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Iraq Arrests ISIS Official Linked to New Orleans Terror Attack

The suspect, identified as part of ISIS's foreign operations office, will face trial in Iraq under anti-terrorism law as the FBI continues its investigation.

FILE - A black flag with white lettering lies on the ground rolled up behind a pickup truck that a man drove into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing and injuring a number of people, early Wednesday morning, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
FILE -The FBI investigates the area on Orleans St and Bourbon Street by St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter where a suspicious package was detonated after a person drove a truck into a crowd earlier on Bourbon Street on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton, File)
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Overview

  • An unnamed ISIS foreign operations official has been detained in Iraq for allegedly inciting the New Year's Day truck-ramming and shooting attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people and injured dozens.
  • The FBI maintains that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the U.S. Army veteran who carried out the attack, acted alone based on current evidence, though investigations remain ongoing.
  • Jabbar was inspired by ISIS propaganda, radicalizing online within weeks before driving a rented truck into crowds on Bourbon Street and opening fire before being killed by police.
  • Iraqi authorities acted on a U.S. request for assistance, with Baghdad’s Al-Karkh Investigative Court identifying and detaining the suspect as part of international counterterrorism efforts.
  • The attack highlights the enduring threat posed by ISIS sleeper cells and lone-wolf radicalization, despite the group’s territorial defeat in Iraq and Syria years prior.