A vital question remains in Washington as authorities investigate the identity of the man who killed 14 people with a vehicle in New Orleans on New Year’s Day?
FBI deputy assistant director Christopher Raia reported on Thursday that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native who supported IS, claimed to have joined the violent party before last summer, and argued that there was a “war between the believers and atheists” in movies released just before the invasion. While FBI was looking into his “path to radicalisation”, evidence collected since the attack showed that Jabbar was” 100 % inspired by ISIS”, said Raia, using an acronym for Islamic State. Jabbar, who officials said acted only, was killed in a shootout with police.
His half-brother, Abdur Jabbar, said that Jabbar, who had worked for inspection strong Deloitte, abandoned Islam in his 20s or 30s, but had lately renewed his beliefs. He told Reuters in Beaumont, Texas, where Jabbar was born and raised, that he had no notion when his half-brother became radicalised.
Ali Soufan, an ex-FBI representative who sits on homeland security minister Alejandro Mayorkas ‘ expert council, claimed Jabbar did not fit the standard profile of those who have been radicalized by IS. According to Soufan, Jarjar spent ten years in the US military and was in his 40s, indicating that people who fall victim are usually many younger. ” This is a man who… went from being a soldier to being an IS extremist”.
What kind of interaction does Jabbar have had with foreign radical organizations is still undetermined. A US administration standard, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Jabbar travelled to Egypt in 2023, staying in Cairo for a month, before returning to the US and therefore travelling to Toronto for 3 weeks. It wasn’t distinct what he did during those trips.
According to US officials and other experts, IS conducts its interviewing primarily through online chat rooms and through encrypted communication programs. Trainees could either be given immediate orders or be forced to self-radicalise to take action. According to US leaders, IS has benefited from the massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza battle. The IS aims to demonstrate its global influence by motivating people to carry out attacks separately and demonstrate their lack of a physical caliphate through its creation of a fear and volatility.
Attackers who carried out numerous fatal attacks have linked IS. They included the lone survivor of the Islamist bombing that left 130 people dead in Paris in 2015, the victim of the 2016 gay bar shooting at a gay club in Florida, and the victim of the truck-driving into a packed cycle path in New York City in 2017 that left eight people dead. Some problems, like those in 2015 in Paris, were carried out by trained IS employees. However, the criminal organization’s direct involvement in other people was not established by researchers. Reuters &, AP
