Louisiana Lt. Gov. Rips Mayor Over Missing Barriers in Bourbon St. Terrorist Attack: 'An Embarrassment'

Officials in New Orleans, Louisiana, provided an update on the investigation into the New Year’s Day terrorist attack by Shamsud-Din Jabbar during a press conference on a late Sunday morning.

The FBI and ATF Special Agents in Charge (SACs) shared various details, including the fact that Jabbar had traveled to Egypt and Canada in 2023 and had conducted at least two reconnaissance missions in New Orleans before the attack.

During his visits to New Orleans in October, Jabbar used Meta smart glasses while riding a bike to capture footage of the French Quarter. He was also wearing the glasses during the attack, although they were not being used to livestream the event.


READ MORE: NEW: Suspect in Bourbon Street Attack Traveled to Egypt and Canada in 2023; Added Info on Fire, Weapons


During the press conference, FBI SAC Lyonel Myrthil referred to several clips of surveillance video that showed Jabbar in the hours leading up to the attack. 

The first three to four seconds of the clip above purports to show Jabbar looking in the mirror while wearing the Meta glasses. 

Then, there is about a minute of surveillance video of Jabbar out on the street with a wheeled cooler as he prepared to place one of the IEDs. (Per the stated timeline provided by Myrthil, this would have been sometime prior to 1:53 a.m. on January 1.) We see Jabbar, in a long tan coat, with what appears to be a phone in his right hand, holding onto the cooler handle with his left. He appears to be waiting for something (or someone?) and checking his phone. After about 40 seconds, he starts walking, towing the cooler. We then see him at what appears to be a slightly different location, next to a trashcan, cooler still in tow, phone still in hand. At the 54-second mark, he looks up and appears to be waving at someone (in the general vicinity of the surveillance camera). After that, he steps off the curb, leaving the cooler behind. 

Next, we see Jabbar walking in the street, carrying a blue bucket-style cooler in his right hand. Per the stated timeline, this would be sometime prior to 2:20 a.m. And, of course, we know by 3:15 a.m., he was back behind the wheel of the Ford F-150, barreling down Bourbon Street. 

As noted in the presser, authorities now believe that the individual(s) who moved the first cooler from the point where Jabbar left it at Bourbon and St. Peter to Bourbon and Orleans (initially thought to be accomplices of Jabbar) were simply “unknowing Bourbon Street visitors [who] grabbed the cooler’s handle and moved it.” Odd and flukey, no doubt. But considering the hour and the setting, not all that difficult to believe. 

But the big question here is to whom was Jabbar waving as he left the first cooler? Does that not imply that he was working with someone else? Is it possible he knew the surveillance camera was there and was waving to it (rather than a person) simply to draw attention to his presence at the location after the fact? Sure. It’s possible. But why would someone who purportedly set fire to the rental home where he was staying in a bid to destroy evidence go out of his way to draw attention to himself leaving an IED (which he, presumably, intended to detonate)? 

Something really does not add up here. I guess we’ll have to add this to the list. 

The full footage released by the FBI (thus far) may be viewed below: 

   

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