Thread: Ten dead after car plows into crowd at New Orleans New Year's Day celebration

Some background on the murderous islamist pig.

The New Orleans New Year terrorist was a Texas-born US citizen who served in the US military, it has emerged.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, was named by the FBI as being responsible for the car ramming attack which left 15 people dead and at least 35 more injured.

According to some reports, he had also made a series of video recordings sometime before Wednesday morning, which authorities are currently investigating. In one, he said he had several dreams telling him to join ISIS.

It was not clear if Jabbar himself recorded them on his mobile phone, but they were made as he drove from Texas to Louisiana.

The report said it was dark when the recording was made, though the timing was not immediately revealed.

In the recordings, Jabbar made reference to his divorce and how he had at first planned to gather his family for a “celebration” to kill them, officials said.

He also said he changed his plans and joined ISIS, apparently after having several dreams telling him to do so.

Details of his background began to emerge after he was killed by police, including his life as an estate agent, his divorce and his financial troubles.

Jabbar had served in the US Army for 10 years. His military record included a deployment to Afghanistan.

The FBI said Jabbar is believed to have been honourably discharged and the Pentagon is said to be poring through its records to locate more information about his services and where he had been based.


It appears Jabbar had been working as a property manager and real estate agent less than four years ago.


Jabbar, whose truck was carrying a home-made Islamic State (IS) flag, made a legal filing in August 2022 as part of a divorce proceeding, according to the New York Times.

In it he said he worked at the accounting firm Deloitte and made about $120,000 a year.

He was in considerable financial problems, he owed more than $27,000 in late home payments and was at risk of foreclosure, he said, and that he had taken on $16,000 in credit card debt because of his living expenses.

Meanwhile, criminal records reported by The New York Times showed that Jabbar had two previous charges for minor offences - one in 2002 for theft and another in 2005 for driving with an invalid licence.

A search by RocketReach suggests, Jabbar was educated at Central Texas College from 2008-2010, where he obtained an associate’s degree in IT.

He then received a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems from Georgia State University, where he studied between 2015-2017.

On Wednesday morning, Alethea Duncan, the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the investigation, told a press conference: “We do not believe that Jabbar was solely responsible” for Wednesday’s attack.

Reports said federal agents were positioned at the home of Jabbar’s second wife in north Houston on Wednesday.


The New York Times said her new husband, Dwayne Marsh, said Jabbar had begun to convert to Islam within the last year and was “being all crazy”. He said that Jabbar had two daughters, one a teenager and one a young adult, and that they were “a mess” after the attack.

A man named Abdur Jabbar, in Beaumont, Texas, told The New York Times he was Jabbar’s brother and described him 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”.


The Associated Press said a photograph circulated among law enforcement officials in New Orleans showed a bearded Jabbar wearing camouflage, lying next to the truck after he was killed by police.

Reports said an IS flag was with him in his truck. Images from the scene showed a homemade “flag” consisting of a piece of white plastic, attached to the vehicle, with a grey puffer jacket wrapped around it.

It was not clear if that was the flag officials referred to in various reports.

Officials said they were able to recover a handgun and an AR-15 style rifle from the white Ford F-150 Lightning electric pick-up truck.

The vehicle had been registered to a different man from Texas, but had been listed on Turo, a website that allows owners to rent out their vehicles to other people. The vehicle was not owned by the suspect.

The FBI said in its statement a potential improvised explosive device was located in the vehicle, and that other potential explosive devices were found in the area of the attack separate from where the man rammed the crowd.

The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. Officials also believe Jabbar was not working alone. It is not clear how or when he became radicalised.

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Originally Posted by 39TG

one wonders if this is another DEI fxck up.

By one, ​you mean you?

Trump blames Biden and his ‘thugs’ for ‘radical Islamic terrorism’

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

With the Biden “Open Border’s Policy” I said, many times during Rallies, and elsewhere, that Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined. Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER. What he and his group of Election Interfering “thugs” have done to our Country will not soon be forgotten! MAGA

Donald Trump has blamed Joe Biden for allowing “radical Islamic terrorism” to become “worse than ever imagined” in the wake of two suspected terror attacks on New Year’s Day.

