LA - Vehicle drives through New Year's crowd - Multiple fatalities reported - Bourbon Street New Orleans - January 1 2025

[Luna20]

wait the bollards haven't worked since at least 2019???!!!

I was under the impression that this was a recent thing

For reasons like this. And this is one of many. The City spending is unlike any other.

Council President Helena Moreno has questioned why the City Council hadn’t been informed about the city money being sent to Forward Together New Orleans.
“We weren't getting any type of information from the mayor's office as to...why was money being sent to the mayor's nonprofit,” said Moreno, who along with council members JP Morrell and Eugene Green sponsored a resolution in April asking the city’s inspector general to look into the nonprofit’s activities.

The inspector general “will want to know... where did this money come from, where did it go, and who was directing the expenditure of those funds,” said Matt Coman, a former federal prosecutor who reviewed public emails and FTN.

City aid programs halted as IG probes Cantrell's 'mayor's fund'

Forward Together New Orleans has not been able to pay bills for some of Cantrell’s prized social welfare programs.

www.wwltv.com

 

[Charlot123]

I wonder if anyone has sent something radioactive on a plane?
I believe they scan/xray luggage that goes in the cargo hold.

Per Google, there have been cases of polonium trafficked into GB and several other countries. For some reason, I doubt he Jabbar was using any radionuclides.

Question is, was he sitting at home, pulling whatever info off the internet and working alone, or was he communicating with someone? I can’t even make a guess, he seems to have maintained such a low profile. 50/50.

BTW, Muslim or not, this guy has a history of drinking, and maybe not only that, so it may not be the story of a vet who suddenly got radicalized. Maybe it was more the usual way, discharged, returned to drinking, then substances, they affected his brain in a bad way, only he expressed it differently than ML? One dude, ML, was social, had friends and relationships, so when he got bonkers, he exploded himself but didn’t touch others. The other one, S-DJ, quiet but essentially, so detached from people, that to plow through the crowd was easy?

This link has a video of SJ talking about army service. To me, he looks flat and sounds monotone.

Who was Shamsud-Din Jabbar? The Houston man accused in the deadly New Orleans truck attack – Houston Public Media

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

 

[Friday Fan]

Per Google, there have been cases of polonium trafficked into GB and several other countries. For some reason, I doubt he Jabbar was using any radionuclides.

Question is, was he sitting at home, pulling whatever info off the internet and working alone, or was he communicating with someone? I can’t even make a guess, he seems to have maintained such a low profile. 50/50.

BTW, Muslim or not, this guy has a history of drinking, and maybe not only that, so it may not be the story of a vet who suddenly got radicalized. Maybe it was more the usual way, discharged, returned to drinking, then substances, they affected his brain in a bad way, only he expressed it differently than ML? One dude, ML, was social, had friends and relationships, so when he got bonkers, he exploded himself but didn’t touch others. The other one, S-DJ, quiet but essentially, so detached from people, that to plow through the crowd was easy?

This link has a video of SJ talking about army service. To me, he looks flat and sounds monotone.

Who was Shamsud-Din Jabbar? The Houston man accused in the deadly New Orleans truck attack – Houston Public Media

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

He may have been looking for "acceptance". However, I always thought that was more common among ME cultures because they would have a cultural bond. However, ISIS has been recruiting generic Americans, Canadians etc and using the "acceptance" model. "Acceptance" is often used by street gangs to recruit "misfits".

Video is 10 years old BTW

 

[Luna20]

Who can fathom that this wasn’t in place for the Sugar Bowl??? Was there a meeting to discuss the possibility of it not being finished on time? What was the takeaway from that meeting (if there was one)?

Since they rank at the top for the worst US crime it should be more of a priority. Common sense. If they didn’t do it for the Sugar Bowl what other corners are being cut in maintaining the integrity and infrastructure of the City? And protecting the residents, and tourist??

The mayor took 3 of her staff to France to get an understanding of how France has influenced NO. It was paid for by the government. First class flights. They have asked her to reimburse the City the 40K she spent. Not sure where it stands today but she said she wasn’t going to pay it back because it was to learn about tourism???!!!

This is a clear example of funds not going to the allocated areas. They have had a few years to get this done. To simplify, the needed tagline is ‘They didn’t do it for the Sugar Bowl’

Two years ago NO was first place for Americas Murder Capital rank. This will be a point of contention for lawsuits.

 

[sunspun]

Survivor Jeremi Sensky spoke to NBC News from his hospital room, where he is recovering with two broken legs.
"I’m assuming I got hit by the truck, but honestly, nobody’s ever told me that, so I don’t know," Sensky said. "But my wheelchair was completely bashed and the pieces were all over the place, so something hit me."

Everything happened so quickly, he said. One moment he was turning around and the next he was on the ground in the middle of the sound of gunfire coming in different directions.

"I just heard screaming and I heard gunfire," he recalled.

