The FBI briefed the media a few hours ago on the Bourbon Street terrorism attack. The presser is posted below (Start at 22:00).
* Governor Jeff Landry said over a thousand law enforcement officers have been working on the case.
* Deputy Director Christopher Raia spoke for the FBI (Thank goodness). He leads the counterterrorism division.
* Mr. Raia said 14 people died in the attack while 35 were injured.
* "This was an act of terrorism. This was premeditated and an evil act," said the Deputy Director.
* "We do not assess that anyone else was involved in this attack besides Shamsid-Dun Jabar," said Mr. Raia.
* Assets such as the Hostage Rescue Team and bomb specialists have been deployed.
* Jabar picked up the rented truck on December 30. Drove from Houston to New Orleans on December 31. He posted 5 videos declaring his love for ISIS and violent plans on social media.
* Jabar joined ISIS before "this summer."
* Bourbon Street has been released.
* The FBI recovered three phones and two laptops linked to Jabar. Laptops were recovered at his AirBnB rental on Mandeville Street.
* Two IED's were recovered at the intersection of Bourbon Street and Orleans Street as well as two blocks away. Other reports of IED's turned out not to be true. Surveillance footage showed Jabar placing the IEDs. One IED was placed in a cooler.
* "I went down to the crime scene last night, and it's difficult to put into words how hard it was to see," said Mr. Raia.
* The Deputy Director said "at this point there was no definitive link between" the attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas.
* Special Agent in Charge for ATF Josh Jackson spoke at the press conference. ATF brought in a team of explosive specialists to assist with the investigation. A team of K-9's will be deployed around the city through Mardi Gras.
* Mayor Latoya Cantrell said the cleaning of Bourbon Street began today at 2 AM and concluded at 8 AM.
* Bourbon Street is reopened to the public.
* "Right now, this is one of the safest places on earth," said Governor Landry.
* "There was no evidence of a suicide vest," said Mr. Raia
* The fire at the Mandeville Street house began after Jabar was killed.
38 comments:
Trust us! Do not believe your lying eyes!
I see Quantico rightly moved the local ASAC to the sidelines and brought in Mr. Clean. Dude was 100 times more competent and clear.
NOLA needs to do the same with Granny the police chief.
''acted alone''....thats what's the warren commission said.
“Bourbon Street has been released.” They took the whole street in for questioning? Damn, they ain't playing.
Suspicious of his "Muslim" neighborhood in TX. Someone there had to have known what he was doing in that house.
@2:59 You and I also know that Elvis is still alive. Shhhhhhh.....
I never thought I'd say this about another person, but I'm glad the man that did this is dead. God forgive me for saying that if it is wrong.
So the comments yesterday where the FBI stated explicitly that there was video of three males and a female planting the IEDs just go away and we pretend they didn't exist?
They found phones for all of those people. Someone was alive to start the fire at the rental until. This was as much of a lone actor as the Vegas shooter who had multiple phones and a 50 lb pack of tannerite that never got put in place...
It's amazing how quickly an investigation can move when football playoffs and television schedules are affected. It's safe! Let's go!
Very sad when the general public has no confidence in the FBI. The last four years has totally trashed the image that took 100 years to build. Really disheartening!
@2:42 PM - Amen.
@4:05, yeah, this bunch makes Hoover look honest.
Trust us, he acted alone. He was a drunk driver who missed his turn, not a terrorist. Move along! Nothing to see here!
Now tell us about the trump shooters
A friend of mine has a child that from a young age wanted to be an FBI agent. A retired FBI agent from their church advised her against it and told her it’s not the bureau it used to be. Like Trump said earlier today, the US is a “laughing stock”. What a crying f_____g shame these last 4 years have been.
A lone wolf? Sure, and Pearl Harbor was the act of a single Zero pilot.
@2:42 PM - The HQ stooge was brought in to change the narrative to a "lone wolf" actor scenario. Nothing to see here, move along.
I'm trying to manage this huge grain of salt. After all, the credibility of the FBI has been in decline in recent years.
A lesson we learned from Hurricane Katrina, is that you have to document/save/observe things as they're happening, as close to 'RealTime' as possible. Because later, more and more information gets disappeared or re-written, to fit 'The Narrative'. Use that printer. Take screen shots, and save them on external hard drives. Take photos of TV screens, even - because you can bet that reality will subsequently get reshaped.