The President-elect called for “powerful leadership” and intervention from the CIA, claiming the Biden administration’s immigration policies had made the US “a laughing stock all over the world”.

“This is what happens when you have open borders, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

Security has been heightened around “relevant locations” in New York such as Trump Tower and Times Square in response to the New Year’s Day attacks, the city’s mayor has announced.

Authorities are investigating a possible military connection between the suspect in the New Orleans attack and the driver in a Cybertruck explosion outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, 42, a US army veteran with suspected links to Islamic State, sped into a crowd on Bourbon Street, New Orleans, in the early hours of Wednesday, killing 15 people and injuring at least 35.

The driver in the Las Vegas explosion has meanwhile been named locally as special forces soldier Matthew Livelsberger, 37, from Colorado Springs, sources told NBC News.

Police said both men used the same car-sharing app to rent the vehicles. It remains unclear whether the drivers crossed paths during their time in the military.
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hard to argue with mr. trump on that point as i'm sure most posters will agree.

Originally Posted by taxexile

hard to argue with mr. trump on that point as i'm sure most posters will agree.

No, I can not agree with the orange face because

Originally Posted by taxexile

The New Orleans New Year terrorist was a Texas-born US citizen who served in the US military, it has emerged.

he was not an immigrant.

Been confirmed by FBI recently that there is no link between the bomb in the TESLA and New Orleans ramming even though there are similarities.



Authorities said Thursday they have found "no definitive link" between the New Orleans attack on New Year's Day and the explosion in a Tesla Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas. “At this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas,” Chris Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, said at a news conference in New Orleans.

‘No definitive link’ found between New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion, FBI says

Originally Posted by taxexile

hard to argue with mr. trump on that point as i'm sure most posters will agree.

Don't agree at all. With Trump in office now, there will be way more of these attacks from radicals considering Trump wants to get rid of immigrants from the US.

Originally Posted by OrangeBuffoon

....Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe. That time has come, only worse than ever imagined.

Originally Posted by taxexile

hard to argue with mr. trump on that point as i'm sure most posters will agree.

Yes, much like the village idiot, ranting on the street corner, it is hard to argue with his incoherent babbling.

Originally Posted by Molle

he was not an immigrant.

Maybe not, but he definitely didn't like Trump it seems like. I mean why blow up a TESLA outside of Trump tower other than to send a message imo.

Aspiring nurse, former football star and father of 2 among the dead in New Orleans truck attack | CBC News

RIP to the victims in these senseless murders. So terribly sad and wrong. Could have been you or me or anyone who was in that area that night.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Maybe not, but he definitely didn't like Trump it seems like. I mean why blow up a TESLA outside of Trump tower other than to send a message imo.

There are plenty of MAGA Morons ready, and willing to do his dirty work.

Reporter attacked by man yelling, “ This is Trump’s America now!”

Reporter allegedly attacked by man saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’ | Colorado | The Guardian

Originally Posted by beachbound

There are plenty of MAGA Morons ready, and willing to do his dirty work.

Reporter attacked by man yelling, “ This is Trump’s America now!”

That's terrible, I think we will see more of this violence and radicalism once Trump takes office.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

he definitely didn't like Trump it seems like.

We need more insightful analysis like this.

Originally Posted by Molle

he was not an immigrant.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Maybe not, but he definitely didn't like Trump it seems like. I mean why blow up a TESLA outside of Trump tower other than to send a message imo.

They guy who plowed into people in New Orleans and got killed there did also die when blowing up a Tesla outside Trump tower?
He must have had a busy day..

So far it’s looking like the dead man in Las Vegas committed suicide with a blast. And, he was a Trump fan. Not sure how Trump will blame Biden for this one.

Originally Posted by misskit

So far it’s looking like the dead man in Las Vegas committed suicide with a blast. And, he was a Trump fan. Not sure how Trump will blame Biden for this one.

He will.

Originally Posted by misskit

So far it’s looking like the dead man in Las Vegas committed suicide with a blast. And, he was a Trump fan. Not sure how Trump will blame Biden for this one.

