other Islamic texts and religious materials and a prayer rug is rolled up nearby. Neighbours said Texas-born Jabbar left the property on New Year's Eve, telling them his lease was up and he was moving to New Orleans.
![[The home was raided by the FBI after the suspected terror attack]](https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/01/crescent-peak-drive-houston-last-961302142.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
