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A suspected ISIS member was arrested in connection with the Jan. 1 attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people and injured at least 57 others, Iraq's judiciary said Sunday. Following a request from the U.S. for assistance in the investigation, Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council said the individual “was arrested for inciting the Jan. 2025 truck attack in the United States," according to Al Arabiya News, a Saudi state-owned international Arabic news channel. The unnamed suspect is “a member of the external operations office of the Daesh terrorist organization" — the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group known ISIS....

Newly released police bodycam footage captured the shocking moment the New Orleans terrorist was shot and killed by police in the New Year's Day attack. The footage showed how heroic cops sprang into action to kill ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar after he plowed through a crowd of revelers and shot at police and bystanders. The video shows three New Orleans police officers surrounding Jabbar's Ford F-150 and ordering him out of the car, which had been used to kill 14 people and injure dozens more. A fourth officer whose bodycam footage was released, named as officer Luis Robles, then ran...

The FBI later put out a statement confirming the Bourbon Street attack was 'terrorism'. Published January 17, 2025. FBI Special Agent Aletha Duncan tells public in press conference that the attack in New Orleans was not related to terrorism. (Reuters)

Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday that the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans shows Kash Patel “should not be confirmed” as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI. Schiff told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” that the terrorist attack “underscores” why it’s important to have an FBI director “that has experience, has judgment, that has character, that will prioritize defending the country against the violence we saw in New Orleans or the violence we saw on Jan. 6.” Schiff added that the Senate should not confirm “someone whose top priority is political vendettas, who believes in Deep...

New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a bomb-making station in his Texas home and a page of the Quran open to a passage that read, "they fight in Allah's cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding," reports the New York Post. Jabbar, 42, drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street early New Year's Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more. He was killed while exchanging fire with police after ramming the truck through the crowd. Jabbar, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, also posted a series of...

US News: The family of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspect in the tragic New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans, has spoken out...

New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar had a workbench in his bedroom that was set up for making bombs – while a Quran on his bookshelf nearby was left open to a passage about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show. Jabbar’s Texas home was filled with chemical residues and chemical bottles, while an investory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making. His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf – where it stood as...

HOUSTON – ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show. His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…” Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby. (pictures and video in...

In the early hours of the New Year, an American-born citizen with a black ISIS flag drove a truck down Bourbon St. in New Orleans, killing fifteen revelers and injuring about three dozen others. His name was Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The New Orleans attack followed hard upon another vehicular incident at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, which led to the deaths of at least five people while injuring 200 more. Vehicular terror events are becoming more common throughout the world. In 2021, a driver rammed into a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five people and injuring 48...

The mosque reportedly attended by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar urged members to refer inquiries from the FBI to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. More than a dozen were killed and dozens wounded in the terror attack in the early hours of New Year’s Day on Bourbon Street, in which Jabbar drove a truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of revelers. Newsweek reported: A mosque near the Houston home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who police say carried out the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans, has urged its congregation...

The person driving the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's hotel in Las Vegas has been named by news outlets as Matthew Livelsberger. Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Army veteran who lived in Colorado Springs, rented the truck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel, Colorado Springs-based station KOAA and the New York Post reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. Livelsberger served at the same Army base as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in a New Orleans New Year's Day truck attack that killed at least 15 people, Denver-based station KMGH reports. Newsweek could not immediately verify the information. The Las Vegas...

The brother of the terrorist who launched the deadly car attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans says that “radicalization” is to blame for his kin’s rampage. Abdur Jabbar, 24, of Beaumont, Texas, told The New York Times that his brother Shamsud-Din Jabbar — who killed at least 15 people in the New Year’s Day attack — converted to Islam at an early age. The younger Jabbar told the newspaper that what his brother “did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.” Abdur described his brother, who was killed by police after mowing down...

Federal investigators believe a US Army veteran who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans' French Quarter prepared the IED explosives at a nearby rental property. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen born and raised in Texas drove an electric vehicle from Houston to Louisiana to carry out the deadly attack which killed 15 and left at least 35 injured. Investigators are probing the theory he rented a nearby property on Airbnb in St. Roch for his base before carrying out the attack. Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs show the moment the FBI removed bomb making...

The man responsible for the Cybertruck explosion outside Trump International Hotel served at the same military base as the New Orleans terrorist, according to a new report.

President Joe Biden on Wednesday confirmed that the perpetrator of a New Orleans, La., terrorist attack on New Year's Eve identified ISIS as his inspiration for the rampage.Authorities identified Shamsud Din Jabbar as the culprit in the mass killing that saw 10 dead and dozens more injured. The president further confirmed the attacker was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a citizen who expressed support for the Islamic State."The FBI is leading the investigation to determine what happened, why it happened, whether it was any continuing threat to public safety," he said. "Here's what we know. So far, the...

The twisted driver who massacred pedestrians celebrating the New Year on a New Orleans street and died in a shootout with police has been identified. Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, a U.S citizen, drove a rental truck brandishing an ISIS flag into the crowd on Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens. He was killed by cops after he exited his vehicle and started shooting. The electric-vehicle-driving terrorist - who the FBI believes did not work alone on the horrifying attack - grew up in Texas and served in the U.S. Army. Jabbar worked for white-collar Deloitte as...

The Sugar Bowl matchup between Georgia and Notre Dame has been postponed following a terrorist attack that left 10 people dead in New Orleans on New Year's Day. New Orleans NBC affiliate network WDSU-TV reports the College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup will be played at a later date as law enforcement investigates the attack, which left 10 dead and 35 people injured in the early hours of Wednesday morning

Charlie Kirk @charliekirk1 🚨BREAKING: Authorities confirm that 4 or 5 other suspects involved in the New Orleans attack in addition to Shamsud Din-Jabbar. 11:48 AM · Jan 1, 2025

Federal law enforcement is investigating a mass casualty event in New Orleans as an “act of terrorism” after a truck was driven into crowds on a popular nightlife street in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The FBI, which is leading the investigation, said Wednesday the man who plowed into New Orleans’s famed Bourbon Street in the city’s French Quarter neighborhood is dead after killing 10 people and injuring dozens more. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick called the attack “very intentional” during a news conference Wednesday, suggesting the assailant was “hellbent on creating the carnage and the damage...

(Partially translated from French via Brave) Islamist terrorist attack in New Orleans: 10 dead, 35 wounded, including 2 policemen wounded by bullets; the suspect is Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, he was carrying a flag of the’ Islamic State (MaJ) The suspect accused of having driven a truck into the crowd on Bourbon Street is Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, according to a source from’ordering. The source said’he was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck. New Orleans City Council President Helena Moreno said the suspect in the incident that claimed many lives was wearing full military equipment and apparently was not...