Simply vile to try to make political capital out of extremist attacks.

That Tesla Cybertruck has always looked rubbish and owners seem not to have liked them. However, when I looked at the pictures I thought it strange that the glass doors of Trump Hotel appeared intact after an explosion in the confined space of the porte cochere. It seems the Tesla contained much of the blast and most of the energy went up rather than sideways. So the Cybertruck is useful, if only as an improvised bomb container.
The culprit, Livelsberger, was in Special Forces Intelligence. Fitting then that he failed to do his research. Simply trying to get Musk and Trump in one hit?

Not good.

Rare explosive found in New Orleans attack

Federal investigators examining the ISIS-inspired terror attack that killed 14 in New Orleans report that Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in the two functional IEDs placed prior to the vehicle-ramming attack. Authorities are investigating how Jabbar acquired the knowledge to create this homemade explosive, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter.


Those officials say that the explosive has never been used in a U.S. terror attack or incident, nor in any European terror attack.


A key question for investigators is how Jabbar learned about the compound and how he managed to produce it. It remains unclear why the IEDs failed to detonate. Investigators are exploring whether it was due to a malfunction, a lack of triggering, or another factor entirely.


The FBI has stated that the investigation remains ongoing and it has not changed its posture that Jabbar acted alone.

Live updates: Probe into terror driver'''s background continues as French Quarter reopens

Soldier who died in Cybertruck left writing criticizing government, authorities say

A decorated Army veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder called U.S. government leadership “weak” and appeared to acknowledge he purposely blew up a Tesla Cybertruck at the entrance of the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on New Year’s Day, police said Friday.


Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said investigators were able to access one of two phones found in the Cybertruck and viewed writing in an app that seemed to serve as a journal, documenting some of Matthew Alan Livelsberger’s movements and state of mind from Dec. 21 to New Year’s Eve.


Two letters in the phone app suggest a possible motive in the blast, Koren said. In one letter, he tells “fellow service members, veterans and all Americans” it’s time to “wake up” because the country’s leadership is “weak” and “only serves to enrich themselves.”


A second letter appeared to shed more light on Livelsberger’s thinking.


“We are the United States of America, the best country ... to ever exist, but right now, we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse,” a second letter said. “This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives. ... I need to cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost, and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.”


Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, added that the investigation along with a consultation with the Army determined that Livelsberger likely had post-traumatic stress disorder, and that investigators are aware that there were potential “family issues or personal grievances in his own life that may have been contributing factors.”


Livelsberger expressed other grievances, including about conflicts elsewhere in the world, and domestic and societal issues, Koren said. He cautioned that investigators continue to go through evidence found on the cellphone, and Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators have been unable to access a second phone found in the Cybertruck.


Evans said authorities have not established any firm connections between the Cybertruck explosion and the alleged terrorist attack that occurred in New Orleans hours earlier that killed 14 people on Bourbon Street.


The only links investigators have established appeared incidental and coincidental, including that both suspects rented their vehicles from the same company.


Livelsberger also held no animosity toward President-elect Donald Trump, Evans said.


Livelsberger was definitively identified on Thursday as the suspect behind the blast, Las Vegas police said. The Clark County coroner determined that he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.


Authorities said they were able to identify Livelsberger’s badly burned body through various means, including family DNA and tattoos.


Livelsberger, 37, was on approved leave from the military when he rented a Tesla Cybertruck and drove from Colorado to Las Vegas, according to law enforcement officials. Fireworks and gas in the bed of that truck would later ignite after he parked it just outside of the Trump hotel’s entrance.


People who served with Liverlsberger throughout his nearly two decades in uniform described him as a dedicated, patriotic soldier and good teammate. Two soldiers who served with him in recent years both expressed surprise at his actions, one saying that he was “not a violent person.”

Soldier who died in Cybertruck left writing criticizing government, authorities say

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This is from the Shawn Ryan podcast, talking about that email/manifesto. Disturbing

No fucking way that guy killed himself.

