Security forces and intelligence agencies in the United States are concerned about new incidents of attacks involving vehicles running over people, after what happened on New Year’s Eve in New Orleans, in an act carried out by an Army veteran, according to an intelligence bulletin published this Friday (03).
The document was published a day after the FBI said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native, was “100% inspired” by the Islamic State to drive a pickup truck into a crowd celebrating the New Year, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens.
Jabbar, who had an Islamic State flag flying from the back of his rented pickup truck, died in a shootout with police.
The FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center “are concerned about possible similar or retaliatory attacks,” said the intelligence bulletin published by the three agencies.
This type of attack “should remain attractive to inspire attackers, given the ease of acquiring vehicles and the low level of skill required to conduct an attack”, explained the report issued by North American security agencies.
The bulletin recalled that, until Thursday (02), the Islamic State had not claimed responsibility for the attack in New Orleans.
But supporters of the group celebrated on the internet the performance of this act and also a similar one on December 20, in Germany, even though that incident apparently was not inspired by the militant group, he reported.
According to the document, people used these attacks to “call for more violence against specific groups, especially immigrants or Muslims.”
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Islamic State continues to spread its ideas and recruit supporters online despite suffering major defeats against a US-led coalition that recaptured the “caliphate” the militants established in Syria and Iraq in 2014.
The statement called on members of the forces and private security companies to be aware that, in many past cases, those involved in cases of vehicles used to run over people were also armed and continued their attacks with firearms or sharp weapons.
The Jan. 1 fatality, which occurred in New Orleans’ crowded French Quarter, was the seventh attack in the U.S. since 2001 inspired by foreign extremist organizations, the bulletin reported.
US President Joe Biden’s administration is keeping President-elect Donald Trump and his team aware of investigations into the attack in New Orleans and an explosion that occurred the same day in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, a report said. source close to the topic.
This content was originally published in US agencies fear that car accident in New Orleans will inspire other attacks on the CNN Brasil website.
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