New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar was radicalized by ISIS online 'within weeks,' FBI Director Christopher Wray said in a '60 Minutes' interview.
New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar was radicalized by ISIS online 'within weeks,' according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. Jabbar killed 14 civilians when he rammed a rented Ford F-150 truck through a New Year's crowd celebrating on Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 1. He then began shooting at police, who returned fire, killing the attacker. 'e appears to have been inspired — from afar — by ISIS.
The Texas native was a twice-divorced Army veteran who, despite a lucrative job at a large consulting firm, had a history of financial struggles and missed child support payments, records show. Prior to the New Orleans attack, he visited the city twice — once in October and again in November. He used Meta smart glasses to take videos of his surroundings as he rode a bike through the French Quarter months before carrying out the deadly attack.
On Dec. 31, Jabbar rented the Ford truck in Houston and then drove it to New Orleans, where he checked in to an AirBnb. Authorities would later find bomb-making materials and remnants of a fire at the property, saying Jabbar likely attempted to cover up his crime by attempting to burn evidence at the rental home in the St. Roch neighborhood, about two miles from the French Quarter.
It's pretty clear so far that this is a guy who was radicalized online and who was determined to try to murder as many innocent people as he could in the name of ISIS,' Wray said in his interview with '60 Minutes.' He added that these kinds of lone wolf threats are becoming more common in the United States.
There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen, who, just a few months ago, we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest,' Wray explained to host Scott Pelley. This guy was trying to get into the U.S., get into New York City, to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish Center in Brooklyn. … In his words, he wanted to conduct the largest attack in the U.S. since 9/11.
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