#New Orleans attack

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How to Help after Bourbon St.

I'm just now processing Bourbon Street attack after working through the aftermath of it yesterday.

If you want to show your support, here are the best ways to do it:

If you want to support the victims, the city of New Orleans and the Greater New Orleans foundation has set up a tragedy fund:

Some of the victims' families have set up GoFundMes and the like to cover expenses.

I recommend donating to the ones linked to on local news outlets like these, as these are most often legitimate.

GoFundMe also has a section for verified fundraisers.

If you live in Louisiana and are eligible to do so, donate blood!

Hospitals in NOLA are in dire need of it as several victims remain in the hospital.

The Blood Center is hosting emergency drives across the state today.

https://thebloodcenter.org/bourbonstterror

More ways to help can be found on local news outlets like these in the NOLA/BR area.

It's easy to forget that while New Orleans is a tourist hotspot, it's still a city with its own citizens who are experiencing genuine pain and trauma from this.

Hell, all of Louisiana is in mourning from this.

Please don't lose sight of the real people and communities affected. ❤️

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Since when do we do that? And not even 24 hours later. Seems weird af to me.

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New Orleans attack.

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The Islamic State is alive and attacking

Donald Trump could not have begun 2025 in a more attacking way. The Bourbon Street attack in New Orleans is so full of messages that the killing of the attacker by the cops is regrettable. Yet the dead attacker from Texas, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, is telling a bloodier story. Whether the attack is part of a new pattern or not, its scarily strong message is that the Islamic State is alive and attacking.

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The CIA? Did the Agency write this? Is there anyone who isn’t Weekend at Bernie’s-ing this guy right now?

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By: Hannah E. Meyers

Published; Jan 2, 2025

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, plowed his rented truck through revelers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. Then he jumped out and initiated the shootout that ended his life, wounding two police officers. Police found an ISIS flag, weapons, and an improvised explosive device in Jabbar’s pick-up truck, along with two more IEDs in the area. Jabbar’s attack left at least 14 dead and dozens more hurt.

The FBI now believes that Jabbar probably acted alone. And officials have found no link between his attack and the suicidal explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas hours later—an attack also apparently committed by a military veteran. In a video posted to social media before the attack, Jabbar expressed a “desire to kill” and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. He originally considered inviting his entire family to a “celebration” and massacring them before choosing to attack strangers in New Orleans instead.

In many ways, Jabbar fits the decades-old mold of a homegrown extremist. His life wasn’t going great: two divorces and a failing business left him cash-strapped and sounding desperate in correspondence with lawyers. One of his exes stopped allowing him to see their shared daughters. Jabbar’s religious observance became increasingly “radical,” and he kept largely to himself. It’s a familiar portrait.

What these incidents suggest is a growing lack of awareness and care by American citizens and institutions. We have lost much of the “see something, say something” mentality of the early post-9/11 era. This obliviousness is evident not only in our response to jihadi threats but also in our ignoring many criminal and anti-Semitic threats.

As I know from a decade spent studying, teaching, and working in counterterrorism, identifying and combating radicalization is frustrating and difficult work. The world is full of unstable individuals and brimming with jihadi rhetoric and literature.

We have yet to learn whether authorities missed any crucial signals leading up to Jabbar’s attack. But in our current relaxed milieu, it’s easy to imagine. We have convinced ourselves that vigilance is just another symptom of our Western privilege. This was evident in June, when we allowed pro-Hamas “protesters” to block gay pride marches from Boston to Philadelphia to Denver.

The sight of anyone flying the flag of a designated terror group in American streets warrants calling in a lead to law enforcement. There is no such thing as benign terror support. And while most of the deluded, ignorant anti-Zionist protesters who have waved Hamas or Hezbollah flags won’t go on to drive trucks into crowds, there is no way to find out who will without investigating.

Government officials have let down their guard. Last June, the Department of Homeland Security belatedly identified more than 400 migrants smuggled into the U.S. by an ISIS-affiliated network. Record-breaking illegal border crossings in recent years demonstrate a collapse of institutional vigilance.

We’ve also stopped responding to leads when it comes to ordinary criminal violence. Just two weeks before Darrell Brooks killed six people by driving through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, in 2021, he threatened, punched, and drove over his then-girlfriend. In 2020, Brooks had been charged with three felonies—including shooting at his own nephew—but was ultimately released on a cash bond of just $500. And this followed more than two decades of convictions, for which Brooks served minimal prison time and frequently received early release.

When the criminal-justice system ignores so many signs that someone is dangerous, it’s no wonder that citizens drop their guard, too. Recent weeks have seen several horrific New York City subway attacks by disturbed individuals. But New Yorkers have become so accustomed to erratic behavior underground—from fare evasion to drug use to physical assault—that most of these red flags also go unreported.

We have also stopped “saying something” when we “see something” anti-Semitic. Students at elite universities and high schools across the country have been subjected to hundreds of incidents of harassment over the past year just for the sin of being Jewish. Too many of us write off these incidents as mere “anti-Zionism.” And when such incidents do get reported, too many institutions—like the City University of New York—lack official policies recognizing them as anti-Semitism.

We’ve yet to learn the full story about the New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks. There may be good reasons for why these individuals slipped through the cracks. Still, the evidence of our indifference, public and institutional, to dangerous threats is too abundant to ignore. It is a recipe for more carnage in the future.

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One of the other obstacles in the way is that many institutions, including government and academia have been captured by intersectional ideology and are in full-blown denial.

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Driver with ISIS flag crashes into New Orleans crowd, killing 15

A US Army veteran who displayed an ISIS flag on his truck crashed into New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people, according to Reuters.

The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas who once served in Afghanistan, was killed in a shootout with police after ramming into the crowd. He may have had help from others, officials said.

An ISIS flag was waving on a pole protruding from the trailer of the rental car, prompting an investigation into possible links to terrorist organisations, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Alethea Duncan, said.

We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible. We are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates.

Around 30 other people were injured in the attack, including two police officers who were wounded in the shooting. It occurred at around 3:15 a.m. (09:15 GMT) near the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets. Police recovered weapons and defused a potential explosive device in a car, as well as two potential explosive devices in the French Quarter, according to the FBI.

CNN, citing officials briefed on the investigation, reported that the suspect recorded videos in which he mentioned dreams of joining ISIS and considered killing his family after a divorce. Even though ISIS is weakening locally, it continues to recruit adherents online, experts say.

About 400 officers were on duty in the French Quarter at the time of the incident, including those who erected an improvised barrier to prevent anyone from entering the pedestrian zone, police reported. Steel barriers were being removed and replaced in New Orleans in response to vehicle attacks on pedestrian malls around the world. The construction was supposed to be completed by the Super Bowl.

Read more HERE

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UK Government changes US travel guidance after New Orleans attack

The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) has updated its travel guidance for the USA following a devastating New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans. Officials report that 15 people were killed, with many others injured, when a truck drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street early Wednesday, January 1. The FBI has identified the driver as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42 year old US…

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New Orleans Attack ESCALATES - Exposed As Democrat Voter

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Authorities conduct searches in probe of truck attack that killed at least 15

The FBI said late Wednesday authorities were conducting search warrants in New Orleans, Louisiana, and states outside Louisiana as they investigate the attack in which a driver crashed a pickup truck into a crowd and opened fire, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 30. Investigators were still working late Wednesday to gather evidence at the scene of the early morning New Year’s Day…

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Donald Trump addresses the tragic New Orleans attack, urging Americans to remain vigilant and united in the face of terror.