Following the deadly New Year's Day attack in New Orleans, the FBI warns of potential copycat or retaliatory violence. The attack, which killed 14 people, has prompted concerns about the increasing use of vehicle ramming tactics inspired by ISIS.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies have warned about the risk of copycat or retaliatory attacks after a man drove a rented pickup truck through a crowd of New Year's revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, killing 14 people before he was shot dead in a firefight with police. The bulletin, reviewed by CBS News, was released overnight and distributed to law enforcement partners nationwide.
It warned that vehicle ramming attacks are 'likely to remain attractive for aspiring attackers' because of the relative ease of requiring a vehicle and the 'low skill threshold necessary' to carry out such a plot. The tactic has often been used by ISIS in the past, according to the bulletin. Neither ISIS nor any other terror group has claimed responsibility for the Bourbon Street attack, the bulletin said, but the driver, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran from Houston, declared his support for ISIS in a series of videos posted before the attack. The federal bulletin noted that official ISIS messaging between 2014 and 2016 called for ramming attacks followed with secondary weapons. At least 13 attacks using vehicles as weapons were carried out in the United States, Canada and Europe between 2016 and 2017, the agencies said. The Bourbon Street attack is the seventh attack inspired by a foreign terror organization on U.S. soil since 2001, the bulletin said, and the first since 2017 to result in fatalities. 'The surge in vehicle-ramming attacks in 2016 and 2017 suggests that successful attacks — particularly in the West — may inspire similarly motivated actors to adopt the same method,' the bulletin said. Online, foreign terror organizations and supporter groups had released multiple videos calling for violence during the winter holidays, specifically New Year's celebrations, the bulletin said
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