BOURBON STREET N.O MASS CASUALTY EVENT (AND OTHER UPDATES)

blackbull1970

The Black Bastard
Platinum Member
It’s gonna be a interesting year.

Watch your surroundings. They recently caught this nutjob.

Who knows what he had planned and who he was gonna go after…

Prosecutors say 150 pipe bombs found at Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of explosive devices

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
December 31, 2024


Prosecutors are fighting to keep a Virginia man behind bars after they say investigators found what could be the largest number of “finished explosive devices” in FBI history at his 20-acre home near Norfolk.

The man, Brad Spafford, was arrested earlier this month on one charge of possessing an illegal unregistered short-barrel rifle. During the arrest, the FBI – including bomb technicians – executed a search warrant on his property and found a stockpile of more than 150 apparent pipe bombs, which were x-rayed on the scene, according to prosecutors. Some were allegedly marked “lethal.”

Prosecutors say the pipe bombs were found in a backpack, a detached garage, and that a few “were preloaded into an apparent wearable vest.”

In court filings arguing that Spafford should remain jailed, prosecutors allege that Spafford used pictures of President Joe Biden for target practice, “expressed support for political assassinations, and recently sought qualifications in sniper-rifle shooting at a local range.”

After the assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, prosecutors wrote that Spafford “stated that he hoped the shooter doesn’t miss ‘Kamala’” in an apparent reference to the vice president in communications with his neighbor.

The investigation into Spafford started when his neighbor reported that he was allegedly stockpiling weapons and homemade ammo and had lost three fingers on his right hand in 2021 working with a homemade explosive device, prosecutors say.

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Prosecutors say more than 150 apparent pipe bombs were found at a Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of "finished explosive devices."

In a filing Tuesday asking for the release of their client, Spafford’s attorneys noted he was only charged with a single count of possession of an unlawful firearm, that there is no evidence Spafford ever used the weapon and that he has no criminal record.

His attorneys also wrote that “professionally trained explosive technicians had to rig the devices to explode them” and that there was no evidence that he had the ability to explode the devices himself.

“The government argues that Mr. Spafford should be detained because he poses a danger to the community in spite of the fact that the government has been investigating and carefully watching Mr. Spafford for approximately two years through the use of a confidential human source who was a friend and confidant of Mr. Spafford,” his attorneys wrote. “During all of that time, there is no evidence or allegation that Mr. Spafford committed or attempted to commit any act of violence.”

His attorneys also said that using the likeness of a political leader at a shooting range is “common practice” and that his alleged “ill-advised comments about the government and political leaders” are constitutionally protected.

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Dannyblueyes

Aka Illegal Danny
BGOL Investor
Yeah, but they both drove close to 1,000 miles across the country and as soon as they got there, all the shit popped off. It doesn't seem just a coincidence as you imply.

People often rent Turo by the week or month. Cross country road trips are common. They also don't track their vehicles.

Other app based rental companies like Zipcar and City Share are heavily monitored and meant for errands and day trips. Driving 300 miles from home will ring a lot of alarm bells.

It's clear both attacks involved a fair amount of planning. It's possible they both considered the same detail.
 

Mask

"OneOfTheBest"
Platinum Member
This is upsetting, but I have a feeling there is a lot more to happen.

Hear me out....

This year alone we have had:

1. a former President/Presidential candidate almost get assassinated
2. a CEO of a billion dollar corporation get assassinated and the public praising the suspect
3. a terrorist attack and planned attack during the busiest night of a major city and weeks before the biggest sporting event is to take place in the same city

In fact, all of those things happened in the last 6 months.

I am not a conspiracy theorist but I sense some major upheaval happening in the next few years. People are fed up and I am not talking about just in the US.


Dawg the interesting thing I’ve found is, trying to figure out who’s behind this…

Trump getting shot at let me all over the place
(Deep state, outsiders or random American)

CEO ( I haven’t follow that much to know what has happened since)

New Orleans ISIS Attack(what’s the motive)
 

Duece

Naked Women
BGOL Investor
Who is Shamsud-Din Jabbar, suspect in alleged Bourbon Street terrorist attack in New Orleans?

The man who law enforcement authorities say is responsible for the New Year’s Day mass killing on Bourbon Street once advertised himself as promoting the values he learned in the U.S. Military: respect, integrity and courage.

But a far darker picture emerged on Wednesday: Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who had planned to move to New Orleans, lying dead in Army garb on a bloodied and body-strewn Bourbon Street. He was shot and killed by police, who said he intentionally rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, opened fire and carried explosives.

