Summary

A U.S. Army veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, killed 15 people and injured dozens in New Orleans by driving a truck into New Year’s revelers, inspired by the Islamic State group.

The FBI is investigating the attack as a terrorist act, finding videos posted by Jabbar expressing support for the Islamic State group and explosive devices in the vehicle and around the city.

Jabbar, a former Afghanistan veteran, was killed by police after opening fire.

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    4 days ago

    “inspired” is amazing word.

    ISIS is no longer a terrorist group, and their affiliates are now just inspired by the movement.

    You can tell the narrative government push by just reading the titles of these news agency.

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      Nothing in the article implies it is not a terrorist group. You are overreacting to a perfectly valid use of the word inspired.

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      You can tell the narrative government push by just reading the titles of these news agency.

      Er, wait, let me check if I understand correctly… you’re accusing the US government of pushing a non-warmongering narrative? a narrative that does not encourage increased US presence in the Middle East and instead seeks to de-escalate the possible response to this incident? … and you’re … complaining about that?

      You’re either so deep into conspiracy theory nonsense that you just see government conspiracy everywhere, or you’re a warmongering nut who wants the government to push escalatory terrorist-threat narratives at every opportunity.

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      ISIS is no longer a terrorist group, and their affiliates are now just inspired by the movement.

      That’s the thing about ISIS: It’s not just their affiliates you have to worry about. They’re very effective at inspiring sporadic terrorism by people completely unrelated to them, kind of like MAGA.