Happy New Year, infidels.
Details about the New Year’s morning terror attack in New Orleans are still coming out, of course, but before the misinformation of the official narrative takes hold, and before the Democrat accusations of Islamophobia begin flying fast and furious, let’s review what we know.
At about 3:15 a.m. of New Year’s Day, a man intentionally drove his rented pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring over 35 more. Attached to the back of the truck was a black flag of the Islamic State terror organization. As police drew toward the scene, the driver exited the vehicle and began shooting at people, including cops, who returned fire and killed the suspect.
He has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, reportedly an American-born Army veteran and black convert to Islam living in Houston, Texas. He previously resided in North Carolina, where in 2012 he was registered as a Democrat.
Din Jabbar was armed with a Glock handgun and .308 caliber rifle equipped with optics and a sensor, according to a “high-level local source.” Material for an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) also was recovered from the truck, which was tracked crossing the southern border into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, on November 16th. The driver who crossed the border, however, does not appear to be Din Jabbar, the sources said, who reportedly rented the vehicle on December 30.
An emotional eyewitness stunned a CNN interviewer by describing the “unimaginable casualty” he saw:
I mean, just the disfigurement and the bodies — strewn. It’s something you can’t unsee. You’ll never forget. Directly at our feet was definitely a mother. Twisted up, obviously deceased. We counted around eight bodies very quickly right in our area. One gentleman crushed had tire tracks across his back. Once they rolled him over, there were tire tracks on his front, he was completely crushed. Another girl, young small girl, was dancing when we were coming up the street, and she was just completely flat in the middle, dead center. Another woman, just brutally run over, but still agonizing.
This is jihad. Jihad is Islam.
The FBI initially obfuscated matters by insisting, against all reason, that this was not an act of terrorism. Then the FBI confirmed that it was, and that Din Jabbar probably was not “solely responsible.” Law enforcement officials reportedly are looking at surveillance footage which shows three men and a woman placing what appears to be remote-controlled IEDs inside of coolers in the French Quarter. A remote control was discovered inside Din Jabbar’s vehicle.
My Freedom Center colleague, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer, speculated in the wake of the incident that this was vehicular jihad, a tactic common enough in recent years in Europe, which has been utterly transformed by mass Muslim immigration and where Christmas markets and other large holiday gatherings are routinely targeted by jihadists behind the wheel. “As far back as 2014, the Islamic State (ISIS) was calling upon Muslims in Western countries to carry out vehicular jihad attacks,” Spencer wrote. He catalogs a few other such attacks, including in America. --->READ MORE HERE
Will authorities now admit the reality of vehicular jihad?
SECOND UPDATE: NBC News reported early Wednesday afternoon that “four senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say they have preliminarily identified the suspect in the vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42.” Din Jabbar is “accused of intentionally plowing a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers at about 3:15 a.m. on Bourbon Street, authorities said. The suspect is dead, the FBI said.” The mysterious flag on the back of the truck Din Jabbar was driving seems to have been a flag of the Islamic State (ISIS). If that is definitively confirmed, it would not be surprising at all, for ISIS has called for vehicular jihad attacks as far back as 2014.
UPDATE: At 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, the FBI in New Orleans posted a statement on its Facebook page, saying: “The FBI is the lead investigative agency, and we are working with our partners to investigate this as an act of terrorism.” It is good that they have come around on this rather obvious fact, after an FBI special agent initially denied that it was a terror attack, as you can see in the original article below. Will we eventually be told what kind of terrorism was involved here? That remains to be seen.
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The most curious aspect of the attack in New Orleans in the early morning of New Year’s Day is the naked and open contradiction between the city’s mayor and the FBI about what exactly happened. And that contradiction may mean that we will never know what really happened.
The basic facts of the incident are fairly straightforward, but they’re the only straightforward aspect of this. At around 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday as New Year’s revelers packed the streets at Canal and Bourbon Street in New Orleans, a large truck plowed into them at high speed. By all accounts, the driver did this deliberately, killing at least ten people and injuring dozens more in the process.
And the man wasn’t finished. After crashing his truck, he jumped out and started firing at the cops who were beginning to assemble at the scene, wounding two of them. The police returned fire, and the attacker was killed. It appears that he had plans for even more mayhem, when the police searched his truck, they found improvised explosive devices.
This is where the story takes a strange turn. At a hastily convened press conference early on Wednesday morning, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said that the incident was a “terrorist attack,” although she offered no information or speculation about what kind of terrorist attack it might have been. Once Cantrell was finished, however, FBI Special Agent Aletha (that’s how Fox has her name; NPR and CNN have “Alethea”) Duncan contradicted her, asserting that it was “not a terrorist attack.”
Now, this is just weird. What else does the FBI propose to call an attack in which a driver deliberately plows a truck into a crowd, then gets out and fires on the cops, and had explosives ready so as to kill or injure even more people? If that isn’t a terror attack, what exactly is a terror attack? Does the woke, clueless, compromised, and corrupt FBI only consider an incident to be a terror attack when it can plausibly claim that the perpetrator was a “white supremacist” Trump supporter?
Is it possible that the FBI doesn’t want to call what happened in New Orleans a terror attack because doing so might lead some people into “Islamophobia”? Absolutely. There is no information available as yet about the New Orleans attacker, but vehicular attacks are a favored tactic of Islamic jihadis. And the FBI of Christopher Wray and Robert Mueller has been busy downplaying and denying the reality of Islamic jihad for years. --->READ MORE HERE
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