Truck Jabbar Used Crossed into Texas from Mexico

 The New York Times reports that the suspect in this morning’s terrorist attack in New Orleans has been identified as Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar. (See my earlier post on initial details about the attack.)

Jabbar apparently died in the aftermath of the truck-ramming attack in which he killed at least ten people and injured dozens of others, and engaged in a shootout with police afterwards. I don’t know anything reliable regarding Jabbar’s background at this writing. (In an earlier post, I noted a report that said the number of dead had risen to a dozen. Most of the reporting I’ve reviewed continues to say “at least 10,” so it’s probably better to go with that until we know more.)

Meantime, Fox News is reporting that the white pickup truck Jabbar used in the massacre was spotted crossing the Mexican border into Texas in November.

Reportedly, the truck bore a Texas license plate and was tracked crossing into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, a notorious crossing in the Biden-era border collapse.

According to the Times, the vehicle is registered to a 42-year-old Houston resident. It is also not publicly known at this time whether Jabbar is the registered owner of the truck, nor whether he had any role in its crossing into the U.S. from Mexico. I have also seen no confirmation on whether, as noted in the earlier post, a black flag was flying from the back of the truck at the time of the attack, though the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate cites a source as saying that “Jabbar was carrying an ISIS flag in the truck”

The Times also reports that Jabbar appears to have possessed at least one IED, and that the massacre is being investigated by the FBI as a terrorist attack. Notwithstanding that (as I detailed in the earlier post), the FBI official running the investigation, Agent Alethea Duncan (the head of the bureau’s local field office), initially took pains to say that as of early Wednesday afternoon, the bureau did not consider the incident a “terrorist event” at this preliminary investigative stage.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dead-terror-suspect-identified-as-shamsud-din-bahar-jabbar-and-truck-he-used-crossed-into-texas-from-mexico-two-days-ago/