New Orleans attacker had IS flag in truck
Newshour
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The suspect in the New Orleans vehicle attack has been identified as a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas. An Islamic State flag was found in the vehicle and two improvised bombs have been made safe.
Also on the programme: Russian gas supplies to much of Europe through Ukraine have stopped, after Kyiv refused to renew a transit agreement with Moscow; and scientists have developed a new way of studying DNA in human remains that they say will change our understanding of history.
(Photo: New Orleans Police Chief Ann Kirkpatrick speaks next to Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry at a news conference. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London. I'm Sean Lay. |
| 0:09.3 | It's one of the big nights out in the United States celebrating New Year on the most visited road in New Orleans, Bourbon Street. |
| 0:16.5 | A party place and a party city turned into a nightmare in the early hours of this January 1st. |
| 0:22.6 | An army veteran with the flag of the group that called itself Islamic State at his side, |
| 0:26.9 | drove his pickup truck into the crowds early this morning, ploughing through pedestrians |
| 0:31.6 | before getting out and shooting at police officers. |
| 0:35.1 | In the exchange of gunfire which followed, two officers were injured |
| 0:38.1 | before the assailant himself was shot dead. The truck was later found to contain an IED and |
| 0:43.5 | improvised explosive device. The FBI is now investigating what the Bureau says was an incident of |
| 0:49.6 | terrorism in which at least 10 people were killed and more than 35 others injured. |
| 0:55.0 | President Joe Biden expressed anger and frustration at the injuries and loss of life. |
| 0:59.0 | In a post on his true social site, President-elect Donald Trump called the attack an act of pure evil |
| 1:04.4 | and appeared to suggest it was the work of criminals coming into the country. |
| 1:08.9 | At a news conference in New Orleans within the last couple of hours, |
| 1:12.4 | the FBI assistant special agent Althea Duncan provided details about the suspect. |
| 1:17.5 | The subject hasn't identified as 42-year-old Sumsuit Tim Javar, a US-born citizen from Texas. |
| 1:25.7 | He was driving a Ford pickup truck, which appears to be rented, |
| 1:29.4 | and we are working to confirm how the subject became in possession of his vehicle. An ISIS flag was |
| 1:35.3 | located on the trailer hitch of the vehicle, and the FBI is working to determine the subject's |
| 1:40.8 | potential associations and affiliations to terrorist organizations. |
| 1:46.6 | Weapons and potential improvised explosive vices, IEDs, were located in the subject's vehicle. |
| 1:53.0 | Other potential IEDs were also located in the French Quarter. |
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