Pro-ISIS group called on Muslims to carry out attacks on New Year’s before the New Orleans massacre

A driver killed 10 people and injured dozens more after crashing a van displaying an ISIS flag into a crowd celebrating the New Year. Bourbon Street in New Orleansjust days after a pro-ISIS outlet called on Muslims to wage Islamic jihad in the United States, Europe and Russia.

The tragic event occurred around 3:15 a.m. on New Year’s Day and the FBI identified the driver as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar of Texas.

Police said the suspect died after jumping out of his truck and exchanging gunfire with responding officers.

The FBI told reporters Wednesday that a ISIL flag was located on the vehicle’s trailer hitch, adding that the FBI is working to determine Din Jabbar’s possible associations and affiliations with the terrorist organization.

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AFTER DRIVER KILLS TEN AND INJURES DOZENS IN TRUCK ATTACK ON BOURBON STREET

Emergency responders attend the scene on Bourbon Street after a vehicle plowed into a crowd at the New Orleans Canal and Bourbon Street, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

On Sunday, a pro-ISIS outlet took to Telegram and called on Muslims living in the United States, Europe and Russia to carry out attacks on New Year’s Eve.

“O monotheists in Europe, America, Russia and other crusader lands, we know that you are eager to join your brothers in the land of Jihad, but the paths have been cut off for you,” a translated version of the post read. . “The crusaders are among you. Their security has been extended and your brothers are being murdered.

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – JANUARY 1: Law enforcement officers from multiple agencies work the scene on Bourbon Street after at least ten people were killed when one person allegedly drove into the crowd in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dozens more were injured after a suspect in a rented van allegedly drove around barricades and through a crowd of New Year’s revelers on Bourbon Street. The suspect then exited the car, opened fire on the police officers and was subsequently killed by law enforcement. (Michael DeMocker/Getty Images)

“The time has come to draw the swords from their sheaths and hamstring the horses in the places that Allah loves and is pleased with,” the post continues. “You are preparing for the feast of your polytheism, so turn your feast into mourning and your joy into calamity.”

The outlet asked Muslims, or “crusaders,” if they felt safe in their homes while their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps, before asking them to “repeat the attack against them and repeat the days of those who attacked them.” They preceded us on this path.”

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“So, stalk them, stalk them, seize opportunities and attack them like a hungry lion attacks its careless prey,” the message said. “May none of you be cowardly or weak, and may the word of Allah be before your eyes: Come and fight the polytheists all together as they fight you all together, so put your trust in Allah and repeat the days of terror against the crusaders. with slaughter, rancor and torture, because the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, said: ‘A disbeliever and his murderer will never meet in the Fire, so support God and He will support you, and be honest with Him.'”

The attack in New Orleans comes nearly two weeks after an alleged terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany.

TO Saudi Arabian psychiatrist was arrested in connection with the Dec. 20 hit-and-run attack at a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, that killed five people, including a nine-year-old boy, and injured more than 200 people.