At least 15 were killed and dozens more were injured in the mayhem.
Affixed to the truck was a flag bearing the symbol of ISIS, the international terrorist group. Jabbar was a U.S. citizen from Texas; investigators had not confirmed his affiliation with any extremist groups yet by late Wednesday, or released a motive.

A review of public records and interviews with people who knew him offer some clues. Law enforcement officials also said they do not believe Jabbar acted alone. The incident, though, is raising questions about whether he was a homegrown radical, as the FBI has described the incident as a terrorist attack.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday evening that the FBI told him Jabbar posted videos to social media shortly before the attack "indicating that he was inspired by ISIS, expressing a desire to kill."

Jabbar was an Army veteran who enlisted in 2006 and spent nine years on active duty as an administrative clerk, with a deployment to Afghanistan in 2009. He was discharged honorably in 2020, an Army spokesperson said.

Court and property records show Jabbar lived in Fresno, Texas — about 20 miles south of Houston — with his wife until he lost his house in their divorce in August 2022.

He held a real estate license from 2019 to 2023 and worked for Deloitte, one of the nation’s largest financial services companies, records show. But he also racked up tens of thousands of dollars in credit card and other debts, according to court filings.

Jabbar lived for about two years in a mobile home in north Houston before telling his landlord he was relocating to New Orleans as a renter about a month ago, the landlord said in an interview Wednesday.

’I was shocked. I was really shocked. I really cried,” said Asia Maryam, the landlord. “He was supposed to pass the key to the other tenant. I asked them if he passed the key. They said no, he’s going to New Orleans and he’s coming back to drop off his stuff.”

Maryam said he never gave her or the neighbors any problems and paid his rent in cash on time every month. She said she recently received a call about his rental history from a prospective landlord in New Orleans.

Maryam said Jabbar worked from home, though she doesn’t know what he did for a living. Jabbar told her he was keeping his same job but would work with different clients when he moved to New Orleans.

If he had begun to associate with extremist ideologies during a period of isolation, he didn’t appear to make it known publicly. He left little of an online footprint, other than his dormant company’s website and a YouTube video he posted four years ago, promoting his real estate business.

Abdur Jabbar, 24, told The New York Times that he was a brother of the suspect, and that his brother was smart, caring and converted to Islam at a young age.

“But what he did does not represent Islam,” said the younger Jabbar. “This is more some type of radicalization, not religion.”

The current spouse of Jabbar’s ex-wife also told reporters outside of their home in Houston on Wednesday that Jabbar had been practicing Islam and begun to behave erratically, The New York Times reported.

He said Jabbar had two daughters.

Suspect grew up in Texas, worked in real estate​

Jabbar was a quiet kid in school growing up, belonging to a Muslim family that had strict rules about schoolwork, according to Edmond Dean, who said he was a childhood friend of Jabbar’s in Beaumont, where they grew up.

Dean described Jabbar as “really smart” with high scores on standardized tests. Jabbar’s parents divorced when they were still in school and Jabbar joined a local Christian church, Dean said.

Jabbar went to the University of Houston briefly after high school on an academic scholarship but dropped out after posting bad grades, Dean said. Representatives for the university did not respond to messages Wednesday.

Jabbar went on to become a real estate agent, and posted a YouTube video in 2021 promoting his business. He promised customers service at his real estate company centered on the values he learned in the Army.

He said he spent 10 years as a human resources and IT specialist in the military.

A man by the same name attended Georgia State University from 2015-2017 and graduated with a degree in computer information systems, a school spokesperson said.

A spokesperson for Deloitte said Jabbar was hired in 2021.

“We are shocked to learn of reports today that the individual identified as a suspect had any association with our firm," the spokesperson said in a statement. "Like everyone, we are outraged by this shameful and senseless act of violence and are doing all we can to assist authorities in their investigation.”


Dean said he was shocked at the news. He had lost touch with Jabbar more than a decade ago but knew Jabbar had a real estate business and was married.

“He was quiet,” Dean said. “He didn’t fight anybody. He was a pretty boy guy … A lot of girls liked him.”

Divorce filings say suspect was in debt​

Divorce filings show that Jabbar’s ex-wife said he had money troubles.

His ex-wife, Shaneen McDaniel, said in court filings that Jabbar wasted the couple’s money through “excessive cash withdrawals, gifts to paramours” and “unreasonable and unnecessary spending” that she said accumulated a mound of debt.

In correspondence attached to divorce filings, Jabbar said in February 2022 that he could no longer afford his house payments, which were past due $27,000. He also amassed $16,000 in credit card debt to pay for housing, attorney's fees and other expenses, he said.

A judge later ordered Jabbar to pay McDaniel back for some of that debt.

