Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver behind the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s, researched New Orleans and the deadly Christmas market attack in Germany in the hours and weeks before the attack, the FBI said in an update Tuesday.




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New Orleans attacker searched for Mardi Gras, German Christmas market rampage: FBI

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The says that before driving into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, the man who carried out the deadly attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street.

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New Orleans attacker had researched similar violent rampage and how to access Bourbon St. balcony

An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left crucial gaps on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.

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How New Orleans failed to protect Bourbon Street from attack, block by block

The FBI also increased the number of those injured in the New Orleans New Year's Day attack to 57 people.

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Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the driver behind the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s, researched New Orleans and the deadly Christmas market attack in Germany in the hours and weeks before the attack, the FBI said in an update Tuesday.

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BATON ROUGE, La.—Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the ISIS terrorist group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the FBI said.
Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s rampage, the FBI continues to uncover new in…

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New Orleans Attacker Had Researched Similar Violent Rampage and How to Access Bourbon St. Balcony

The FBI also said on Tuesday that Shamsud-Din Jabbar had searched online for information about an attack at a Christmas market in Germany just hours before he drove into crowds in New Orleans.

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New Orleans attacker looked up how to access balcony on Bourbon Street, FBI says

In the aftermath of the ISIS-inspired terror attack committed by a man who plowed his truck through a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers and killed 14 people in New Orleans, some of Donald Trump’s allies have suggested the FBI failed to prevent the attack because the agency was too focused on white su...

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BATON ROUGE — Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city's famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the FBI said. 
Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar's rampage, the FBI continues to uncover new infor…

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New Orleans attacker had researched similar rampage, and how to access Bourbon Street balcony

As New Orleans officials deployed to protect thousands of revellers they knew would flock to the city's famed French Quarter on New Year's Eve, they parked a police SUV to block the main entrance to Bourbon Street, a packed pedestrian thoroughfare long seen as vulnerable to a vehicular-ramming attack.

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There were a lot of shortcomings in the security measures on New Year's Eve in the entertainment district of New Orleans. This is evident from an investigation by the newspaper The Washington Post. The perpetrator of the attack, who ran over dozens of people, had virtually free rein.

Er schortte heel wat aan de veiligheidsmaatregelen op oudejaarsavond in de uitgaansbuurt in New Orleans. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van de krant The Washington Post. De dader van de aanslag, die tientallen mensen omverreed, had zo goed als vrij spel.

New Orleans attacker searched for Mardi Gras, German Christmas market rampage: FBI

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