The New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans comes as no surprise, as jihadists have been in the United States “for a while, and their numbers continue to grow,” Ken Strange, a former FBI agent with the Joint Terrorism Task Force, told Newsmax on Thursday.
“It was a terrible, terrible tragedy, [but] I’m not surprised,” Strange told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “I’ve been saying for the last two years that it’s not a matter of if, but when, and yes, they are here … unfortunately, you can anticipate more of this.”
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of Texas, the man who was killed by police after driving a pickup truck into a crowd on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street early on New Year’s Day, had served as an IT specialist in the military and was a U.S. citizen. The FBI said an ISIS flag was located in the truck Jabbar used in the attack, which has claimed 15 lives and left dozens hospitalized.
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