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Friday Briefing
The aftermath of a New Year’s attack in New Orleans.
Bourbon Street in New Orleans reopened to tourists, with extra security.Credit…Edmund D. Fountain for The New York Times
The New Orleans attacker acted alone, the F.B.I. said
Bourbon Street in New Orleans reopened yesterday, a day after a U.S. Army veteran plowed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing at least 14 people. People cautiously trickled back into the French Quarter, live bands resumed playing at their usual corners and mourners stopped by a makeshift memorial adorned with flowers and Mardi Gras beads.
Investigators said yesterday that the assailant, Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, had acted alone. Jabbar, who died in a gunfight with the police, had said in a video he posted online that he had joined the Islamic State group. “He was 100 percent inspired by ISIS,” Christopher Raia, an official with the F.B.I.’s counterterrorism division, said at a news conference. Here’s what we know about the attacker.
“We’re confident, at this point, that there are no accomplices,” Raia said. The authorities said that they had conducted hundreds of interviews and reviews of the attacker’s calls, social media accounts and electronic devices.
Related: The F.B.I. has found no definitive link between the New Orleans attack and the explosion of a Tesla truck outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, but investigators are not ruling anything out. The driver in Las Vegas shot himself in the head just before the explosion, which injured seven people.
