New Orleans terrorist’s visit to Canada is investigated as FBI reveals attacker’s chilling reconnaissance

The FBI is investigating terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s visit to Canada as they have revealed new details about his planning for the attack in New Orleans.

Investigators said they are now searching across the country and abroad for clues about Jabbar’s movements that led to the attack that killed 14 people and injured dozens.

Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Office, Lyonel Myrthil, told a news conference on Sunday: “We have been monitoring Jabbar’s travel to Cairo, Egypt, from June 22 to July 3, 2023.

“A few days later, he flew to Ontario, Canada on July 10 and returned to the US on July 13, 2023.

“Our officers are getting answers about where he went, who he met and how these arrangements may or may not relate to his actions here in our city.”

Jabbar also made two trips to New Orleans prior to the horrific attack, one in October and a month later in November.

During that time, Jabbar used Meta Glasses on his face to record a video while riding a bicycle through the French Quarter, Myrthil said.

The video showed the terrorist driving through busy streets, where he would later plow down pedestrians with a rented white Ford F-150 EV, waving an ISIS flag.

“Jabbar was wearing Meta Glasses when he carried out the attack on Bourbon Street, but he did not activate the glasses to live stream his actions,” Myrthil said.

The video showed the terrorist driving through the busy streets, where he would later kill fourteen people and injure dozens

Surveillance footage showed him stopping at gun shops and a store where he purchased one of the ice chests used to store the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) he had planted.

Other new footage showed Jabbar wearing a brown jacket and planting the coolers containing the IEDs on busy NOLA streets.

Jabbar expressed his support for the Islamic State militant group in online videos posted hours before his allowance.

He reserved the vehicle used in the attack more than six weeks earlier, on Nov. 14, according to law enforcement officials who spoke to The Associated Press.

Jabbar suspected bomb-making materials in his Houston home, which contained a workbench in the garage and hazardous materials believed to have been used to make explosives, said officials familiar with a search conducted there.

Authorities found crude bombs near the attack in an apparent attempt to cause more carnage.

Two improvised explosive devices left in coolers several blocks apart were made safe at the scene. Other devices were determined to be non-functional.

Jabbar bought a cooler in Vidor, Texas, and gun oil from a store in Sulphur, Louisiana, hours before the attack, investigators said.

Jabbar wore Meta glasses but didn’t put them on for the livestream as he plowed through Bourbon Street

Other footage showed Jabbar wearing a brown jacket and placing the coolers containing the IEDs on busy NOLA streets

Two improvised explosive devices left in coolers several blocks apart were made safe at the scene

Investigators who searched Jabbar’s rental car found a transmitter intended to activate the two bombs, the FBI said in a statement Friday, adding that there were bomb-making materials at the New Orleans home he rented.

Jabbar also tried to set the house on fire by starting a small fire in a hallway with accelerants, but the flames were extinguished before firefighters arrived.

Jabbar exited the crashed truck wearing a ballistic vest and helmet and fired at police, wounding at least two officers before he was fatally shot by police.

New Orleans police have declined to say how many shots were fired by Jabbar and the officers or whether any bystanders may have been hit, citing the active investigation.

The coroner’s office said all the victims died of blunt force injuries, while Jabbar was fatally shot during a shootout with police.

The youngest victim was 18 years old and the oldest was 63 years old. Most of the victims were in their twenties.

They came from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, New Jersey and the United Kingdom.