FBI Now Sees New Orleans Attack as Solo Act

Investigators believe the U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a New Orleans crowd acted alone, and they have found no link between that terrorist attack and the deadly explosion of a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas that was driven by another servicemember.

- SADIE GURMAN

"We're confident, at this point, that there are no accomplices," Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism division, said at a New Orleans news briefing hours before tens of thousands of people attended the Sugar Bowl at the Superdome.

The college football game had been postponed a day while police bolstered security following the rampage that killed at least 14 people. Raia said authorities believed there Jabbar, 42 Continued from Page One was no ongoing threat in the area, and local officials on Thursday afternoon reopened the stretch of Bourbon Street where the attack took place early on New Year's Day.

Shamsud-Din years old, "was 100% inspired by ISIS," Raia said, referring to the Islamic State terrorist group that once controlled a self-proclaimed caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria-and whose black flag was tied to the hitch of the rented pickup. Authorities were still poring over social media and talking to people who knew him to learn more about his path to radicalization.

Jabbar, who was born in Texas, filmed and posted several Facebook videos hours before the attack describing his desire to kill. In the first, Jabbar explained that he originally planned to harm his family and friends, but was concerned the news headlines wouldn't focus on what he described as "the war between the believers and the disbelievers," Raia said. Jabbar said in the videos that he had joined ISIS before this past summer.

He posted the last video at 3:02 a. m. and mowed down pedestrians on crowded Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m.

While the belief that Jabbar acted alone in the attack brought some margin of relief to the city, developments in Las Vegas raised new questions about the blast there.