The idea that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a born and bred former American soldier who dabbled in real estate suddenly became a "member of ISIS" and decided to drive his truck into people in New Orleans sounds implausible.
He doesn't sound like the common or garden Muslim radical, but who knows what that religion, in the right hands, can do to people. In Jabbar's case, he was allegedly radicalized just by converting to Islam and recently had "several dreams telling him to join ISIS" according to videos he made prior to the attack. He apparently also "joined ISIS before the summer". How exactly a guy like Jabbar does that is still a mystery, but it was, apparently, enough motivation for him to procure an ISIS flag and lots of explosives from somewhere (or someone) and decide to kill some of his fellow Americans in New Orleans.
Sources [allegedly] told CNN that there is footage that may be of Jabbar that may have been filmed at night while driving [the person is not visible in the recordings] and that they may have been created during Jabbar's journey from Texas to Louisiana. The videos are said to reference Jabbar's divorce and reveal his alleged plan to lure his family into a staged celebration to kill them. Lots of 'mays' there.
Jabbar's brother, Abdur, described him as a compassionate individual "[He was] a sweetheart really, a nice guy, a friend, really smart, caring", adding that his brother converted to Islam at a young age and, "what he did does not represent Islam. This is more some type of radicalization, not religion." Some type of radicalization" indeed.
What's ISIS?
By now, everyone knows (or should know) that "ISIS" is the name given to a group of CIA and Israeli-backed jihadis that sprang onto the scene in the early days of the "civil war" in Syria that kicked off in 2011. Although Western govts. and media liked to call them "Syrian rebels".As revealed in a 2015 declassified secret US Defense Intelligence Agency document obtained by public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, the US government and its intelligence agencies fully anticipated the transformation of 'al-qaeda' into ISIS at this time. They also recognized that their support for this group of psychopathic head-choppers could "establish a declared or undeclared Salafist principality in Eastern Syria" and that this was "exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition [the USA] want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime."
While Assad withstood the CIA and Israel's initial jihadi onslaught, he finally gave up the fight late last year as "ISIS" marched into major Syrian cities almost unopposed. For those who have trouble believing that any US govt. would employ extremist groups in service to their geopolitical goals...remember the Contras?
At a 1985 hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on US operations in Nicaragua, Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) told then Secretary of State George P. Shultz: "There is a growing body of evidence that the Contras have committed widespread violence against the civilian population. I am concerned that money from our government goes to an organization that commits atrocities. I have been given affidavits by victims of atrocities, terrible photographs."
Shultz was being rather coy here. The US government viewed the democratically-elected Sandinista government as a threat to the ability of American corporations to exploit Nicaraguan resources. Continuing in the tradition they had, by then, established in at least five other South American nations that rejected US corporate plunder of their nation, the US government decided to fund, arm and train a terrorist group known as the 'Contras' or 'counter-revolutionaries'.
For the next ten years, the Contras carried out widespread terror attacks against the civilian population that killed at least 45,000 people in the tiny central American nation. The CIA even produced a 'terror manual' for the Contras called Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare that advised on how to rationalize the killing of civilians. For almost ten years these CIA terrorists busied themselves by:
- targeting health care clinics and health care workers for assassination
- kidnapping civilians
- torturing civilians
- executing civilians, including children, who were captured in combat
- raping women
Stick on some neck beards and... US-created 'Contra' rebels in Nicaragua
Anyway, back to New Year's Day.
The truck involved in the fatal New Orleans terrorist attack and the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas were both rented through the Turo app, which may suggest a connection between the two. The driver of the truck was Matthew Livelsberger, a 37-year-old Colorado Springs resident.
The image below was uploaded by Sara on April 9th 2016. The interesting part is Matthew's t-shirt.
Other odd facts of the case include:
- both the Cybertruck used by Livelsberger and the truck used by Jabbar were both rented from the same 'Turo' vehicle-sharing platform, i.e. private vehicles rented to others.
- Jabbar's truck was a white Ford F150. There seems to be the same or similar vehicle directly in front of the Cybertruck that exploded.
- both men served at the same Fort Bragg military base.
- who are the other alleged "accomplices" to the New Orleans attack, where AP reported surveillance footage showing three men and a woman placing multiple improvised explosive devices at the scene. Shades of Jan. 6th?
- on what basis did the FBI suddenly (today) declare that Jabbar acted alone?
- is there video evidence of the Cyber truck arriving at the hotel with Livelsberger in it? Is there clear video evidence of Livelsberger in the truck at the time of the explosion? Surely there are more video angles than the singe one released so far?
I pray for the former, but the latter is equally possible.
May the best ideas prevail
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2025 is going to be pivotal.
BK