Chilling first-person video shows ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s view of New Orleans during a scouting trip ahead of his New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street.
The FBI released footage Sunday that Jabbar recorded with Meta smart glasses during a trip to the French Quarter.
He was wearing the same glasses when he rammed his rented truck down the famed street and killed 14 people and wounded dozens others.
And now the FBI says he could have killed even more people with IEDs he planted around the packed tourist-district — but cops killed him before he could reach the remote detonator.
“We believe that the transmitter would have functioned, and would have worked, but for New Orleans PD putting him down before he could get access to that transmitter and set off the devices,” said Joshua Jackson, Special Agent in Charge for the New Orleans Field Division.
Investigators are still working to uncover how Jabbar managed to make the bombs, which were built with a “very rare explosive compound” that had never before been used in a terrorist attack in the US or Europe, NBC News reported.
Officials did not say what the material was or how Jabbar, who had previously served in the military, was able to concoct iit in his Texas home where he kept a bomb-making workbench.
Other newly-released videos show Jabbar placing the bombs, which had been hidden in plastic coolers, hours before the attack.
Jabbar rigged the explosives with makeshift remote detonators cobbled together from readily available materials, including electric matches, or “hobby switches.”
He had apparently planned to activate the bombs from a transmitter in his truck, officials said.
Jabbar uploaded a series of videos to Meta-owned Facebook minutes before the attack. In the footage, the pledged allegiance to ISIS and said he wanted to fight a war against nonbelievers, according to the FBI.
FBI New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil also outlined Jabbar’s movements in the months leading up to his well-planned rampage.
Jabbar traveled to the Big Easy from his home Houston two times before the attack: Once on October 30 for at least two days, and a second time on November 10.
“ We are still piecing together the details of that [November] trip,” Myrthil said.
On Dec. 31, the day before the attack, security camera footage showed Jabbar at several Texas gun stores.
At one, he bought the weapon he fired at police after crashing the truck.
The FBI also confirmed that Jabbar traveled to Egypt for a week and a half beginning on June 22, 2023 He traveled to Ontario, Canada in a different trip in July of that year.
He had also made a trip to Tampa, Florida, authorities said.
Sixteen of Jabbar’s victims remain hospitalized, with eight of the victims still in the intensive care unit. Two officers were also wounded in the shootout.
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