He couldn't find his phone, so Sensky began screaming for help.

"No one would come, and so I pushed myself on my back, and I saw people, and they were taking pictures from the balcony, and I was screaming out for help and people were just looking at me," Sensky said.

A cop named Patrick eventually walked over to him and explained that many people were dead, Sensky recalled. The officer told Sensky that he “was lucky to be alive.”

"I kept asking for someone to help me and get me out of there and it took a while," Sensky said. "I realized that it was a bad scene."

Sensky, who was paralyzed from the waist down prior to the attack, doesn't believe that anyone realized he couldn't walk as they took in the chaos of the scene. Eventually, he was carried to an ambulance and taken to the hospital where he underwent surgery.

His right leg was broken in a "million pieces," but Sensky also said it saved him.

Survivor of New Orleans terrorist recalls 'surreal' aftermath of deadly attack that shattered his legs

Jeremi Sensky is one of at least 35 people who were injured when a Texas man rammed a truck through Bourbon Street on New Year's Day.

www.nbcnews.com

Wow, that must have been horrible, even more so being paralyzed and not able to get yourself out of such a dangerous, deadly spot. But I don't understand the final line in that article. How did his leg save him? Was there more after that that wasn't included here, or did I miss something?

 

[sunspun]

I saw a wheelchair to the right of the truck, was going to mention it but didn’t.

Glad he’s alive.
Jmo

Depending on the state of the wheelchair that you saw, that may mean there was at least one OTHER wheelchair-bound person who was hurt (or worse), since he said his was smashed to pieces. Awful to be left so helpless and hurt too.

 

[sunspun]

After he left the home, the fire burned to the point that it extinguished itself, prior to spreading to other rooms.

I don't understand this statement about the fire the suspect set in his own home. It says the fire went out ("extinguished itself"), and THEN spread to other rooms. How does that make sense? It spread AFTER it went out? Maybe it re-ignited or something, I guess. I know that does happen. One time, my aunt's little one bedroom house caught fire while she was out (probably by a cigarette she didn't realize was still burning when she emptied an ashtray into the trash on her way out the door.) The fire dept came out and put out the fire and left while she was still away from home. The neighbors said there wasn't much damage done. But then somehow, after they left, it re-ignited and burned the whole place down before she even got back home. They must have missed something still burning when they were there the first time, and it was already out of control when they came back the second time.

So maybe something like that happened here?

 

[branmuffin]

Think of this. He had eight volumes of religious books. I take it, they were in Arabic?

Arabic is super difficult to learn. If he taught himself, first, he must have been bright, second, he had to train online. From there to some websites is easy. I think it would be the natural way. I think that the imams living here are NOT radicalizing people, far from it. They have a good life in a good country, they would push their members to achieve. But with the state of the borders, some people who come across make me shiver. The combination of poor education, high religiosity and already pre-existing group... they take the books too literally, that's the problem. IMHO, Jabbar, who was, it seems, isolated, might have joined such a group here for the company, not realizing that by education or general intelligence, they were far below him.

I think most Muslims read Arabic if they read the Quran. They don't speak it, though.

 

[katydid23]

I know. I don't know why it's such a mystery!

I don't think they want people learning about new ways to build explosive devices.

 

[girlhasnoname]

[bbm]

do you mean Egypt?
and was it for a month??

I apologize, yes it was Egypt and I've seen it reported he was there for a month. Recently it's been stated that he was there for less time. Many conflicting stories being reported. JMO

 

[katydid23]

Another source, quoting his brother, claims that the father is Muslim:

Abdur-Rahim Jabbar shared that their father was Muslim and Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s mother, who was Christian, converted when they married. Jabbar was open about his Muslim faith but didn’t discuss it in a forceful way.

The perp's stance on Israeli-Palestinian conflict:

The two rarely talked about religion, he said, though they did discuss the war in Gaza last year. Jabbar expressed being upset about the situation, calling it “genocide on both sides.”

New Orleans assailant said in videos to his family that he considered killing them before conducting attack

Experts said the details that have emerged about Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, align with the typical pattern of how a veteran can be radicalized to violence.

www.nbcnews.com

I don't think the brother had a realistic or accurate view of Shamsud-Din. He consistently minimises how radicalised he actually was, IMO. Maybe Shamus wanted to act like he was normal and non-aggressive in front of his family.

 

[girlhasnoname]

I know. I don't know why it's such a mystery!

I think they don't want to provide too much detailed information on the chemical construction as not to inform other would be bombers. JMO

 

[GRT]

Theoretically, it is unsafe to smuggle in explosives. Components of explosives to be combined with something on the spot can be smuggled in. But honestly, JMO, homemade recipes might be posted in many places. Maybe they are unusual for this country, but nothing super-fancy. The fact "never used in America or Europe" is more telling. I hope it rules out nukes, because a bomb was detonated in Nevada and before, Fermi's reactor burst up accidentally. If not nukes and nor Europe/US, it surely limits the options.

