New Orleans attack live: FBI found videos of driver expressing ‘ISIS inspiration, desire to kill’, Joe Biden says | today news

New Orleans terror attack: A US Army veteran, waving an ISIS flag from his truck, drove through makeshift barriers and into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people. and 30 others were injured on Bourbon Street in New York. Orleans during the early hours of Wednesday (US local time).

Here are the top ten latest updates:

1. The suspect, 42-year-old Shamsud-Deen Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas who had served in Afghanistan, was shot by police after running into the crowd. The FBI is investigating any possible ties he may have to terrorist groups. “We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible,” FBI Assistant Special Agent Alethea Duncan said at a news conference, the AP reported.

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2. When authorities investigated the grim scene in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter on Wednesday, they found an ISIS flag along with a pickup truck that had crashed into the crowd. According to a law enforcement official briefed on the developments on condition of anonymity, two improvised explosive devices were found in the suspect’s vehicle. Additional potential IEDs were also found in the city’s French Quarter neighborhood, the FBI said, according to the report bloomberg,

3. US President Joe Biden has condemned the horrific car-collision incident that occurred during New Year celebrations in New Orleans on Wednesday (US local time). Biden said Wednesday evening that the FBI had obtained videos posted by the driver on social media hours before the attack. In these videos, the driver expressed his desire to be inspired by the Islamic State group and commit suicide.

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4. Biden said law enforcement is investigating any possible connection between the New Orleans ‘terrorist’ attack and the Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Both the vehicles involved in the incidents were rented from car rental service ‘Turo’, which helped authorities trace possible links between the two incidents.

5. Biden said, “I will continue to have updates throughout the day and will have more to say as we have more information to share. In the meantime, my condolences go out to the victims and their families who were just trying to celebrate the holidays. There is no justification for violence of any kind, and we will not tolerate any attack on any community in our country.”

6. In a statement sent via email, car rental company Turo confirmed that both the truck used in the New Orleans attack and the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded in Las Vegas were purchased through its service, as The New York Times reports. Was hired from.

7. President-elect Donald Trump reignited the debate on immigration and crime after a car crash during New Year’s Eve celebrations in New Orleans that killed at least 10 people and injured 35 others Done, he accused Democrats of dismissing his warnings about criminal immigration. America.

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8. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said, “When I said that the criminals coming into our country are worse than the criminals who came to our country, that statement was constantly refuted by the Democrats and the fake news media, but it must be true. Gone.” To be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level never seen before. Our thoughts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the city of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”

9. “For those who don’t believe in purposeful evil, you just have to look at what happened in our city this morning,” said U.S. Senator John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, as reported reuters “If this doesn’t trigger a vomit reaction from every American, every fair-thinking American, I would be very surprised.”

10. FBI officials have repeatedly warned about the growing international terrorism threat due to the Israel-Hamas war. In the past year, the agency has disrupted other potential attacks, including in October when it arrested an Afghan man in Oklahoma for an alleged plot to target a large crowd on Election Day, the AP reported.

(with inputs from agencies)