The big cheese from HQ jumped in to change the narrative to a "lone wolf." Why? Because they likely let a sleeper cell exist so now it is CYA time because this happened on Biden's watch.
Just like magic, those 2-3 people placing coolers contained IEDs on Bourbon Street turned into a lone wolf. Abrakadabra.
Frank Herbert made the word "jabar/Jabbar" up, it is not a surname or a real word of any kind.
~ Gom Jabbar, also known as "the high handed enemy", was a handheld needle tipped with meta-cyanide poison. When driven into a victim, it brought almost instantaneous death.
Ironic, like the play writes think no one is as smart as they are. Another black swan production courtesy of your tax dollars.
Damn. Did the pharmacies run out of lithium? Is Kroger fresh out of aluminum foil for hats? Where do all the schizos come from on every incident? "Bwhahahaha, it's all part of the plan!!!!!!!!!" "They're watchiiiiiinnnnn!!!!!!"
@10:01 PM. The FBI liars who are changing their story on this are the same liars who told us Russia colluded with Trump to steal the election from Hilary. The same liars who told us Hunter’s Macbook was Russian propaganda. The same liars who lost all of the footage of the Jan 6 pipe bomb. And the same liars who commited the majority of the “riot” themselves on Jan 6.
Most of us have known about them since they murdered Sara Weaver in cold blood at Ruby Ridge.
Damn it, if the FBI says he acted alone, I'm going back to bed feeling warm, fuzzy and above all, SAFE.
I'll play Devil's Advocate. An investigation like this has a ton of local involved. If there was some grand conspiracy to hide involvement, it would be leaked to the press. Too many local reporters have local and state police contacts. They did show the pictures of Jabar planting the IED's.
There are more than a few commenters that connect dots that don't exist and who don't know the difference between evidence and speculation or have poor comprehension skills. They understand that when you break the law and/or resist arrest and fire on or threaten to fire on law enforcement bad things happen. And, worse, all of you conveniently forget, your sympathy is with controlling who assholes could always have let the women and children leave the house or compound. They were asked to do just that many times before the crap hit the fan.
It's worrisome so many of you don't seem to live in the real world but do live in this state.
Did the FBI process the coolers for fingerprints and DNA? Nope, they blew them up on scene. Did the FBI show all of the video footage or just cherry picked some for public consumption?
With New Orleans and Las Vegas acts both being committed in electric vehicles, I think it's time to ban electric vehicles.
When EVs are outlawed, only outlaws with have them.
The FBI said it, it was in the news, and that settles it.
"Did the FBI process the coolers for fingerprints and DNA? Nope," While I have no real faith in the FBI that statement of yours need some backing up. Please post proof.
We will see Biden years as trance.
4:04, you are loony. BTW, Sara Weaver is alive and well. Don’t let reality intrude on your paranoia. Get help. And don’t stay up all night talking to conspiracy theorist loons.
The amount of conspiracy thinking on this thread is astounding, but a good sign of where our country is right now. Are you not aware of how, in a fast-moving investigation, the authorities change their story as new information turns up? They initially reviewed footage of people (i.e., tourists) looking in the pipe-bomb cooler and thought they had placed them there until video of Jabber doing it himself surfaced. This video is easy to find. A simple, easy-to-understand situation. It happens all of the time. At this point, there isn't any evidence that this was anything other than a lone-wolf attack. If you have any objective evidence to the contrary - besides parroting "FBI BAD" - then call the authorities and let them know. Otherwise, STFU because you are making yourself look like the crazed loon you probably are.
@12:52 PM That is a magnificent appeal to authority for a limp bootlicker.
Hey Mr. Sketchy:
I am reminded of the "categorical pledge " regarding the chocolate ration. . .
"As short a time ago as February, the Ministry of Plenty had issued a promise (a ‘categorical pledge’ were the official words) that there would be no reduction of the chocolate ration during 1984. Actually, as Winston was aware, the chocolate ration was to be reduced from thirty grammes to twenty at the end of the present week. All that was needed was to substitute for the original promise a warning that it would probably be necessary to reduce the ration at some time in April."
George Orwell, 1984.
I ask people "who is the biggest threat to you personally? A: a mafia hitman. B: A Muslim terrorist. C: An FBI agent."
Almost everyone answers "C".
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