The "nuke" thing didn't even dawn on me until I read your post, but that's a definite consideration. I've heard about "suitcase nukes," but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know whether that technology actually exists or just lives in the minds of Hollywood script writers.

Interesting (and, scary) thought.

 

[indicolite22]

I don't think the brother had a realistic or accurate view of Shamsud-Din. He consistently minimises how radicalised he actually was, IMO. Maybe Shamus wanted to act like he was normal and non-aggressive in front of his family.

Yes, the brother was not in frequent contact with him. The perp went from a non-practicing Muslim to embracing the orthodox version around 2022 and then went a step further in the past year. IMO he really believed his holly book instructed him to kill infidels.

 

[GRT]

I don't think the brother had a realistic or accurate view of Shamsud-Din. He consistently minimises how radicalised he actually was, IMO. Maybe Shamus wanted to act like he was normal and non-aggressive in front of his family.

I don't think anyone had an accurate view of SDJ. He hid it well. And SDJ's comment about the Gaza situation, saying it was genocide on both sides, indicates he didn't take a full-on Islamicist approach at that specific time.

I'd like to know who he met with/stayed with on his trip to Egypt.

I'd also like to know more about the "rare" explosive substances he had.

 

[Dotta]

"All 14 victims
of the New Orleans terror attack."



Rest in Peace.

PICTURED: All 14 victims of the New Orleans terror attack

Horror unfolded when Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42 drove a Ford F-150 into crowds ringing in 2025 in New Orleans' French Quarter on Wednesday around 3.15am.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[GRT]

Yes, the brother was not in frequent contact with him. The perp went from a non-practicing Muslim to embracing the orthodox version around 2022 and then went a step further in the past year. IMO he really believed his holly book instructed him to kill infidels.

I think he reached that point, too. He found a way to satisfy his thirst for evil and justify it to himself.

I think he longed to kill--maybe that's why he joined the military in the first place--and then, when his life spiraled out of control, he could no longer help himself.

His comment about music being Satan, seems as though he's trying to justify his own weaknesses. He had three (pretty) wives, and who knows how many girlfriends. He was weak in the flesh and had to have something to blame it on. Music.

I also think he was a control freak, but that his women found that part of him unacceptable.

In short -- I think he hated himself and in the end -- he hated everyone else as well. Just the idea that he would kill all his family indicates he felt his life was totally out of control.

All MOO

 

[Charlot123]

The "nuke" thing didn't even dawn on me until I read your post, but that's a definite consideration. I've heard about "suitcase nukes," but I'm not knowledgeable enough to know whether that technology actually exists or just lives in the minds of Hollywood script writers.

Interesting (and, scary) thought.

I Googled.
The first reactors were surprisingly small. Later, there came

SADMS

Special Atomic Demolition Munition - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

W-48

W48 - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

And Russian ADMs (mentioned in the first link.)
They were not powerful, but a nuke is a nuke. So I think it is feasible. Only this guy could not set fire to own house, so probably, and luckily, he was not a “bomb man.”

BTW, I wonder if they didn’t find anything fancy, but a material typically used in Afghanistan, or some component wrapped in a paper with Arabic letters in it. It could have been enough.

 

[Elley Mae]

Authorities are examining how a U.S.-born citizen transformed from a military veteran to a suspect in a deadly rampage. The probe is piecing together what the suspect did in Egypt and whether he was radicalized beforehand or whether the trip marked the start of this process, with ABC reporting evidence he was in contact with the Islamist group ISIS.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar's visit to Egypt under scrutiny

Shamsud-Din Jabbar went to the north African country before the New Orleans attack, his brother told ABC News.

www.newsweek.com

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The investigation now turned to how Jabbar - a U.S. Army veteran who recently held a six-figure job – was radicalized. He grew up Muslim in Texas and most recently lived in Houston.

New pictures show New Orleans terror suspect placing explosives ahead of deadly bloodbath

The FBI has released eerie surveillance images showing 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar just about an hour before the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

www.fox4news.com

…

 

[imstilla.grandma]

Experts say the New Year's Day rampage reflects a longstanding threat of lone-wolf attacks from radicalized Americans. It also comes as there are concerns about brewing threats abroad

Devorah Margolin, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said counterterrorism efforts have grown more sophisticated since the Sept. 11th attacks and the Islamic State no longer controls territory, but its influence persists.

“For many of these groups, they realize they cannot carry out these very organized, high-level attacks that they once did, and so they're encouraging their supporters to pick up a knife, get in a car, and do what we would call low-intensity attacks that actually create mass damage because they're often targeting civilians,” Margolin said.

New Orleans attack underscores terror threat in US

The terror attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people is considered the deadliest Islamic State-inspired assault on U.S. soil in recent years.

www.wdsu.com