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FBI has made horrifying discovery in Airbnb rented by the New Orleans terr0rist after he mowed down 15 people
Federal investigators believe US Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, who drove a truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans’ French Quarter, prepared the IED explosives at a nearby rental property.
Jabbar, 42, a US citizen born and raised in Texas drove an electric vehicle from Houston to Louisiana to carry out the deadly attack which k!lled 15 and left at least 35 injured.
Investigators are probing the theory he rented a nearby property on Airbnb in St. Roch for his base before carrying out the attack.
Photographs obtained by Exclusive DailyMail show the moment the FBI removed bomb-making materials from the two-bedroom and two-bathroom property close to the French Quarter.
A total containment vessel was taken away from the property at around 8pm on New Year’s Day, hours after authorities had evacuated residents from the area.
The FBI were joined by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Homeland Security.
A spokeswoman for the ATF confirmed that they were involved in assisting the investigation, but were unable to comment further when contacted by DailyMail.
Officials were called to the property after firefighters put out a fire at the rental in the early hours, with sources claiming ‘bomb-making materials’ were found.
State Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News: ‘We know that these individuals had rented the house and were using it for that purpose.’
The two-bed two-bathroom property was revamped by real estate developer Oliver Doxater at Wysteria Properties.
Sources believe that Jabbar could have rented the property out on Airbnb or another rental service before the deadly attack.
Jabbar was killed by police after he slammed a truck into pedestrians celebrating the New Year, exited the vehicle, and started firing.
The vehicle, which was hired by Jabbar on the car rental app Turo, was reportedly carrying an ISIS flag and a chest with explosives inside it.
Suspect Jabbar is said to have made a series of videos that are being reviewed by law enforcement.
Authorities believe that the videos were made as he drove from Texas to Louisiana, although the timing is unclear.
CNN reported that the recordings make reference to his divorce and that he planned on gathering his family together for a fake celebration so he could kill them.
The suspect is also said to have talked about how he joined ISIS and spoke of dreams that he had about joining the terrorist group.
His brother told The New York Times that his brother was a caring man. Abdur Jabbar, 24, of Beaumont, Texas, told the outlet: ‘[He was] a sweetheart really, a nice guy, a friend, really smart, caring.’
He said that his brother had converted to Islam at a young age, and that ‘what he did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion’.
According to Fox5, several agencies are now investigating whether there is a link between the two attacks.
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