BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the FBI said. Nearly two weeks after Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s rampage, the FBI continues to uncover …

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Chaos on Bourbon Street: The growing threat of 'rampage terrorism'

An examination of visuals, witness accounts and city planning documents reveals that security lapses in New Orleans left crucial gaps on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day.

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Jeff Bezos

How New Orleans failed to protect Bourbon Street from attack, block by block

As New Orleans officials deployed to protect thousands of revellers they knew would flock to the city's famed French Quarter on New Year's Eve, they parked a police SUV to block the main entrance to Bourbon Street, a packed pedestrian thoroughfare long seen as vulnerable to a vehicular-ramming attack.

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Leon Cooperman

Allianz

Toronto

Ontario

Canada

There were a lot of shortcomings in the security measures on New Year's Eve in the entertainment district of New Orleans. This is evident from an investigation by the newspaper The Washington Post. The perpetrator of the attack, who ran over dozens of people, had virtually free rein.

Er schortte heel wat aan de veiligheidsmaatregelen op oudejaarsavond in de uitgaansbuurt in New Orleans. Dat blijkt uit een onderzoek van de krant The Washington Post. De dader van de aanslag, die tientallen mensen omverreed, had zo goed als vrij spel.

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Flanders

Belgium

How New Orleans Failed to Protect Partygoers from Radicalized Veteran

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A man in a pickup truck drove down a crowded Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's Day, killing 14 and wounding at least 35 others. The driver engaged police in a shootout, wounding two before being fatally shot and ending the spree of violence.

Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala, said in an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday that she is worried about the possibility of more terrorist attacks in America in the wake of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people, including the perpetrator, and injured 30 more.

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Alabama

United States

Katie Britt ‘significantly’ worried over potential for more terrorism following New Orleans attack

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Hubbard Broadcasting

Albuquerque

Bernalillo County

New Mexico

New Orleans attacker had researched similar violent rampage and how to access Bourbon St. balcony

BATON ROUGE, La. — Before plowing a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, the man who carried out the Islamic State group-inspired attack had researched how to access a balcony on the city’s famed Bourbon Street and looked up information about a similar recent attack at a Christmas market in Germany, the FBI said. Read more...

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When Shamsud-Din Jabbar attacked Bourbon Street in New Orleans on New Year's, he appeared to closely follow instructions that the terrorist group ISIS promotes in online playbooks, experts say.

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New Orleans

Orleans Parish

Louisiana

How the Bourbon Street attack in New Orleans came straight from online ISIS playbooks

Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) have accused Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) of blocking a briefing on worldwide threats to the US because of the 2020 presidential election. The briefing was supposed to be conducted by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe but was cancelled when Schumer allegedly refused to allow it to happen. Tillis and Burr argue that this has left the Senate Intelligence Committee uninformed…

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Senator Britt: Schumer Did 'Not Allow Us' To Be Briefed On Terror Threats Because Of Election

New Orleans attacker had researched similar violent rampage and how to access Bourbon St. balcony

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