I for one have been waiting for a terrorist attack within the US since the fools who lead our nation chose to erase any sense of a border after “winning” the White House in 2020.
Expectations met.
We got two of them on the first day of the new year, but they don’t seem to have been carried out by foreigners. In fact, one of them seems to have been a weak attempt at “sending a message” to Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk.
The first in the early morning hours in New Orleans yesterday was suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, using a truck to mow down pedestrians on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. Fifteen people were killed while at least 35 were injured (some severely). Jabbar seems to have been a radicalized Islamist who was born and raised in the U.S. and spent time in the military. The EV pickup truck he drove had a black ISIS flag waving from the rear.
The FBI initially claimed that it wasn’t a terrorist attack and studiously used the term “event” in an early briefing. It later changed its assessment to definitely a terrorist attack and that Jabbar may have had accomplices, although that too, was later ruled out.
Don’t doubt the pronouncements of the FBI, Jack!
Jabbar’s brother defended Islam.
The brother of the terrorist who launched the deadly car attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans says that “radicalization” is to blame for his kin’s rampage.
Abdur Jabbar, 24, of Beaumont, Texas, told The New York Times that his brother Shasmud-Din Jabbar — who killed at least 15 people in the New Year’s Day attack — converted to Islam at an early age.
The younger Jabbar told the newspaper that what his brother “did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.”
Either he doesn’t know his brother, or he doesn’t know Islam.
The other attack, outside the lobby of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas around 9:00 AM, only killed the driver of a Tesla Cyber Truck. The blast was caused by what seems to have been a mixture of flammable camping fuel and large “mortar” style fireworks. The chassis of the truck is so solid that it contained the blast and forced it upward rather than outward.
Seven others were injured in the attack.
The similarities between the two incidents are that both used an electric vehicle, and both vehicles were acquired using the Turo app. The Turo app allows customers to rent a vehicle peer-to-peer from a private individual.
The Turo app used to rent two different EVs which were used in two different attacks could just be coincidence. Or it could point to coordination and a larger conspiracy.
It’s an unfortunate way to kick off the new year. If this is how the year has started, there may be more to come.
We really need Trump to be inaugurated and to get his team confirmed and in place.