Iraqi officials confirmed the arrest of a member of ISIS, accused of inciting the New Year terrorist attack on Borbon Street at New Orleans on Tuesday, killing 15 people, including the criminal.
Arrest took place after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas 14 citizens killed And injuring 57 others when he celebrated Ford F -150 on January 3, around 1 January through a New Year crowd on a famous New Orleans Street.
Iraqi officials said that their investigation into a member of ISIS came at the request of US officials, but provoked the deadly attack, and the officials are not releasing the name of the suspect.
According to a translated statement by the Iraq judiciary, the suspect will be tried in Iraq under the anti -terrorism laws of the country to be a member of ISIS.
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Investigator works in the scene after a person moved a vehicle to a vehicle in a vehicle in the first crowd and Borbon Street in New Orleans on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
The judiciary said, “With the efforts of the National Center for International Judishan Cooperation, a person involved in the terrorist ISIS organization was arrested in January 2025 to incite the hit-end-run incident in the United States, due to which 15 people died and 30 others, according to the injury, to tell that he is associated with a translated version of the statements. A gunman ran over the festive crowd with a truck before setting fire on them. “
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The police investigate a crime site on Borban Street in New Orleans, Louisiana on Wednesday, January 1, 2025. A driver mortgaged the New Year’s revelation crowd and started firing a weapon in the early hours of the morning. (Cat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
The judiciary stated that the first factor investigation court, “Based on the investigation and analysis of the evidence, identified the accused and arrested him in Iraq as he is called a foreign operations office of the terrorist ISIS organization,” said the judiciary.
FBI New Orleans said in a statement, “The FBI investigation of the New Year’s day terrorist attack in New Orleans is active and running. While we continue to work with our law enforcement partners, both, in the US and international level, continue to attack, which continues to attack Shamsud Deen-Jabbar. tips.fbi.gov,
The FBI had earlier stated that it did not dismiss the possibility of involvement in the attack, even though Jabbar worked alone, saying that the suspect had visited New Orleans on the first two occasions, once on 30 October, 2024, and once on 10 November 2024. He also visited Cairo and Toronto before the attack.
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Shamsud-Din Jabbar rented an airbnb shortly before the Bourbon Street attack. (Fox News Digital)
Federal officials also said that Jabbar was inspired by ISIS.
Former FBI director Christopher Ray said, “(H) E appears to be motivated – from far – isis. And it is in many ways, the most challenging type of terrorist threat,” “60 minutes” In a comprehensive interview aired in January. “You are talking about such people, who make radicals not in years but in weeks, and whose method of attack is still very fatal, but is quite raw. And if you think about the old saying about adding dots, there are not a lot of dots to connect. And there is very short time to connect them.”
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The Texas native was a two-time veteran of the army, who had a history of financial conflicts and missed child support payments, Records Show, despite an attractive job in a large counseling firm.
During his visits to New Orleans months before the attack, Jabbar used meta smart glasses to take videos of his surroundings, as he riding a bike through the French quarters.
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The FBI released this picture of Shamsud-Din Jabbar. (FBI New Orleans)
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On 31 December, Jabbar hired a Ford truck in Houston and then Took it to New Orleans, Where he checked in an AirbnB. Officers later found the remains of bomb making materials and property residues, saying that Jabbar tried to cover his crime by trying to burn evidence at a rented house in St. Roach neighborhood, about two miles from the French quarter.
The New Orleans Police faced terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on 1 January 2025. (New Orleans Police Department)
“It is still very clear that it is a person who was made online fundamentalist and who was firm to try to kill many innocent people, as he could be in the name of ISIS,” Ray said in his interview with “60 minutes” in his interview.
Fox News’ Patrick McGawn contributed to this report.
