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FBI says New Orleans attacker acted alone in an ‘act of terrorism’
A state trooper stands by New Orleans' Canal and Bourbon streets, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
The FBI now says that the pickup truck driver responsible for a deadly rampage in New Orleans acted alone and say it was definitely “an act of terrorism.”
Officials said yesterday that they were seeking additional potential suspects in an attack being investigated as an act of terrorism.
But Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, says today that the evidence now shows that Shamsud-Din Jabbar was solely responsible for the attack and had professed allegiance to the Islamic State.
“He was 100 percent inspired by ISIS,” he adds.
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