Stuff reports:
At least 15 people have died in the attack on New Orleans’ famed French Quarter, according to a statement from the New Orleans coroner.
A driver wrought carnage on early on New Year’s Day as he steered around a police blockade and rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said.
The FBI is investigating the attack as an act of terrorism and said it does not believe the vehicle driver, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US citizen from Texas, acted alone. An Islamic State group flag was found on the vehicle’s trailer hitch, the FBI said.
The French Quarter is always packed, but even more so on New Years Eve. The terrorist would have picked that as a location where he could kill the most people with a vehicle.
And a further story:
Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found stuffed into the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel, killing a suspect inside the vehicle and sparking an intense investigation into possible terrorism.
Hard to see how this isn’t terrorism with the link to Trump, and possibly Musk. The choice of a Cybertruck may have (unintentionally) saved lives as it seems the vehicle is so strong that it absorbed much of the explosion, preventing those outside being more seriously injured.
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