Chilling new video shows NOLA terrorist loading up truck before attack
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The Bourbon Street attacker was captured on doorbell footage unloading his rented pickup truck just hours before he carried out a deadly attack, resulting in the deaths of 15 individuals and leaving at least 30 others injured.

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, rammed the vehicle, flying an ISIS flag, into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans about 3.15am on Wednesday.

Dressed in military attire and with explosives concealed inside the white electric Ford F-150 Lightning truck, he deliberately drove into pedestrians before exiting the vehicle to continue his assault with gunfire.

The perpetrator, identified as Jabbar, procured the truck through Turo in Houston, then made his way to New Orleans on Tuesday evening. Upon arrival, he checked into an Airbnb accommodation located on Mandeville Street in St Roch.

Next-door neighbor Michael Adasko discovered his Ring doorbell camera filmed the terrorist arrive at 10.02pm and unload the F-150 into the house.

The footage showed Jabbar lift boxes from the pickup’s tray and carry them inside from the curbside parking.

Investigators said Jabbar brought components for making improvised explosives with him, and rented the Airbnb to assemble them for his rampage.

ATF Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Division, Joshua Jackson, said on Thursday that the ATF was still combing through the rented house.

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, rammed the vehicle, flying an ISIS flag, into a crowd of New Year's Eve revelers in New Orleans about 3.15am on Wednesday

Shamsud Din Jabbar, 42, rammed the vehicle, flying an ISIS flag, into a crowd of New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans about 3.15am on Wednesday

Jabbar put the explosives in the F-150 after he assembled them and planted some in ice coolers around Bourbon Street he planned to trigger with a remote detonator, but they failed to explode during the terrorist attack.

Minutes after the attack, a fire started at the Airbnb and engulfed the house. The cause of the blaze is unclear. 

Adasko told CNN that his neighbor called 911 about 4am and if they hadn’t done so, ‘we could have died’.

‘There are a lot of variables that make this scary. At 5.10am. I woke up to eight fire trucks putting out a fire at the Airbnb next door,’ he said.

‘We had smelled fire earlier in the night, but we thought it was fireworks.’

Federal agents knocked on his door about 9am and he showed them the footage.

The FBI removed bomb making materials from the two-bedroom and two-bathroom property close to the French Quarter.

The footage showed Jabbar lift boxes from the pickup's tray and carry them inside from the curbside parking

The footage showed Jabbar lift boxes from the pickup’s tray and carry them inside from the curbside parking

The driver who plowed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year in New Orleans killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens is dead following a shootout with police

The driver who plowed into pedestrians celebrating the New Year in New Orleans killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens is dead following a shootout with police

New Orleans Police pull a bomb containment vessel from the property

New Orleans Police pull a bomb containment vessel from the property

A total containment vessel was seen being taken away from the property about 8pm on New Years Day, hours after authorities evacuated residents from the area.

The area is mostly rentals available to tourists travelling to the area for the holiday period, who have now been left without a place to stay.

Authorities told one couple ‘not to count’ on being allowed back into the properties, blocking off a three-street radius.

The FBI were joined by special agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Homeland Security.

State Attorney General Liz Murrill told NBC News: ‘We know that these individuals had rented the house were using it for that purpose (making bombs)’.

The two-bed two-bathroom property was revamped by real estate developer Oliver Doxater at Wysteria Properties.

The FBI confirmed there is ‘no definitive link’ between the terror attack in New Orleans and a CyberTruck bombing in Las Vegas

Deputy Assistant Christopher Raia said that NOLA terror suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar was a lone wolf.

‘We do not assess at this point that anyone else is involved in this attack except for Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the subject you’ve already been briefed on,’ Raia said.

Jabbar working as the information technology team chief for the 82nd Airborne Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team during Leaders Training Program rotation on November 16, 2013, at Fort Polk, Louisiana

Jabbar working as the information technology team chief for the 82nd Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team during Leaders Training Program rotation on November 16, 2013, at Fort Polk, Louisiana

The FBI’s new conclusion comes a day after a CyberTruck exploded outside of a Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas just hours after the deadly car attack. 

The statement is a reversal on their previous assessment that Jabbar likely had accomplices. 

‘As you know, there’s also an FBI investigation in Las Vegas,’ Raia said. ‘We are following up on all potential leads and not ruling everything out. 

‘However, at this point, there is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas. 

‘And again, I’ll preface as I close, I’ll preface everything with what I started with in the beginning, which was this is very early in an investigation like this.’

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