The New Orleans attacker who killed 14 people by ramming a pickup truck into a crowd built two bombs with a “very rare explosive compound,” senior law enforcement officials have said.
The compound had never before been used in a US or European terror attack, with investigators now exploring how attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar learned how to produce the explosive.
The FBI is investigating terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s visit to Canada as they revealed new details into his planning of the New Orleans attack.
Investigators said they are now probing leads across the country and abroad of Jabbar’s movements leading up to the attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens.
Special agent in charge of the New Orleans Field Office Lyonel Myrthil told a press conference on Sunday: ‘We have tracked that Jabbar traveled to Cairo, Egypt, from June 22 until July 3 of 2023.
A message circulating on a Haitian WhatsApp group in Springfield, Ohio, lists the best destinations for those fleeing the town in the wake of Donald Trump’s election win.
All of them are states run by Democrats who could provide sanctuary for Haitians worried about being deported following Mr Trump’s election victory: New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Vermont, Massachusetts and California.
It is believed that thousands have left for those states in the weeks after polling day. More of Ohio’s sizeable Haitian population is preparing to follow.
Whether the bureau designates an Islamist attack “terrorism” depends on a dubious judgment that it was inspired by “false” Islamic teaching.
Turns out that Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept Islamic scripture on, of all places, his internal profile page at Deloitte, where he was working as a “solutions specialist” — which sounds eerie now in light of the “solution” he had in mind when he rammed a rented Ford pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street in the first hours of the new year, killing 15 and injuring dozens more.
A major housecleaning is in order.
America’s top doctor has called for risk warnings on alcoholic beverages, similar to the labels on cigarettes, following new research that links the drinks to seven types of cancer.
The advisory from US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the “majority of Americans are unaware of this risk” that leads to about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 deaths annually in the US.
It would require an act of Congress to change the existing warning labels, which have not been updated since 1988.
A figure filmed planting pipe bombs around Capitol Hill hours before the January 6 insurrection is so well disguised, the FBI isn’t sure if they are a man or a woman.
The 5ft 7in suspect was caught on CCTV laying the explosives outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on January 5, 2021.
Newly released video showed they wore a white hoodie, dark pants and gloves, and a mask around their face – as most people did during the Covid pandemic at the time.
This newly released surveillance video of the 1/6 bomber leads us to two vital clues:
1. With the legs together, half-ladylike, combined with previous videos, this is undoubtedly a woman.
2. With that conclusion, we must rule out @mtgreenee as a suspectpic.twitter.com/Ovy78G1RTM
— YS (@NYinLA2121) September 10, 2021
Officials were told in 2019 that the French Quarter’s Bourbon Street was vulnerable to car-ramming. Days on from those fears being realised, it has reopened
New Orleans officials were warned five years ago that the city’s famed Bourbon Street, a tourist hotspot that attracts thousands of people each day, was vulnerable to a “vehicular ramming” attack.
As revellers and residents returned to the strip, which reopened only 36 hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a vehicle to kill 14 people and injure more than 30 others in the early hours of New Year’s Day, local officials pledged to strengthen security measures throughout the historic French Quarter.
Senator Sanders is coming out squarely on the side of immigration hardliners by saying that the H-1B visa program for high-skilled immigrant laborers is nothing more than a ploy for the rich to get richer by suppressing American wages.
Mr. Sanders, who is an ardent opponent of President Trump, has inserted himself into a debate that’s divided Trump supporters. Trump’s co-chairmen of the new Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, have received fierce criticism from America Firsters since saying that the H-1B program should not only be protected, but expanded.
It’s always about the greater good. For their pocketbooks.
The same angst and disgruntlement that brought the Nazis to power can be seen in today’s woke leftist youth.
For years now we’ve heard that even moderately conservative Republicans are “far right” and deserving of the “Nazi” label. And Republican presidential candidates routinely are tagged with the “Hitler” label. The only time the label is removed is when the left finds it useful to contrast “good” Republicans with bad. So, for example, the onetime Hitler aspirant George W. Bush became “statesmanlike,” sort of, when it became useful to contrast him with the new boogeyman, Donald Trump.
A more subtle form of this labeling comes in the form of comparing our current situation to that of the Weimar Republic — Germany’s first attempt to create a constitutional democratic republic similar to our own, instituted after World War I in 1919. Despite high hopes, the new republic was troubled throughout its short life, riven by radicalism on both the left and the right, catastrophically failing in the end, and giving way in 1933 to Hitler’s Nazi dictatorship.
The New Year began in America with news that a Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck had been driven into crowds on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans’ French Quarter, killing 15 and injuring 35 more. The suspect then exited the vehicle and opened fire, wounding two police officers, before being shot dead. The assailant has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US army veteran born in Texas. While this had all the hallmarks of an Islamist attack, the FBI were quick to have a barely-literate confirm “it is not a terrorist event”. This was then recanted, when it was revealed that Jabbar was flying an ISIS flag from the trailer hitch of the truck, and that two improvised explosive devices were found near the scene. Now, the FBI suspects Jabbar did not work alone.
Stopping attacks requires a “see something, say something” mentality. (In Canada that would result in hate crime charges)
In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, plowed his rented truck through revelers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. Then he jumped out and initiated the shootout that ended his life, wounding two police officers. Police found an ISIS flag, weapons, and an improvised explosive device in Jabbar’s pick-up truck, along with two more IEDs in the area. Jabbar’s attack left at least 14 dead and dozens more hurt.
Let’s all give a big shout-out to the “Globalize the intifada” crowd. You got your way! Congratulations. Hope it feels good.
For years, citizens of Israel have had maniac jihadists driving at them and trying to mow them down on their streets. But this got only cheers from the dolts on US college campuses and New York street protesters.
Then, just before Christmas, Germany again got a taste of this “intifada.” That was when a Saudi immigrant decided to plow a vehicle through a previously happy Christmas market. He killed five people and injured almost 200.
Businessman and TV personality Kevin O’Leary has become a travelling salesman for the Great White North as of late. His one-man crusade to promote a stronger Canada-U.S. economic union would have been fine on its own. But alas, he couldn’t help himself (again) and made it all about himself (again) by attempting to get directly involved in a discussion he wasn’t asked to join.
Americans in their 30s have never looked less like grown-ups.
Amid steep declines in homeownership, marriage and birth rates, economists have long been warning that young people are struggling to meet the milestones of adulthood. Although some 30-somethings are consciously choosing a less traditional path, many say these goals are simply out of reach.
“It feels like the instructions for how to live a good life don’t apply anymore,” says 38-year-old Cody Harding, who is single and lives with three roommates in Brooklyn. “And nobody has updated them.”
Vice President-elect JD Vance has been known for his humble beginnings, even before he ran for public office. “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” was published 2016, and the movie adaptation came out in 2020. His background has helped him relate to voters, especially in the Midwest. However, in a post from Sunday, Current Affairs, a leftist magazine, tried to claim that Vance and President-elect Donald Trump are part of “right-wing populism,” and thus “born to immense privilege and went to elite schools.”
