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Home Front: WoT
A series of terrorist attacks in the USA
2025-01-03
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
[ColonelCassad] 1. During the terrorist attack in New Orleans, 15 people were killed, more than 60 were injured, the terrorist himself was killed and, as it turned out, he was associated with ISIS. The attack was recognized as a terrorist attack.

Four people were arrested in connection with the terrorist attack. The terrorist attack was supposed to be larger-scale and accompanied by bomb explosions. The terrorist attack in New Orleans was carried out by a US Army veteran, who allegedly (according to Biden and the FBI) ​​was inspired by ISIS.
Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, retired as an IT/HR (25B/42A) Staff Sergeant after serving in the Army and Army reserves (2007-2020 or 2006-2019). He was either Moslem from childhood on or a recent convert — his brother and the current husband of his second ex-wife disagree — but he’d definitely gone off the deep end by 2022, when wife #2 divorced him. During the videos he made while driving the rented EV truck to New Orleans he talked about ISIS and massacring his family .
2. As a result of the terrorist attack at Trump Tower in Las Vegas, one person was killed and 8 were injured.

A Tesla car parked near Trump Tower was blown up. The deceased was also associated with US security agencies.
MSgt Matthew Leavelsberger, 37, a Green Beret currently on leave from the 10th Special Forces Group. His wife did not know he’d left Germany. See more here.
Elon Musk said that these were not fireworks, but a bomb.

A little earlier, it emerged that the terrorist attack at Trump Tower in Las Vegas and the terrorist attack in New Orleans are connected.
That was the concern yesterday. But now the FBI believes they are not connected. It turns out the MSgt is connected to Ukraine.
As part of the assumptions, I would not be surprised if these terrorist attacks in turn are connected with the assassination attempts on Trump, where a character connected to the American military also surfaced. Well, ISIS may act as an ordinary legend to divert suspicion from the real inspirers.
Sometimes, when one is far away, one better sees the big picture. Other times it’s just that one misses some key points and misinterprets others. And it is always a risk that one’s perfectly good information when writing will be superceded by subsequent events after publication. But it’s lovely that the good colonel is paying attention, as we do to his side of the world.


Closer to home — from NOLA.com Day 2:
  • Authorities now say Jabbar was the sole attacker and was inspired by ISIS.

  • Jabbar was seen on surveillance video placing two blue coolers containing improvised explosive devices on Bourbon Street hours before the incident, authorities said.

  • The Sugar Bowl game between Notre Dame and Georgia that was rescheduled following the Bourbon Street attack kicked off at 3 p.m., just hours after officials reopened the famed street in the French Quarter.

  • Shamsud-Din Jabbar appeared to post three religious recordings to a SoundCloud account less than a year ago, one of which likened music to "Satan's voice."

  • FBI officials say they don't believe there is a connection between the Bourbon Street attack and a Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas the same day.

  • Though both Jabbar and Matthew Livelsberger served on Fort Bragg Army base in North Carolina, their assignments did not overlap.

  • Law enforcement agents have recovered three phones and two laptops belonging to Shamsud-Din Jabbar from an Airbnb on Mandeville Street, which was set on fire after Jabbar left to carry out the attack.

    • Via Hot Air, Jabbar struggled to adjust to civilian life after moving from Regular Army to the Army Reserve, which got worse after he separated from his second wife, and:




    Related:
    New Orleans: 2025-01-02 With the West excusing terrorism, who needs Islamists?
    New Orleans: 2025-01-02 Hundreds chant for ‘intifada’ at New Year’s Day protest in NYC’s Times Square
    New Orleans: 2025-01-02 Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion outside the Trump Hotel & Casino on the Vegas Strip
    Related:
    Las Vegas: 2025-01-02 Las Vegas Cybertruck Explosion outside the Trump Hotel & Casino on the Vegas Strip
    Las Vegas: 2025-01-02 Day 2: Bourbon Street attacker inspired by ISIS killed 15
    Las Vegas: 2024-12-24 Wrong-way driver who killed an off-duty Las Vegas officer had been deported from the U.S. twice before

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    Posted by:badanov

    #8  Ilhan Omar's Series of Unfortunate Events
    Posted by: swksvolFF   2025-01-03 16:34  

    #7  My apologies, Frank G. It’s a good link, which adds to the discussion here.

    Note that I ran a Related search on the mosque name — it’s a popular name in Pakistan, in case that’s meaningful in this situation.
    Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-03 12:30  

    #6  #3 was mine
    Posted by: Frank G   2025-01-03 12:23  

    #5  The FBI is not necessarily competent, and certainly is not trustworthy.
    Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612   2025-01-03 12:13  

    #4  Looks staged. Usually they use CNN for that type of work. Must have wanted a larger audience or a date.
    Posted by: Super Hose   2025-01-03 12:13  

    #3  And I think this is one of Grom the Reflective’s:

    At New Orleans Terrorist's Local Mosque, Imam Says Hitler Killed Jews 'Because of the Economy Thing, They Were in Control of the Economy'
    [WashingtonFreeBeacon] Jews 'have many problems, but that's one of the main problems—they like to take control of the economy,' Eiad Soudan said during 2023 event
    Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-03 11:54  

    #2  The tweet:


    Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-03 11:12  

    #1  Scathing, from Townhall: Nola Terrorist Home: Is It Normal for the FBI to Leave This Much Evidence Behind?

    It looks like the house was left unguarded and unlocked after a violent entry by the FBI raid team. The article reflects on the NY Post’s report of what they found there, with tweeted video of their reporter’s walkthrough.

    The press was at his Houston home hours before the FBI, who arrived, kicked out the media, and cordoned off the area. They did take items for their investigation, but many were commenting that it’s a bit shocking they’re allowing the press to enter this crime scene so soon. Also, they left a lot of materials behind. The publication already had a good preliminary story about Jabbar, including his financial hardships, which resulted from two divorces.

    Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making.

    His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”

    Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby.

    FBI officials on Thursday said Jabbar posted five disturbing videos on Facebook on his drive from Houston to New Orleans just hours before he unleashed carnage on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 innocent pedestrians dead.

    In the first disturbing video — posted at 1:29 a.m. — the US Army veteran said he had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.

    In other videos, he said he had joined ISIS “before this summer” and showed off his last will and testament.

    The IT whiz was on a legitimate career path until apparently falling on hard times both personally and financially.

    He contended with two failed marriages and faced mounting debt before he murdered 14 innocent pedestrians and injured dozens more with an explosive-laden Ford F-150 truck bearing the black flag of the jihadist group.

    …from 2019 to 2021 he worked at EY — also a Big 4 firm — as a cloud consulting manager before landing a gig at yet another top consultancy, Deloitte, where he earned a salary of $125,000.

    His first wife — from whom he separated in 2012 — got custody of the couple’s children, while he was ordered to pay child support.

    He remarried in 2017, but three years later his second marriage hit the skids, his ex was granted a restraining order which prohibited Jabbar from sending her obscene or threatening messages, threatening “bodily injury” to her or the couple’s child, the outlet reported.
    Posted by: trailing wife   2025-01-03 11:11  

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