You just lost every reporter under 40 yrs old at least.
Mass or Trans Shootings And Actions - Mass Casualty Events
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Hell, I haven’t seen one of those on anyone’s desk in at least 20+ years.
They probably think it is an expensive watch.
glhs837
Power with Control
The funny thing is that knowing what a Rolodex is is literally seconds away for anyone on the planet. But of course I use the term generically as in a list of important contacts. My contact list in Outlook is gargantuan. What I consider my Rolodex is much shorter? Maybe 25-30 people in the world. These are the folks I turn to when I'm stumped.
Bare-ya-cuda
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It amazes me the FBI cannot track communication between terrorist in this country to know terrorist groups in the Middle East but they can round up everyone that set foot in the capitol on Jan 6.The individual has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen who lived in Texas, according to the FBI in a statement issued on Wednesday afternoon. Earlier in the day, anonymous law enforcement officials provided his name to multiple news outlets.
An ISIS flag was discovered in the Ford pickup truck that Jabbar was driving, the FBI said, referring to the Islamist terrorist group that had controlled swaths of Syria and Iraq about a decade ago.
“The FBI is working to determine the subject’s potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations,” the statement reads.
During a news briefing on Wednesday afternoon, Alethea Duncan, an assistant special agent in charge of the FBI’s New Orleans field office, said investigators do not believe Jabbar was “solely responsible” for the attack as the investigation continues.
“We are aggressively running down every lead, including those of his known associates,” Duncan told the news conference, while asking for the public’s assistance in the case.
FBI Identifies Suspected Terrorist in New Orleans Attack, Says ISIS Flag Found
The suspect was named as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who was killed in a firefight with police. The FBI says he may have had help.www.theepochtimes.com
American citizen ?
NEVER Trust a Saracen Islam IS NOT compatible with Western Civilization
Tells you who they consider their true enemy.
2025 began tragically and violently, with a bang, as it were, after twin New Year’s terror attacks. The first occurred around 3am Wednesday morning, less than twenty days from the Inauguration. Fifteen defenseless Bourbon Street New Year’s Eve revelers were killed, and dozens more seriously injured, when a cowardly domestic jihadist and disgraced US Army veteran drove his white pickup through the crowd at high speed. As usual, the attack raised more questions than provided answers. Fortunately, our nation’s top law enforcement officers are on the case: N.O.P.D.’s Police Captain, Grandma Memaw, 96, and F.B.I. Special Agent in Charge, Ms. Woke DEI Hire, 22:
I. Just. Can’t. Even.
So don’t worry. These ladies will surely get to the bottom of things tout de suite. (But don’t call them Shirley.)
In an uncommonly quick statement from Camp David, Biden mumbled that the FBI had told him that, “mere hours before the attack,” the driver posted videos to his Facebook account addressed to his family, explaining that the Islamic State had inspired him to kill. In other words, on the way to the attack he disclosed his ISIS connections for the first time to his own family.
Biden also described the killer in great detail, almost savoring the details: “an American citizen, born in Texas, who served in the US Army on active duty for many years, he also served in the Army reserve until a few years ago.”
The FBI’s nose-ringed Agent In Charge, Ms. Woke D. Hire, first told reporters unequivocally that it was not a terror attack, right before Captain Memaw croaked that it was a terror attack. Well, in her defense, it seems like English may not be Ms. Woke Hire’s first language. In any case, the FBI is now singing from the same page of music.
Later yesterday, FBI Agent Woke D. Hire even floated a theory of domestic terror conspiracy:
Officials provided even more detail, including describing an improvised explosive device found in the car, inside a cooler filled with nails. They reported finding two more cooler-bombs placed “nearby” on Bourbon Street. And, get this, officials already reported having surveillance footage that shows at least three men and one woman planting possible explosives at various locations throughout the French Quarter before the deranged truck attack.
It was the first time in recorded memory that the FBI identified, confirmed, and described a mass killer within twelve hours of the attack. It might be the only time the FBI ever speculated about a possible broader conspiracy within the first day, never mind describing in real time what they saw on incoming security footage. Weird. But if it’s a new trend of transparency, it’s welcome.
Also weird is the hint of a conspiracy. The FBI historically has been, well, reluctant to find co-conspirators for these types of attacks. Remember, the FBI never found anyone else involved in: the Las Vegas shooting, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Centennial Park Bombing (also a US Army veteran) the Matthew Crooks assassination attempt, or the Ryan Routh assassination attempt, just to name a few.
