New Orleans attacker acted alone
Newshour
BBC
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🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The FBI now says the man who carried out Wednesday's deadly attack in New Orleans was acting alone, and members of the public are not in any danger. It confirmed that Shamsud-Din Jabbar - a US-born military veteran - had declared his support for Islamic State militants, and the attack was a premeditated act of terrorism. We hear from a New Orleans City Councilman on how the city is coping with the aftermath of the attack. Also in the programme: how El Salvador has cut its homicide rate to make it one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere; and with just weeks before Donald Trump is inaugurated as the new president of the United States, how might the relationship between him and the world’s media be characterised?
(Photo: Military personnel stand near the site where people were killed by a man driving a truck in an attack during New Year's celebrations, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:08.0 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Krupa Patti and it's very good to have you with us. |
| 0:13.0 | It's just gone three in the afternoon in New Orleans in the United States. |
| 0:17.6 | And the usually buzzing Bourbon Street in the French Quarter was just hours ago |
| 0:22.4 | still a crime scene with police tape and officers blocking access. A short time ago, it reopened to the |
| 0:29.2 | public with yellow barriers peppered along the streets and 14 flowers laid against a wall. Because it was |
| 0:35.7 | at that spot that on New Year's day, Shamsha Dinh Jabba, |
| 0:39.2 | a US army veteran from Texas drove a rental pickup truck that sped into the crowds in the city, |
| 0:45.0 | killing 14 people and wounding at least 35. Now, we are continuing to learn more details about |
| 0:50.6 | those who lost their lives. Jabber himself was killed in a shootout with the police. |
| 0:55.8 | The investigation is just over 24 hours old. |
| 0:58.7 | And amongst the many questions that remain are those about motive and who may have been |
| 1:04.4 | working with him. |
| 1:05.3 | A few hours ago in New Orleans, there was an update from the FBI and the governor of Louisiana, Jeff Landry. |
| 1:12.3 | We do not assess at this point that anyone else involved in this attack is involved in this |
| 1:19.3 | attack except for Shamsa Din Jabbar. He also said that there was no link between New Orleans |
| 1:26.9 | and the Las Vegas cyber truck explosion |
| 1:29.3 | that took place on the same day. |
| 1:31.3 | We are following up in all potential leads and not ruling everything out. |
| 1:34.3 | However, at this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans |
| 1:42.3 | and the one in Las Vegas. |
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