Narrative Hardest Hit: NBC News' Ken Dilanian Says 'Shamsud Din Jabbar' Is "A Rather Uncommon Name"

Posted • January 1, 2025: After initially denying that the attack in New Orleans in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day was a terror attack, and then belatedly admitting that obvious fact, the FBI is now confronted with the onerous task of investigating what was actually an Islamic jihad attack. NBC News reported early Wednesday afternoon that “four senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter say they have preliminarily identified the suspect in the vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans as Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42.” Din Jabbar is “accused of intentionally plowing a pickup truck into New Year’s revelers at about 3:15 a.m. on Bourbon Street, authorities said. The suspect is dead, the FBI said.” In his vehicular jihad attack, Din Jabbar murdered at least ten people and injured dozens of others.

The mysterious flag on the back of the truck Din Jabbar was driving seems to have been a flag of the Islamic State (ISIS). If that is definitively confirmed, it would not be surprising at all, for ISIS has called for vehicular jihad attacks as far back as 2014. In a long communiqué encouraging individual Muslims to carry out jihad attacks in Western countries, it quoted the Qur’an: “O you who believe, take your precautions, then advance the proven ones, or advance all together.” -- New Orleans had put up bollards to stop vehicular attacks, but they were down and in the process of being replaced when Wednesday’s attack took place. And no one is talking about why the bollards are necessary in the first place, and if vehicular jihad attacks are simply going to be a feature of life in the U.S. and all over the West from now on. That is a conversation that we urgently need to have. (…)

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Rumble: It Was Jihad In New Orleans: Attacker Identified As Shamsud Din Jabbar, FBI Misled The Public
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Twitchy: NOLA: New Orleans Attacker Identified and 'Source Said He Was Carrying an ISIS Flag'
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Townhall: Vehicle Used in New Orleans Terror Attack Crossed the Border Two Days Ago. Trump Responds.
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PJ Media: It was Jihad in New Orleans: Attacker Identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/01/01/it-was-jihad-in-new-orleans-attacker-identified-as-shamsud-din-jabbar-n4935582
Twitchy: FBI, Mayor of New Orleans Give Conflicting Takes on If Attack was a 'Terrorist Event'
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/01/01/new-orleans-mayor-fbi-give-conflicting-takes-on-if-the-attack-was-terrorism-n2405978
RedState: Attacker in Bourbon Street Massacre Identified, and the FBI Clearly Misled the Public
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/01/01/new-attacker-in-new-orleans-massacre-identified-and-the-fbi-clearly-misled-the-public-n2183811
Twitchy: Trump Releases Statement After More Is Learned About the New Orleans Attacker
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NBC News: Law enforcement officials identify the suspect in the New Orleans attack
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/law-enforcement-officials-identify-suspect-new-orleans-attack-rcna185929