The investigation into a deadly New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans is looking into potential links to the Islamic State.
The Islamic State's ruthless credo and military successes have helped spur affiliated groups in Africa, Asia and Europe. The investigation into the New Year's Day truck attack in New Orleans , which killed 15 people, is expected to look at any support or inspiration that driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar may have drawn from that violent Middle East-based group, or from any of at least 19 affiliated groups around the world.
President Joe Biden said Wednesday evening that the FBI had told him that “mere hours before the attack, (Jabbar) posted videos on social media indicating that he was inspired” by the Islamic State. Routed from its self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq by a U.S. military-led coalition more than five years ago, the Islamic State has focused on seizing territory in the Middle East more than on staging massive al-Qaida-style attacks on the West. But in its home territory the Islamic State has welcomed any chance to behead Americans and other foreigners who come within its reach. And it has had success, although abated in recent years, in inspiring people around the world who are drawn to its ideology to carry out ghastly attacks on innocent civilians. President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his administration 'will support the people of New Orleans as they begin the hard work of healing.' The Islamic State also is known as both IS and ISIS, or the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Under leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, IS had seized stunning amounts of territory in Iraq and Syria by 2014
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