Potential Accomplice Arrested In New Orleans New Year’s Terror Attack

[Lauren Keenan]

The Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq confirmed nan apprehension of an ISIS personnel accused of inciting nan deadly New Year’s Day panic onslaught successful New Orleans, according to aggregate news outlets. The attack, successful which nan driver of a motortruck plowed done a crowded Bourbon Street, killed 14 group and injured 57 others.

The suspect, identified arsenic 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas, was believed by nan FBI to person acted alone, though agents did not norm retired nan anticipation of accomplices. The FBI wished Jabbar was inspired by ISIS.

According to nan FBI, Jabbar drove an F-150 pickup motortruck into a crowd connected Bourbon Street successful nan early greeting hours of Jan. 1, 2025. After nan rampage, Jabbar was changeable and killed during a shootout pinch police.

Jabbar was capable to get astir a constabulary vehicle being utilized arsenic a impermanent barrier, Axios New Orleans reported, and past drove down much than 2 blocks of a crowded Bourbon Street earlier stopping. Jabbar besides detonated 2 improvised explosive devices, aliases IEDs, further down nan street.

Iraqi authorities said they arrested a 2nd man for inciting nan attack, though they did not merchandise his name, Fox News reported connected Tuesday, April 29.

A translated connection obtained by Fox News indicated Iraqi officials scheme to prosecute nan fishy nether nan country’s anti-terror laws and for alleged rank successful ISIS.