A driver with an ISIS flag plowed a truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing one and injuring several others. The FBI says there's no suspected connection to the recent Las Vegas attack.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick told the TODAY show there was no information that had suggested to police there could be a possible attack like the one that unfolded on Bourbon Street last night when a man drove a truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and Army veteran.
A potential improvised explosive device was in the truck he was driving, and other potential IEDs were discovered in the French Quarter, the FBI said.Chris Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said there’s no connection suspected thus far between the New Orleans attack and the 'At this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,' he told reporters during a news conference updating on the investigation into the New Orleans attack. 'We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except for Shamsud-Din Jabbar,' Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, told reporters.Pope Francis offered condolences to the archbishop of New Orleans, Gregory Aymond, saying he was “deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and injury” in yesterday’s terror attack. “In assuring the entire community of his spiritual closeness, his holiness commends the souls of those who have died to the loving mercy of Almighty God and prays for the healing and consolation of the injured and bereaved,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of Vatican City, said in a statement. “As a pledge of peace and strength in the Lord, the Holy Father sends his blessing.”President Joe Biden will convene members of his homeland security team today around 12:15 p.m. ET to receive an update on the investigation into the Bourbon Street attac
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