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Matthew Livelsberger Alleged Manifesto: Read Full Email Sent to Retired Soldier

Matthew Livelsberger, a Green Beret and the main suspect in the Cybertruck attack in Las Vegas, reportedly sent a manifesto-like email to retired U.S. Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate just days before a car bomb exploded in front of Trump International Hotel.


Shoemate revealed the email on The Shawn Ryan Show podcast, describing its contents as allegations of advanced drone technology, a cover-up of a 2019 airstrike in Afghanistan, and claims of being under U.S. government surveillance.


Newsweek reached out to The Shawn Ryan Show for comment on Friday via email.


Why It Matters


Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found inside the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump's Las Vegas hotel early Wednesday. The blast resulted in a single casualty, the suspect inside the vehicle, and sparked a thorough investigation into potential terrorism.

Sheriff Kevin McMahill described the body in the Cybertruck as "almost beyond recognition." On Thursday, authorities identified the victim as Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old U.S. Army veteran, who reportedly shot himself in the head moments before the explosion.


While investigators are still determining Livelsberger's motives for detonating the explosives outside the hotel, his alleged manifesto has provided some clues. In the document, Livelsberger raised questions about national security and U.S. military transparency, offering potential insight into his actions.

What To Know


Livelsberger allegedly sent an email to retired U.S. Army intelligence officer Sam Shoemate, detailing concerns about advanced drones using "GDIC propulsion systems," which he described as anti-gravity technology.


In the email, read on "The Shawn Ryan Podcast," Livelsberger claimed that the U.S. and China developed and deployed the drones. He alleged that China launched them from submarines along the U.S. East Coast, calling them "the most dangerous threat to national security" because of their stealth, ability to evade detection and unlimited payload capacity.


Livelsberger also referenced his involvement in a 2019 U.S. airstrike in Nimruz Province, Afghanistan. He claimed the operation, which targeted drug facilities, caused civilian casualties, including women and children, and was covered up by U.S. authorities. The allegations align with a 2019 U.N. report criticizing the strikes as unlawful. Livelsberger said the incident pushed him to speak out.


Additionally, he accused the FBI and Homeland Security of monitoring and tracking him, describing efforts to avoid being detained.


The only person who died as a result of the incident was the suspect, from a self-inflicted gunshot, according to police.

Is Manifesto Real?


After the alleged manifesto began circulating on social media following the podcast, reporters asked Las Vegas police and the FBI at a press conference if the suspect had written it. Authorities said they believe the letter shared by Shawn Ryan was authored by the bombing suspect.


What Does Manifesto Say?


Shoemate said Friday that he received an email from Livelsberger on Tuesday. According to Shoemate, the email said:


"In case I do not make it to my decision point or on to the Mexico border I am sending this now. Please do not release this until 1JAN and keep my identity private until then.


"First off I am not under duress or hostile influence or control. My first car was a 2006 Black Ford Mustang V6 for verification.




What we have been seeing with "drones" is the operational use of gravitic propulsion systems powered aircraft by most recently China in the east coast, but throughout history, the US. Only we and China have this capability. Our OPEN location for this activity in the box is below.


"China has been launching them from the Atlantic from submarines for years, but this activity recently has picked up. As of now, it is just a show of force and they are using it similar to how they used the balloon for sigint and isr, which are also part of the integrated coms system. There are dozens of those balloons in the air at any given time.


"The so what is because of the speed and stealth of these unmanned AC, they are the most dangerous threat to national security that has ever existed. They basically have an unlimited payload capacity and can park it over the WH if they wanted. It's checkmate.


"USG needs to give the history of this, how we are employing it and weaponizing it, how China is employing them and what the way forward is. China is poised to attack anywhere in the east coast.

"I've been followed for over a week now from likely homeland or FBI, and they are looking to move on me and are unlikely going to let me cross into Mexico, but won't because they know I am armed and I have a massive VBIED. I've been trying to maintain a very visible profile and have kept my phone and they are definitely digitally tracking me.


"I have knowledge of this program and also war crimes that were covered up during airstrikes in Nimruz province Afghanistan in 2019 by the admin, DoD, DEA and CIA. I conducted targeting for these strikes of over 125 buildings (65 were struck because of CIVCAS) that killed hundreds of civilians in a single day. USFORA continued strikes after spotting civilians on initial ISR, it was supposed to take 6 minutes and scramble all aircraft in CENTCOM.

