Link between New Orleans attack and Cybertruck explosion ‘investigated by police’
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Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspected terrorist in the New Orleans attack that left 15 people dead, joined ISIS months before ramming a truck into a crowd of revellers celebrating New Year’s Eve. The US Army veteran, who was born in Texas, was a lone wolf who did not act on orders of the terrorist group.
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The FBI revealed he posted five videos on his Facebook account just hours before the crash in which he aligned himself with IS and said he had joined the militant group last summer. Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counter-terrorism division, told a press conference that Jabbar was initially planning to harm his family and friends.
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But the 42-year-old was concerned the news headlines would not focus on the ‘war between the believers and disbelievers’. Donald Trump has taken a swipe at Joe Biden’s ‘open border policy’ in the aftermath of the attack in New Orleans. The Republican has continued to try to tie the crash to undocumented immigrants, even though the suspect behind it was born in the US and was an Army veteran, who had served in Afghanistan.
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Writing on his website, Truth Social, Trump said: ‘With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe.
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