Suspect in New Orleans attack identified as US army veteran

A man driving a pickup truck that bore the flag of the Islamic State group wrought carnage in New Orleans during the new year celebrations, killing 15 people as he steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police. The FBI said it was investigating the attack as a terrorist act and does not believe the driver acted alone. Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle, along with other devices elsewhere in the city’s French Quarter.

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Suspect in deadly New Orleans attack was 13-year US army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar