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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Islamist chair appears to have returned to the United States with an attack in New Orleans on

New Year's Day morning that killed 15 and injured dozens more. What do we know about

Shamsa Din Jabbar and his motives for driving a truck through pedestrians on Bourbon Street?

Plus, the 119th Congress convenes on Friday with Speaker Mike Johnson's hold on his job still in doubt.

What happens if he loses that vote and what would it tell us about the Republican ability to govern with both houses of Congress

and the White House under their control. Welcome to Potomac Watch and happy New Year. I'm Paul

as you go, the editor of the Wall Street Journal Opinion Pages, and I'm here with colleagues Bill McGern

and Kyle Peterson to kick off the new year and a sad one with the attack in New Orleans.

The FBI has identified the driver of the truck that sped around a police car barricade and down

a sidewalk and killed 15 people as 42-year-old Texan and Army veteran Shamsuddin Jabbar. Police say traveled from the Houston area

where he was active in a local mosque to New Orleans to carry out his attack. Details have been

coming with some caution, but trickling out Thursday, the FBI had another press conference

and made it clear that Jabbar had posted

messages saying that he was loyal to ISIS or Islamic State.

An ISIS flag was on his truck.

So it would appear that his motivation was Islamist radicalism inspired by Islamist state.

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