A driver killed 10 individuals and injured dozens extra after plowing a pickup truck donning an ISIS flag right into a crowd of individuals celebrating the New 12 months on Bourbon Road in New Orleans, simply days after a pro-ISIS outlet referred to as on Muslims to wage Islamic jihad within the U.S., Europe and Russia.
The tragic occasion occurred at about 3:15 a.m. on New 12 months’s Day and the FBI recognized the driving force as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar of Texas.
Police mentioned the suspect died after leaping out of his truck and buying and selling gunfire with responding officers.
The FBI advised reporters on Wednesday that an ISIS flag was situated on the trailer hitch of the automobile, including that the FBI is working to find out Din Jabbar’s potential associations and affiliation to the terrorist group.
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AFTER DRIVER KILLS TEN, INJURES DOZENS IN BOURBON STREET TRUCK ATTACK
Emergency companies attend the scene on Bourbon Road after a automobile drove right into a crowd on New Orleans’ Canal and Bourbon Road, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Picture/Gerald Herbert)
On Sunday, a pro-ISIS outlet turned to Telegram and referred to as on Muslims dwelling within the US, Europe and Russia to conduct assaults on New 12 months’s Eve.
“Oh monotheists in Europe, America, Russia and other lands of the Crusaders, we know that you are eager to join your brothers in the land of Jihad, but the paths have been cut off for you,” a translated model of the put up learn. “The Crusaders are amongst you. Their safety has been extended, and your brothers are being killed.
SEPARATE SHOOTINGS NEAR NEW ORLEANS PARADE ROUTE LEAVE 2 DEAD, 10 WOUNDED
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JANUARY 1: Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least ten people were killed when a person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dozens more were injured after a suspect in a rented pickup truck allegedly drove around barricades and through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street. The suspect then got out of the car, opened fire on police officers, and was subsequently killed by law enforcement. (Michael DeMocker/Getty Images)
“The time has come to take out the swords from their sheaths and to hamstring the horses of their locations that Allah loves and is happy with,” the post continued. “They’re getting ready for the feast of their polytheism, so flip their feast into mourning and their pleasure right into a calamity.”
The outlet asked Muslims, or “Crusaders,” if they felt safe in their homes as their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps, before calling on them to “repeat the assault on them and repeat the times of those that preceded you on this path.”
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“So, lie in await them, lie in wait, and seize alternatives and assault them like a hungry lion assaults its heedless prey,” the message read. “Let none of you be cowardly or weak, and let the saying of Allah be earlier than your eyes: Come and struggle the polytheists all collectively as they struggle you all collectively, so put your belief in God and repeat the times of terror in opposition to the Crusaders with killing, spite and torture, for the Messenger of God, could God bless him and grant him peace, mentioned: ‘An unbeliever and his killer will never meet in the Fire, so support God and He will support you, and be honest with Him.’”
The assault in New Orleans comes almost two weeks after a suspected terror assault on a Christmas market in Germany.
A psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia was reportedly arrested in connection to the Dec. 20 car-ramming at a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, that killed five people, including a nine-year-old boy, and injured over 200 others.
