GAC06 said:

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Why did he choose 3am for the attack instead of closer to midnight when the street would have been packed?

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ccolley68 said:

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Doubt he was setting out yetis that tend to grow legs the fastest.

I get the sentiment, but even if someone was interested in stealing the cooler, what are they going to do with it, just walk around bourbon st with a cooler?

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GAC06 said:

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Why did he choose 3am for the attack instead of closer to midnight when the street would have been packed?

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According to reports I have seen, he was not placing the coolers with IEDs until well after midnight past one o'clock nearing two. Maybe he needed to do some final assembly? And that put him behind?

I have not seen any photos of the AirBNB that burned that was reportedly connected to him. How far away from the French Quarter was that located? Where did he park the truck on side streets to walk the coolers into position on Bourbon?

I still tend to lean into the narrative that he miscalculated the range on the remote detonators and then had to use the truck to get closer.

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Frok said:

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Maybe the bombs were his original plan but they failed so he got frustrated and instead just barreled down the street trying to run people over.

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Transmitter for the bombs was in his truck. My guess is either he wanted to detonate them as he passed them, or he intended to blow them after hitting people at those locations when people were responding with assistance to the injured.

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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - Investigators have returned to the home of Shamsud-Din Jabbar in north Harris County on Friday to collect evidence, sources say. Jabbar was killed by officers after he drove a truck down New Orleans' Bourbon Street on New Year's Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more, the FBI reported.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office bomb squad along with four unmarked SUVs returned to the address with large evidence collection trucks to gather items and evidence, sources reported.

Authorities are returning a day after Jabbar's home was left open and people were seen videoing inside the home and roaming around.

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Transmitter for the bombs was in his truck. My guess is either he wanted to detonate them as he passed them, or he intended to blow them after hitting people at those locations when people were responding with assistance to the injured.

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That was my thought. Blow them as he passes to cut off pursuit and cause mass damage. People will rush to check on injuries and be vulnerable to the explosives

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TheAggiesAreWe03 said:

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mpl35 said:

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FTAG 2000 said:

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Transmitter for the bombs was in his truck. My guess is either he wanted to detonate them as he passed them, or he intended to blow them after hitting people at those locations when people were responding with assistance to the injured.

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That was my thought. Blow them as he passes to cut off pursuit and cause mass damage. People will rush to check on injuries and be vulnerable to the explosives

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My thought is maybe he wanted to detonate them BEFORE turning down the street. Would've sent a massive wave of people running toward him as he mowed them down.

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Mr. Jabbar's father grew up as Christian but later turned to Islam, changing his last name from Young to Jabbar and also giving some of his children Arabic names.

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His electric truck was already headed toward New Orleans, traveling from his trailer home outside Houston and past the twinkling oil refineries to the east, when Shamsud-Din Jabbar began capturing a video on his phone in the dark.

"I wanted to record this message for my family," Mr. Jabbar said. "I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year."

Mr. Jabbar then added a chilling addendum.

"I don't want you to think I spared you willingly," he said, according to details of the video reviewed by The New York Times. He told his family that he had previously conceived of organizing a "celebration" for them and then making everyone "witness the killing of the apostates."

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Many who lived in the area said they worried about the new attention brought to their community and were frustrated that they were now being connected to Mr. Jabbar simply because he had lived, in the last months of his life, just down the street.

"He wasn't a member of this congregation, he wasn't someone that used to come here, and he had no part in this community whatsoever," said Mohammed Khan, a member of the Bilal Mosque. Online anti-Muslim vitriol since the attack has only deepened their concerns, he added.

Inside the mosque, Ayman Kabire of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, who served as the imam on Friday, condemned Mr. Jabbar's attack, reminding those gathered that their faith was rooted in peace.

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Recordings about Islamic teachings were posted to an account on the audio website SoundCloud that appears to belong to Mr. Jabbar; the voice was verified by his half brother. In one of them, he warned that music had the power to lure people "into the things that God had made forbidden to us," such as alcohol, marijuana, vulgarity and crime.

The recording goes on to suggest a connection between the release of "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," a rap album by 50 Cent, and a series of murders in his neighborhood. He said he worried that Muslims listening to such music were being drawn into evil.

"And the voice of Satan spreading among Prophet Muhammad's followers peace be upon him is a sign of the end times," he said in the message about a year ago, in early 2024.

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BMX Bandit said:

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What's the source on that?

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Old Army Ghost said:

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BMX Bandit said:

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What's the source on that?

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The driver who killed 14 people in an ISIS-inspired vehicular attack in New Orleans used a very rare explosive compound in two homemade bombs that did not detonate, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.

The explosive has never been used in a U.S. terrorist attack or incident, nor in a European one, the officials said. A key question for investigators now is how Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the attacker, learned about the explosive and how he managed to produce it.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-attack-transmitter-explosive-devices-fire-airbnb-fbi-rcna186223

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