The UN basically called these war crimes, but the administration made them disappear. I was part of that cover-up with USFORA and Agent [Redacted] of the DEA. So I don't know if my abduction attempt is related to either. I worked with GEN Millers 10 staff on this as well as the response to Bala Murghab. AOB-S Commander at the time. [Redacted] can validate this.


"You need to elevate this to the media so we avoid a world war because this is a mutually assured destruction situation.


"For vetting my Linkedin is Matt Berg or Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty 18Z out of 1-10 my profile is public. I have an active TSSCI with UAP USAP access."

What People Are Saying


Spencer Evans, FBI Special Agent in Charge, at a news conference: "Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who was struggling with PTSD and other issues."


Alicia Arritt, former girlfriend of Livelsberger, told the Associated Press: "He [Livelsberger] would go through periods of withdrawal, and he struggled with depression and memory loss."


Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on X, formerly Twitter: "The evil knuckleheads picked the wrong vehicle for a terrorist attack. Cybertruck actually contained the explosion and directed the blast upwards."

What Happens Next


Authorities are still working to determine a motive. Among the charred items found inside the truck were a handgun at Livelsberger's feet, another firearm, fireworks, a passport, a military ID, credit cards, an iPhone and a smartwatch, McMahill said. Authorities said both guns were purchased legally.


Investigators suspect Livelsberger may have been planning a more damaging attack, but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive.

Matthew Livelsberger Alleged Manifesto: Read Full Email Sent to Retired Soldier - Newsweek

Investigators suspect Livelsberger may have been planning a more damaging attack, but the steel-sided vehicle absorbed much of the force from the crudely built explosive.

A Green Beret, With 20 years of special forces experience, can construct something more than a “crudely built explosive.”

His military call sign, which he would be the only one with access to, was changed the day after the explosion.

Originally Posted by beachbound

A Green Beret, With 20 years of special forces experience, can construct something more than a “crudely built explosive.”

His military call sign, which he would be the only one with access to, was changed the day after the explosion.

Oh don't be silly, he was obviously a mentally ill trumpanzee and now all the bleach drinkers are trying to make excuses.

Originally Posted by BLD

This kinda thing will likely get worse once the orange bloke takes the reins?

You might have a point.

Prosecutors are fighting to keep a Virginia man behind bars after they say investigators found what could be the largest number of “finished explosive devices” in FBI history at his 20-acre home near Norfolk.
The man, Brad Spafford, was arrested earlier this month on one charge of possessing an illegal unregistered short-barrel rifle. During the arrest, the FBI – including bomb technicians – executed a search warrant on his property and found a stockpile of more than 150 apparent pipe bombs, which were x-rayed on the scene, according to prosecutors. Some were allegedly marked “lethal.”
Prosecutors say the pipe bombs were found in a backpack, a detached garage, and that a few “were preloaded into an apparent wearable vest.”
In court filings arguing that Spafford should remain jailed, prosecutors allege that Spafford used pictures of President Joe Biden for target practice, “expressed support for political assassinations, and recently sought qualifications in sniper-rifle shooting at a local range.”
After the assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, prosecutors wrote that Spafford “stated that he hoped the shooter doesn’t miss ‘Kamala’” in an apparent reference to the vice president in communications with his neighbor.
The investigation into Spafford started when his neighbor reported that he was allegedly stockpiling weapons and homemade ammo and had lost three fingers on his right hand in 2021 working with a homemade explosive device, prosecutors say.

Prosecutors say 150 pipe bombs found at Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of explosive devices | CNN Politics

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oh don't be silly, he was obviously a mentally ill trumpanzee and now all the bleach drinkers are trying to make excuses.

Yeah, what was I thinking. The US government could never pull off something so nefarious.

Originally Posted by beachbound

Yeah, what was I thinking. The US government could never pull off something so nefarious.

The rambling nonsense he wrote, the depression that had been diagnosed and the stressor of his missus kicking him out the week before makes it quite obvious he was a sandwich or two short of a picnic.