Details about the New Year’s morning terror attack in New Orleans are still coming out, of course, but before the misinformation of the official narrative takes hold, and before the Democrat accusations of Islamophobia begin flying fast and furious, let’s review what we know.
At about 3:15 a.m. of New Year’s Day, a man intentionally drove his rented pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 people and injuring over 35 more. Attached to the back of the truck was a black flag of the Islamic State terror organization. As police drew toward the scene, the driver exited the vehicle and began shooting at people, including cops, who returned fire and killed the suspect.
He has been identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, reportedly an American-born Army veteran and black convert to Islam living in Houston, Texas. He previously resided in North Carolina, where in 2012 he was registered as a Democrat.
Din Jabbar was armed with a Glock handgun and .308 caliber rifle equipped with optics and a sensor, according to a “high-level local source.” Material for an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) also was recovered from the truck, which was tracked crossing the southern border into the U.S. at Eagle Pass, Texas, on November 16th. The driver who crossed the border, however, does not appear to be Din Jabbar, the sources said, who reportedly rented the vehicle on December 30.
An emotional eyewitness stunned a CNN interviewer by describing the “unimaginable casualty” he saw:
I mean, just the disfigurement and the bodies — strewn. It’s something you can’t unsee. You’ll never forget. Directly at our feet was definitely a mother. Twisted up, obviously deceased. We counted around eight bodies very quickly right in our area. One gentleman crushed had tire tracks across his back. Once they rolled him over, there were tire tracks on his front, he was completely crushed. Another girl, young small girl, was dancing when we were coming up the street, and she was just completely flat in the middle, dead center. Another woman, just brutally run over, but still agonizing. […]
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