Jabbar’s father-in-law from his recent marriage in Texas, Lawrence Kuykendall, said by phone Wednesday that his family hadn’t spoken to Jabbar recently. He said early Wednesday that he hadn’t been contacted by law enforcement yet and declined to speak further.

“I don’t want to believe this,” Kuykendall said.

Were there multiple suspects?​

Law enforcement officials have said they believe Jabbar had accomplices, though they have not publicly identified any.

“We do not believe Jabbar was solely responsible," said Alethea Duncan, the FBI New Orleans Assistant Special Agent in Charge at a news conference.

Two pipe bombs were planted around the French Quarter, which were concealed in coolers and wired for remote detonation.

While officials are still trying to determine whether Jabbar had ties to terrorist groups, federal officials have also warned that overseas conflicts could spill into the United States.
 

Dannyblueyes

Aka Illegal Danny
BGOL Investor
It’s gonna be a interesting year.

Watch your surroundings. They recently caught this nutjob.

Who knows what he had planned and who he was gonna go after…

Prosecutors say 150 pipe bombs found at Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of explosive devices

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
December 31, 2024


Prosecutors are fighting to keep a Virginia man behind bars after they say investigators found what could be the largest number of “finished explosive devices” in FBI history at his 20-acre home near Norfolk.

The man, Brad Spafford, was arrested earlier this month on one charge of possessing an illegal unregistered short-barrel rifle. During the arrest, the FBI – including bomb technicians – executed a search warrant on his property and found a stockpile of more than 150 apparent pipe bombs, which were x-rayed on the scene, according to prosecutors. Some were allegedly marked “lethal.”

Prosecutors say the pipe bombs were found in a backpack, a detached garage, and that a few “were preloaded into an apparent wearable vest.”

In court filings arguing that Spafford should remain jailed, prosecutors allege that Spafford used pictures of President Joe Biden for target practice, “expressed support for political assassinations, and recently sought qualifications in sniper-rifle shooting at a local range.”

After the assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, prosecutors wrote that Spafford “stated that he hoped the shooter doesn’t miss ‘Kamala’” in an apparent reference to the vice president in communications with his neighbor.

The investigation into Spafford started when his neighbor reported that he was allegedly stockpiling weapons and homemade ammo and had lost three fingers on his right hand in 2021 working with a homemade explosive device, prosecutors say.

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Prosecutors say more than 150 apparent pipe bombs were found at a Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of "finished explosive devices."

In a filing Tuesday asking for the release of their client, Spafford’s attorneys noted he was only charged with a single count of possession of an unlawful firearm, that there is no evidence Spafford ever used the weapon and that he has no criminal record.

His attorneys also wrote that “professionally trained explosive technicians had to rig the devices to explode them” and that there was no evidence that he had the ability to explode the devices himself.

“The government argues that Mr. Spafford should be detained because he poses a danger to the community in spite of the fact that the government has been investigating and carefully watching Mr. Spafford for approximately two years through the use of a confidential human source who was a friend and confidant of Mr. Spafford,” his attorneys wrote. “During all of that time, there is no evidence or allegation that Mr. Spafford committed or attempted to commit any act of violence.”

His attorneys also said that using the likeness of a political leader at a shooting range is “common practice” and that his alleged “ill-advised comments about the government and political leaders” are constitutionally protected.

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So Brad got arrested for simple possession of an illegal / unregistered weapon and the FBI steps in? That would be like the DEA raiding someone's house because a cop found an eight ball in their glove compartment.

Only reason this would happen is if the FBI already knew who he was and what he was up to. They probably been watching him for months.
 

slam

aka * My Name Is Not $lam *
Super Moderator
It’s gonna be a interesting year.

Watch your surroundings. They recently caught this nutjob.

Who knows what he had planned and who he was gonna go after…

Prosecutors say 150 pipe bombs found at Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of explosive devices

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
December 31, 2024


Prosecutors are fighting to keep a Virginia man behind bars after they say investigators found what could be the largest number of “finished explosive devices” in FBI history at his 20-acre home near Norfolk.

The man, Brad Spafford, was arrested earlier this month on one charge of possessing an illegal unregistered short-barrel rifle. During the arrest, the FBI – including bomb technicians – executed a search warrant on his property and found a stockpile of more than 150 apparent pipe bombs, which were x-rayed on the scene, according to prosecutors. Some were allegedly marked “lethal.”

Prosecutors say the pipe bombs were found in a backpack, a detached garage, and that a few “were preloaded into an apparent wearable vest.”

In court filings arguing that Spafford should remain jailed, prosecutors allege that Spafford used pictures of President Joe Biden for target practice, “expressed support for political assassinations, and recently sought qualifications in sniper-rifle shooting at a local range.”

