Suspect in New Orleans truck attack identified as 42-year-old Army veteran from Texas
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Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, three U.S. defense officials said.

Summary

Authorities identified Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, as the suspect in the New Orleans truck ramming attack that killed 10 people and injured 35 on New Year’s Day.

Jabbar, who died in a shootout with police, allegedly drove a truck with a black flag possibly linked to ISIS. The FBI is investigating the attack as a potential terrorist act.

Weapons and suspected explosive devices were found in Jabbar’s vehicle and near the scene.

Officials are also investigating reports that Jabbar fired a rifle into the crowd and whether IEDs near the site were operational.

  • Teppichbrand@feddit.org
    214·
    4 days ago

    We had a similar attack in Germany a couple of weeks ago. Every time something like this happens people call for more security. But it’s a media thing, we talk a lot about these acts of terrorism but far less about stuff that happens daily and we’re used to. That’s why I share this list I collected over the past years. What are we afraid of?

    Deaths per day in Germany
    2,800 Total
    930 Cardiovascular diseases
    630 Cancer
    350 Smoking
    200 Alcohol
    55 Medical malpractice
    30 Suicide
    10 Traffic accidents
    2 Murder, including 1 femicide
    0.02 right-wing Terror
    0.0004 left-wing Terror
    9,300 Cows
    151,000 Pigs
    1,800,000 Chickens

    • Tyfud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Of the top 4, three of those things are generally self-created problems for individuals. Someone eating more cheeseburgers doesn’t impact my life negatively (except for rising medical costs in general). One of them is more act-of-god-y, but without anyone being able to point a cancer gun at people.

      Medical malpractice, traffic accidents, murder, and the terrorist actions are all things that we should be trying to solve for and address as a society. They’re things we have control over and is a situation where it’s one person hurting another person (though in suicide’s case, it’s a bit darker than that, but still related due to depression and needing help/not receiving any).

      The point being, we shouldn’t stop trying to address person on person causes of death, just because it’s low, statistically. But I do agree we should probably start with something like Medical Malpractice as the biggest bang for the buck. But working towards that also doesn’t mean we can’t also work on reducing terrorist attack vectors.