US law enforcement and intelligence agencies are ramping up the attack on the copycat vehicle in the following attack New Aurelia by US military veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
According to a bulletin seen by Reuters, the FBIThe Department of Homeland Security and the US National Counterterrorism Center are “investigating possible copycat or retaliatory attacks.”
Such attacks are “likely to remain aspirational for attackers given the ease of acquiring vehicles and the low level of expertise necessary to carry out an attack,” a bulletin issued to US law enforcement agencies said.
The incident came a day after the FBI said Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native, was “100% inspired.” Islamic state a militant group to drive a truck into New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans, killing at least fourteen people and injuring dozens of others.
It warned law-enforcement and private security personnel to be aware that in many previous cases attackers who drove vehicles into crowds were armed and continued their attacks with guns or “dangerous weapons”.
The New York Times announced A confidential security report in 2019 warned that Bourbon Street, where the New Year attack took place, was vulnerable to “vehicle ramming”.
The assessment warned that the bollards blocking vehicles from entering the narrow street “do not appear to be working” and said that “the two methods of terror attack likely to be used are vehicular ramming and active shooting”.
Officials said the city began working to replace the new barriers in November and said they did not anticipate the attacker would use the sidewalk to block the police car to escape.
“This should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever been protected by pedestrian traffic in a densely populated area,” said Don Aviv, chief executive of security firm Interfor International, which conducted the 2019 security assessment.
“The French Quarter is the perfect target,” Aviv adds.
The intelligence assessment noted that the vehicle-ramming incident was the seventh such attack in the U.S. since 2001 that was inspired by foreign extremists.
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Warnings of vehicular attacks are not new. In 2010, the Homeland Security and the FBI he wrote in a memo that car attacks offer “terrorists with limited access to explosives or weapons the opportunity to attack a country with minimal prior training or experience.”
The memo also warned that attacks could be carried out in places where people gather, and that the method “offers terrorists with limited access to explosives or weapons the opportunity to attack a country with little previous training or leadership experience.”
Before the attack in New Orleans this week, the largest US vehicle attack in 2017, when Sayfull Saipov, 29, drove a pickup truck on a busy road along the Hudson River in Manhattan, killing eight people and injuring 11. Investigators. the attack is “inspired” IS.
In 2103, al-Qaida wrote about such attacks in an English-language magazine. He warned: “Ima is to use the pickup truck as a mowing machine, not to cut the grass but to cut down the enemies of Allah.”