New Orleans attacker filmed loading terror truck containing ISIS flag with weapons & bomb cooler hours before killing 14
CCTV footage of the terrorist from New Orleans packing his truck with bombs and guns while carrying the ISIS flag has surfaced.
Just hours before he crashed his pickup truck into a group of New Year’s Day revelers, US Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar was captured on camera outside his Airbnb home.
Jabbar can be seen getting ready for the devastating attack that shook New Orleans on New Year’s Day in footage that CNN was able to get.
Jabbar is spotted circling the same pickup truck he used to carry out the terror attack just a few hours prior to the rampage.
At the rear of the Ford F-150 Lightning, he is then seen loading what look to be explosives and guns.
Just two miles from the Bourbon Street sites where he conducted the attack, the automobile was parked outside his Airbnb accommodation.
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It is known that Jabbar used the Turo carsharing service to pick up the Ford pickup truck from Houston on December 30.
On New Year’s Eve, the car was seen traveling to New Orleans from Baytown, Texas.
The truck resurfaced a few hours later in the busy French Quarter of the city, which was crowded with revelers commemorating the beginning of 2025.
The horrifying assault then began on Wednesday at approximately 3:15 a.m., when Jabbar seemed to drive up Canal Street before turning onto Bourbon Street.
The motorist is shown in terrifying video swerving around barricades erected to prevent cars from passing before accelerating and colliding with dozens of people.
Police think Jabbar was attempting to “run over as many people as he possibly could” when he purposefully struck partygoers with the white pickup.
Following the incident, a furious gunfight with the police resulted in his death.
Prior to the summer, Jabbar, a former sergeant who had served in Afghanistan, swore loyalty to ISIS, according to the FBI.
A large ISIS flag that was fastened to the rear of the pickup vehicle was also discovered by investigators.
Hours before the attack, Jabbar posted five videos onsocial mediawhere he proclaimed his support forISISas he traveled fromHoustonto New Orleans on the evening of December 31.
In the first video, Jabbar, 42, explained how he initially planned to call his family and ex-wife for a “celebration” withplans to kill them together.
However, he later revealed that he pivoted his attack because he wanted news headlines to focus on the war between the believers and the disbelievers”, said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI s Counterterrorism Division.
Jabbar was “100% inspired by ISIS,” according to the FBI.
The investigation into Jabbar’s past and the factors that led to the US Army veteran’s radicalization is still ongoing.
US law enforcement and intelligence agencies are now concerned about copycat vehicle ramming attacks, according to a Reuters report.
An intelligence bulletin was released. The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and the US National Counterterrorism Center said: “[We] are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory attacks.
“[Such attacks] are likely to remain attractive for aspiring attackers given vehicles’ ease of acquisition and the low skill threshold necessary to conduct an attacks.”
Jabbar was a US Army veteran who served for more than 10 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan in 2009.
He studied information technology, recently held a six-figure job and converted to Islam after being brought up Christian.
A man named Abdur Jabbar in Beaumont, Texas told The New York Times he was the suspect’s brother.
He described Jabbar as a sweetheart really, a nice guy, a friend, really smart, caring .
He said Jabber had converted to Islam at a young age, but that what he did does not represent Islam.
“This is more some type of radicalisation, not religion.”
Alethea Duncan of the FBI said: We believe he was honorably discharged, but we are working through this process, figuring out all this information.
A US Army spokesperson confirmed to ABC that Jabbar served in human resources and information technology roles from 2007 to 2015 in the army, but he was not involved in direct combat.
He then continued as an IT specialist in the Army Reserve from 2015 to 2020, the spokesperson said, and left at the rank of staff sergeant.
Jabbar enlisted in the Navy in August 2024, 5 months before the attack, but did not go to boot camp and was discharged from the programme a month later, a Navy spokesperson said.
Former army commander Rich Groen wholed Jabbar during his posting in Afghanistan said he was a “professional soldier”.
He wrote on X/Twitter: “Shamsud-Din Jabbar served under my Troop Command during our deployment to Afghanistan.
“He was a great Soldier, someone who showed discipline and dedication. He worked quietly and professionally in the S1 shop and as a mail clerk, ensuring the little things that kept us all connected to home were done with care and precision.
Mr Groen said he was left in “utter disbelief” following the tragic attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people and left dozens of others injured.
“To think that the same individual who once embodied quiet professionalism could harbor so much hate, leading to such unspeakable atrocities, is incomprehensible and heartbreaking,” he said.
“As I process the devastating events that unfolded in New Orleans, I am in utter disbelief,” the former army boss added.
The New York Times reported that Jabbar has been arrested twice: once in Katy, Texas, for theft in 2002, and once in 2005 for driving with an invalid licence.
In both cases, he was fined $100 by the court.
The New York Post has reported that Jabba was living in a run-down trailer park on the outskirts of Houston where he kept sheep and goats in the yard.
One neighbour, Francois Venegas, described Jabbar as a simple person who kept to himself but said they would occasionally exchange words on the street.
Venegas said: [He was] pretty quiet Just walking, [he would say] hello, hola, and that was it.
Photos of the place he is thought to have lived show a squalid static home surrounded by dirty animal cages.
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According to the paper, geese, chickens, goats and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar s yard when they visited it.
The site was later cordoned off by police.
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