Not only was it a domestic terror attack, but it was a domestic Islamist terror attack, and to make sure that fact was perfectly clear, the killer Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, spent the time to mount an ISIS flag on the back of the rented pickup he used in the attack. After he crashed the truck, he got into a shootout with police and was killed on the scene, so don’t expect him to ever explain anything.
Two brave N.O.P.D. officers were wounded taking out Jabbar.
Bourbon Street normally has security barriers installed in the streets that can be raised or lowered for oversized-crowd events like the one attended Tuesday night by the annual New Year’s Eve / Sugar Bowl revelers. But this year, the security barriers had been removed, not for repair, but to be replaced — in February.
I know what you’re thinking, but they didn’t just leave security to chance. Captain Memaw said she’d worked up a detailed plan to defend Bourbon Street using police cars in place of the removed security barriers. Unfortunately, as Captain Memaw admitted, the “terrorist defeated it,” meaning her brilliant plan.
Specifically, Jabber defeated Captain Memaw’s detailed plan to defend Bourbon Street by driving around the police cars on the open sidewalk.
When reporters pressed Captain Memaw for the details of her security plan, and why officials were seemingly caught with their slacks down by someone driving past them on the sidewalk, Governor Jeff Landry suddenly grabbed the microphone, obliquely pledging that officials would “be transparent” and would address “defects in this system.”
Defects?
“We’re going to fix it,” Landry vowed to reporters, as though the most pressing question on everyone’s mind was whether police would bother changing anything for next time.
Nothing in Jabbar’s history so far supports the videos the FBI claims to have found, where Jabber says Islam inspired his attack. He served in the US Army as a computer specialist and had no special explosives training. He spent a year in Afghanistan but was discharged from the service in 2015 after driving drunk on base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He owned and operated a small real estate company in Houston until 2023, when his broker’s license expired.Nothing to that date suggests Jabbar had been radicalized in any way.
The Washington Post reported that Grant Savoy, one of Jabbar’s former high school classmates in Texas, was shocked to hear about the attack, saying Jabbar had been “a regular dude” and “a quiet guy” back in the day.
Jabbar lived with his wife in a quiet Houston suburb, where he grew up. The couple had two daughters aged 14 and 20. He rented the truck he used in the attack using a car-sharing app called Turo. This app, Turo, links Jabbar with the second attack yesterday in Las Vegas.
Let’s assume that, for no apparent reason, the Army veteran and real estate agent Jabbar decided to become a domestic terrorist for, of all organizations, deep-state affiliated ISIS. Why drive five hours from Houston to New Orleans to conduct the attack, when many soft targets were much closer to home? Why are the FBI and even President Cabbage gushing with information, even offering speculative guesses, and not hiding behind the ubiquitous “ongoing investigation?”After all, they still aren’t talking about failed Trump assassin Ryan Wesley Routh, since that one is an ‘ongoing investigation.’
Well, we will know more after they catch the co-conspirators who helped plant the IEDs in the French Quarter. Assuming, that is, they are ever caught. We’ll see.
☕️ DOMESTIC ☙ Thursday, January 2, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The New Year begins with twin domestic terror attacks and a strange new respect for transparency at the FBI. Was yesterday a signal for a national terror tsunami?
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Yesterday’s second attack was described in a New York Times article with the grotesquely deceptive headline, “Cybertruck Explosion Outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas Leaves 1 Dead and Several Injured.” First of all, the headline makes it sound like the Tesla Cybertruck blew up due to a mechanical defect instead of a bomb. Second, the “one dead” was the apparent bomber. Seven people near the scene sustained minor injuries.
The useless story ran at the Times’ top-of-fold this morning. You could read the article and think it was an accidental, spontaneous electric battery fire. The Washington Post’s article was better, at least explaining in the sub-headline that, “The FBI said it is working to determine whether the explosion of the Tesla Cybertruck, which was filled with large firework mortars and gas canisters, was an act of terrorism.”
In other words, it was another domestic terrorist attack, the second on the same day, and was possibly the first suicide bombing in American history.
Or, maybe the bomber innocently drove the Elon Musk-affiliated Cybertruck up to the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas packed with gas canisters and large fireworks mortars because he planned a big New Year’s Eve show but then the battery very inconveniently caught on fire, and chaos ensued.
The problem with that hypothesis is all the apparent links between Las Vegas and the New Orleans attack.
