New Orleans terrorist radicalized by ISIS on-line inside weeks, FBI director says

New Orleans terrorist attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar was radicalized by ISIS on-line “inside weeks,” based on FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Jabbar killed 14 civilians when he rammed a rented Ford F-150 truck by a New 12 months’s crowd celebrating on Bourbon Road round 3:15 a.m. on Jan. 1. He then started capturing at police, who returned fireplace, killing the attacker.

“[H]e seems to have been impressed — from afar — by ISIS. And it’s, in some ways, essentially the most difficult sort of terrorist menace we face,” Wray advised “60 Minutes” in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday. “You are speaking about guys like this, who radicalize not in years however in weeks, and whose methodology of assault continues to be very lethal however pretty crude. And if you consider that outdated saying about connecting the dots, there are usually not a whole lot of dots on the market to attach. And there is little or no time by which to attach them.”

The FBI famous earlier this month that Jabbar, 42, traveled to Cairo, Egypt, from June 22 to July 3, 2023, then returned to the U.S. In a separate journey on July 10, 2023, he traveled to Ontario, Canada, and returned to the U.S. a couple of days later.

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The Texas native was a twice-divorced Military veteran who, regardless of a profitable job at a big consulting agency, had a historical past of monetary struggles and missed little one assist funds, information present.

Previous to the New Orleans assault, he visited town twice — as soon as in October and once more in November. He used Meta good glasses to take movies of his environment as he rode a motorbike by the French Quarter months earlier than finishing up the lethal assault.

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On Dec. 31, Jabbar rented the Ford truck in Houston after which drove it to New Orleans, the place he checked in to an AirBnb. Authorities would later discover bomb-making supplies and remnants of a fireplace on the property, saying Jabbar probably tried to cowl up his crime by trying to burn proof on the rental house within the St. Roch neighborhood, about two miles from the French Quarter.

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“It is fairly clear to date that it is a man who was radicalized on-line and who was decided to attempt to homicide as many harmless individuals as he might within the identify of ISIS,” Wray stated in his interview with “60 Minutes.”

He added that these sorts of lone wolf threats have gotten extra widespread in america.

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“There was a man, a Pakistani citizen, who, only a few months in the past, we labored with our Canadian companions to arrest,” Wray defined to host Scott Pelley. This man was making an attempt to get into the U.S., get into New York Metropolis, to conduct a mass capturing at a Jewish Middle in Brooklyn. … In his phrases, he needed to conduct the biggest assault within the U.S. since 9/11.”

The FBI continues to research the assault and stated that whereas Jabbar apparently acted alone, authorities are nonetheless investigating whether or not he had any accomplices.

Fox Information’ Michael Ruiz contributed to this report.