FBI now says driver responsible for deadly New Orleans rampage acted alone as Bourbon Street re-opens
The US Army veteran who drove a ute into a crowd of New Year's revellers acted alone, the FBI said on Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in carrying out the deadly attack, which officials say was an act of terrorism inspired by the Islamic State (IS) group.
The FBI also revealled that the driver, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas, posted five videos on his Facebook account in the hours before the attack in which he aligned himself with IS and told viewers that he had joined the militant group before last summer.
"This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act," said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division.
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