At first, the FBI insisted that the mass-murder vehicular attack in New Orleans wasn’t terrorism. Then they announced that Shamsud-din Jabbar had several accomplices to help him place two IEDS, only to reverse that later and claimed that he’d worked alone.
However, a new report from NBC News suggests that Jabbar may have had some assistance with the bombs after all. The explosive used turns out to be so unusual that it has never been used in terror attacks in the West before now, and it’s not at all clear how Jabbar either received it or manufactured it himself:
Federal investigators examining the attack say that Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in the two devices, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
Authorities are investigating how Jabbar acquired the knowledge to create this homemade explosive, the officials said.
Those officials say that the explosive has never been used in a U.S. terror attack or incident, nor in any European terror attack. A key question for investigators is how Jabbar learned about the compound and how he managed to produce it.
Let’s get the biggest caveat out of the way: can we trust the accuracy of this report? It’s not as though investigators have covered themselves in glory over the last four days in this case. Presumably, NBC’s sources are in the FBI, since they have taken control of the investigation, and as I noted in my preamble, the FBI keeps hitting reverse on public declarations, let alone unauthorized leaks.
Assuming that this report is accurate and Jabbar used such an exotic explosive, one has to wonder why. Explosives are not difficult to find, and more common explosives would presumably be harder to trace back to a source. One can find Internet recipes to make C4, a common explosive used by the American military and others, without too much trouble. (I’d recommend not Googling that without a specific benign purpose, of course.)
It’s not as if Jabbar’s military experience would have lent itself to expertise in explosives, exotic or otherwise. He primarily worked in Human Resources and Information Technology, although he did do a tour in Afghanistan and qualified as a parachutist too. He may have come across explosives during his tour, but his record shows no particular assignment where Jabbar worked specifically with explosives of any kind as a specialist. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
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