US President Joe Biden claimed that Shamsud Din Jabbar, the truck attacker from New Orleans, had hidden two IEDs in the ice coolers in the French Quarter and was carrying a remote detonator in his car when it crashed into a group of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street.
In addition to Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, who was shot dead in a gunfight with police after he drove his fast vehicle around a roadblock and crashed into the crowd, the attack claimed the lives of 14 revelers. Approximately thirty people suffered injuries.
The two IEDs that US Army veteran Shamsud Din Jabbar, a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist organization, planted in the coolers have been found by the FBI.
Biden informed reporters that they have proven that the attacker is the same one who, just hours before he crashed his car into the crowd, put the explosives in the ice coolers at two neighboring places in the French Quarter. “They are confirmed he had a remote detonator in his car to detonate those two ice chests.”
The US President also said he would try to visit New Orleans to media assembled in the East Room of the White House.
The FBI has proven that the mastermind of this “act of terrorism,” Shamsud Din Jabbar, was an ISIS follower. In a series of films he uploaded online, the suspect acknowledged his love for ISIS, and an ISIS flag was discovered in his car.
ISIS and other terrorist groups will be ruthlessly pursued by the United States, Biden assured. “We are going to relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organisations where they are and they will find no safe husher here,” Biden stated.
Furthermore, Biden stated that although the investigation into the potential link between the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion and the New Orleans attack is ongoing, no proof of one has been discovered to date.
One person was killed and seven people were injured when a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Authorities searched for connections between the two instances because the cars used in them were hired from the “Turo” automobile rental website.