First, the driver, who was instantly and quite painfully burned alive in the raging fire after the Tesla exploded, was identified as another US Army serviceman, this one on active duty, a Green Beret veteran and lifelong Colorado Springs resident, Matthew Livelsberger, 37. Matt and the New Orleans truck terrorist Jabbar both served at Fort Bragg, possibly at the same time (though that has yet to be confirmed). Both men served in Afghanistan.
And perhaps most coincidentally, both men rented their attack vehicles using the same car-sharing app, Turo.
Social media investigators have pointed out, and it’s a fair point, that nobody ever saw Livelsberger alive before the Cybertruck blew up. It detonated before he could get out, as soon as the car reached the curb in front of Trump’s hotel. In theory, a Tesla Cybertruck could be operated by remote control, although that isn’t a standard feature. So, again in theory, Livelsberger could have been dead before the vehicle arrived. There’s no evidence to support this theory, and there never will be.
Well, maybe that’s not quite right. Matt’s special forces and military intelligence background ensured he could have planned a much more sophisticated attack than this botched bombing, an amateur effort that went nowhere, not least of all because of the Cybertruck’s durable stainless steel construction, which appears to have contained much of the force of the explosion and limited the worst damage to its occupant.
The Trump-Musk connection —Tesla Cybertruck bombing a Trump Hotel— seems overtly politicized, a deliberate statement for this precise political moment. Like failed Trump assassin Ryan Routh, apparently Matt Livelsberger was involved in helping staff Ukraine with foreign mercenaries. This was allegedly copied from Matt’s LinkedIn account, before it was taken down:
While not yet confirmed in any mainstream media platform, Livelsberger and his wife Sarah (or ex-wife, it’s not yet clear) have social media footprints suggesting they were left-leaning and quite Trump-deranged. Since that describes 20% of the native population, it’s nowhere near sufficient explanation for why Matt Livelsberger would throw his life away to become the country’s first domestic suicide bomber.
Nor is there, so far, any ISIS connection, or even a hint of any terror group involvement. What Green Beret Matt Livelsberger thought he would accomplish by blowing up a Cybertruck outside Trump International Hotel is anybody’s guess. Another mystery motive.
☕️ DOMESTIC ☙ Thursday, January 2, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The New Year begins with twin domestic terror attacks and a strange new respect for transparency at the FBI. Was yesterday a signal for a national terror tsunami?
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Tech
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Was there a couple of months ago and the bollors they are speaking of are not not of the security type and that truck may have been able to defeat them. If I remember, they were not even deployed. Traffic was controlled with saw horse style barriers. Comparing my photos with Google earth some have been removed and cemented over. The only wedge pop up type was at the Canal St entrance.
glhs837
Power with Control
I think you might be mistaking the type of device in question here. The ones I've seen pictures of are raised plates of steel. And they were not deployed because the hydraulic systems need replacing and they were out of service pending replacement in time for the Super bowl later in the year. Looks like some piss poor planning took place
Tech
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These are the ones I'm talking about. Two of the poles slide together and blocks traffic. There are two sets at each cross street.
Driver of Cybertruck in Las Vegas explosion was a Special Forces soldier, Army confirms
An Army Special Forces soldier shot himself before the Tesla Cybertruck he was driving exploded in front of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on New Year’s morning, officials said Thursday.
Master Sgt. Matthew Alan Livelsberger, 37, was in his 19th year as an Army Green Beret, service officials confirmed Thursday, and had earned a Bronze Star with Valor among other combat awards. Livelsberger enlisted in 2006 and rose through the ranks of Special Forces to the position of a team sergeant with 10th Special Forces Group, based at Fort Carson, Colorado, the Army said.
Las Vegas Police Department Sheriff Kevin McMahill said at a press conference that authorities were confident that Livelsberger was the driver of the Cybertruck, but noted that Las Vegas police did “not have confirmation 100%” that the remains inside the truck belonged to Livelsberger because they were “burnt beyond recognition.” McMahill cited a military ID, passport, two semi-automatic handguns, iPhone, smartwatch and credit cards belonging to Livelsberger that were found in the truck.
glhs837
Power with Control
This image is looking towards Bourbon Street from Canal Street. He turned right from Canal onto Bourbon.
These are the ones I'm talking about. Two of the poles slide together and blocks traffic. There are two sets at each cross street.
Bourbon Street Barrier
Tech
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If they put those wedge barriers in, wonder how that would affect pedestrian traffic. There would be about 16 up and down Bourban and the sidewalks would still be open.