Inside US Army's PSYOP unit that has uncomfortable ties to Cybertruck bomber and New Orleans terrorist
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The men behind the shocking explosion of a Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas and the terrorist truck attack in New Orleans share a curious link. Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, 37, whose Tesla vehicle rained fireworks and steel shrapnel outside the hotel, and Army veteran Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, who killed 14 people with his truck, worked at the US military's Fort Bragg.
![[US Army Veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar plowed his pickup truck into a crowd of people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/22/93654331-14248367-US_Army_Veteran_and_suspected_terrorist_Shamsud_Din_Jabbar_42_pl-m-28_1735945053927.jpg)
Fort Bragg, now known as Fort Liberty, is home to the 4th Psychological Operations Group (POG), which conducts 'influence activities to target psychological vulnerabilities and create or intensify fissures, confusion, and doubt in adversary organizations.'.
![[Above, investigators swarm Jabbar's truck in New Orleans after he plowed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year. His attack killed at least 14 people and injuring dozens more]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93643183-14248367-The_driver_who_plowed_into_pedestrians_celebrating_the_New_Year_-a-45_1735938509735.jpg)
'We use all available means of dissemination – from sensitive and high tech to low-tech, to no-tech, and methods from overt, to clandestine, to deception,' the organization's official website reads. After the 10 day assessment, soldiers are put through 41 weeks of physically and mentally demanding training, called the PSYOP Qualification Course.
![[Above, Livelsberger's Tesla Cybertruck as it exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel early on New Year's Day, Wednesday, January 1, 2025]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/21/93720841-14248367-This_image_provided_by_Alcides_Antunes_shows_a_Tesla_Cybertruck_-a-46_1735938522704.jpg)
The last few months see soldiers learn how to use propaganda and other methods to influence the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of a target audience, often in an enemy territory. While the FBI's deputy assistant director, Chris Raia, emphasized on Thursday that investigators have found 'no definitive link' between Livelsberger and Jabbar, that hasn't stopped others from connecting seemingly ominous dots through Fort Bragg.
![[Both Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, whose Tesla vehicle rained fireworks and steel shrapnel outside the Las Vegas Trump hotel, and Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, who killed 14 people with his vehicle, worked at the US Army's Fort Bragg - now renamed Fort Liberty]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/03/22/93723287-14248367-Both_Green_Beret_Matthew_Livelsberger_whose_Tesla_vehicle_rained-a-22_1735942572412.jpg)
