Following the terrorist attack in New Orleans where an ISIS supporter drove a car into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations, President Joe Biden on Thursday (local time) assured that the US will relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organizations.
“We will relentlessly pursue ISIS and other terrorist organizations where they are, and they will find no safe haven here,” Biden said.
Biden said that 15 people including the attacker were killed in the attack. He then assured that no one else was involved in the attack.
“The death toll in New Orleans has risen to 15, including the attacker, with 35 injured. Today the FBI told me that as of now, we have no information that anyone else is involved in the attack. He “We have established that the attacker was the same person who placed explosives in those ice coolers at two nearby locations in the French Quarter just hours before driving his vehicle into the crowd,” Biden said.
Biden further reiterated that the attacker Shamsood Deen Jabbar, from whose car the ISIS flag was found, has indicated support for terrorist organizations in the video he made.
“As I said yesterday, the attacker posted several videos just hours before the attack that indicated his strong support for ISIS. Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community are actively pursuing any foreign or domestic contacts and connections are investigating which may possibly be relevant to the attack.”
Also, speaking about the possible connection between the New Orleans attack and the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion, Biden said that the investigation is still ongoing, however, no evidence of such a connection has been found so far.
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, killing one person and injuring seven others. According to CNN report, the vehicles used in both incidents were rented from car rental site ‘Turo’, leading authorities to look for links between the two incidents.
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