Shamsud-Din Jabbar was working alone when he carried out the New Year’s Day New Orleans attack that killed 15 people and injured 30 others, the FBI said today at a briefing. “We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except for Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the subject you’ve already been briefed on,” said Deputy Assistant Christopher Raia with the bureau’s Counterterrorism Division. The FBI is investigating the incident as an act of terrorism. Jabbar, 42, is believed to have driven a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street and a key line of inquiry is whether the attack was orchestrated or inspired by a foreign terrorist group.
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