A driver killed 10 people and injured dozens of others after driving a pickup truck with an ISIS flag into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year. Bourbon Street in New Orleansjust days after a pro-ISIS organization called on Muslims to wage Islamic jihad in the US, Europe and Russia.
The tragic event occurred around 3:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day and the FBI identified the driver as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar of Texas.
Police said the suspect died after jumping from his truck and exchanging gunfire with responding officers.
The FBI told reporters on Wednesday that a ISIS flag was located on the vehicle’s trailer hitch, adding that the FBI is working to determine Din Jabbar’s possible associations and ties to the terrorist organization.
SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AFTER DRIVER KILLS TEN, INJURES TEN IN BOURBON STREET TRUCK ATTACK
Emergency crews respond to Bourbon Street after a vehicle crashed into a crowd at New Orleans Canal and Bourbon Street on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
On Sunday, a pro-ISIS channel turned to Telegram and called on Muslims living in the US, Europe and Russia to carry out attacks on New Year’s Eve.
“Oh monotheists in Europe, America, Russia and other Crusader countries, we know that you would like to join your brothers in the land of Jihad, but the paths are cut off for you,” said a translated version of the message . . ‘The Crusaders are among you. Their security has been extended and your brothers are being killed.
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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JANUARY 1: Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies are working on scene on Bourbon Street after at least ten people were killed when a person reportedly drove into crowds in New Orleans, Louisiana in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, January 1, 2025. Dozens of others were injured after a suspect allegedly drove a rented pickup truck 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 officers. (Michael DeMocker/Getty Images)
“The time has come to unsheath the swords and paralyze the horses in their places that Allah loves and is pleased with,” the post continued. “They are preparing for the festival of their polytheism, so turn their celebration into mourning and their joy into disaster.”
The newspaper asked Muslims, or “crusaders,” whether they felt safe in their homes because their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps, before calling on them to “repeat the attack on them and repeat the days of those who you went before’. this path.”
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“So, lie in wait, lie in wait, seize opportunities and attack them as a hungry lion attacks its heedless prey,” the message read. “Let none of you be cowardly or weak, and let the saying of Allah be before your eyes: Come and fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together, so trust God and repeat the days of terror against the Crusaders with murder, resentment and torture, for the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘A disbeliever and his murderer will never meet in the Fire, so support Allah and He will support you, and be fair to him. Him.'”
The attack in New Orleans comes almost two weeks after a suspect terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany.
A psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia was reportedly arrested in connection with the December 20 car crash at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, which killed five people, including a nine-year-old boy, and injured more than 200 others.