After the assassination attempt on President-elect Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, prosecutors wrote that Spafford “stated that he hoped the shooter doesn’t miss ‘Kamala’” in an apparent reference to the vice president in communications with his neighbor.

The investigation into Spafford started when his neighbor reported that he was allegedly stockpiling weapons and homemade ammo and had lost three fingers on his right hand in 2021 working with a homemade explosive device, prosecutors say.

gov-uscourts-vaed-564917-17.jpg

Prosecutors say more than 150 apparent pipe bombs were found at a Virginia man’s home in what could be FBI’s largest-ever seizure of "finished explosive devices."

In a filing Tuesday asking for the release of their client, Spafford’s attorneys noted he was only charged with a single count of possession of an unlawful firearm, that there is no evidence Spafford ever used the weapon and that he has no criminal record.

His attorneys also wrote that “professionally trained explosive technicians had to rig the devices to explode them” and that there was no evidence that he had the ability to explode the devices himself.

“The government argues that Mr. Spafford should be detained because he poses a danger to the community in spite of the fact that the government has been investigating and carefully watching Mr. Spafford for approximately two years through the use of a confidential human source who was a friend and confidant of Mr. Spafford,” his attorneys wrote. “During all of that time, there is no evidence or allegation that Mr. Spafford committed or attempted to commit any act of violence.”

His attorneys also said that using the likeness of a political leader at a shooting range is “common practice” and that his alleged “ill-advised comments about the government and political leaders” are constitutionally protected.

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Dam Isle of White ?... shit thats up the street ...he probably out in the sticks ...Smithfield

still a 20 min ride to Portsmouth & Newport News probably ...smh



Isle of Wight County is a county located in the Hampton Roads region of the U.S. state of Virginia. It was named after the Isle of Wight, England, south of the Solent, from where many of its early colonists had come.


all u need to know ...racist as fuck ...:smh:



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CoTtOnMoUf

DUMBED DOWN TO BLEND IN
BGOL Legend
People often rent Turo by the week or month. Cross country road trips are common. They also don't track their vehicles.

Other app based rental companies like Zipcar and City Share are heavily monitored and meant for errands and day trips. Driving 300 miles from home will ring a lot of alarm bells.

It's clear both attacks involved a fair amount of planning. It's possible they both considered the same detail.


The shit happened a few hours apart.

Both had explosives with them.

Both committed suicide.

I'm convinced it's connected.
 
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D24OHA

Rising Star
BGOL Investor
FUCK....

RIGHT BY THE POLICE. HE WAS GONNA DO IT NO MATTER WHAT!

There's no way to prevent this kind of attack.

Keep your head on a swivel is all you can do. You gotta still go outside and live life.

I was gonna say, having the barriers up would've prevented it.....

But upon further review, the barriers only block the actual roadway. There was a cop SUV blocking the roadway. Dude went on the sidewalk and directly at pedestrians.......

N.O. may need to invest in barriers to block the sidewalks....... (they can barely maintain the barriers they have and potholes take nearly 300 days to fix) but that may be wishful thinking.....


FUCK, I HATE that anyone did this shit......

There's no rational target/ motive.....

It's terror just for terror's sake.......
 

Journey

Rising Star
Registered
He just made that much harder for us :smh: Especially people in the military with Muslim names.

They about to catch hell from chump when he gets in office!

What a piece of shit!!
Well not just the military but other areas or walks of life. If your muslim or appear to be muslim in public, people are gonna look at you side ways or do a double take. I would feel bad about it, but it would cross your mind though if your in a crowded area like an airport or a mall. It's only human.
 

DC_Dude

Rising Star
BGOL Investor


As I process the devastating events that unfolded in New Orleans, I am in utter disbelief. Shamsud-Din Jabbar served under my Troop Command during our deployment to Afghanistan. He worked quietly and professionally in the S1 shop and as a mail clerk, ensuring the little things that kept us all connected to home were done with care and precision. He was a great Soldier, someone who showed discipline and dedication.

To think that the same individual who once embodied quiet professionalism could harbor so much hate, leading to such unspeakable atrocities, is incomprehensible and heartbreaking. This transformation is a stark reminder of the dangers of unchecked anger, isolation, and hate.

Please watch out for one another. Be there for your brothers and sisters in arms, your friends, and even those who seem distant or troubled. Don’t let hate take root—either in your own heart or in the hearts of those around you. We must care for one another before it’s too late.

My prayers go out to the victims and their families. May they find strength in this time of unimaginable grief. Let’s honor their memory by ensuring we stand together against hate in all its forms.
 
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