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starting off the new year in the worst possible way.

Norlands, grieving the loss of 14 people after an ISIS-inspired attack on Bourbon

Street of all places, while Las Vegas remains on edge following a bombing inside of a cyber

truck that was placed outside of a Trump hotel.

Authorities have the two as of now are not connected, but even they admit it's too early to say for sure.

If these turned out to be simply similarities, very strange similarities to have.

And so we're not prepared to rule in or rule out

anything at this point. So what are those strange similarities? Well, both men have military backgrounds.

The attacker in New Orleans, Shamsuddin Jabbar, served for 13 years in the Army. The suicide bomber in Vegas, Matthew Littlesberger, was active duty, a green beret on his leave

from his post in Germany.

Now, both got their trucks from a rental app.

They both attacked on New Year's Day.

But again, the FBI says that that is where the similarities end.

Vegas attacker, who calmly drove around the strip and the cyber truck,

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