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‘Not surprising’: Reporter reportedly shows up to New Orleans attacker’s home before FBI

January 2, 2025 | | Print Article

Anger against the FBI is brewing after a reporter showed up outside the New Orleans ISIS attacker’s home before them.

Around 4:29 pm Wednesday afternoon, over 12 hours after the New Orleans attack, Jennie Taer of the New York Post revealed on Twitter/X that her team “were on scene before” the FBI arrived at 1:00 pm.

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Her shocking post quickly went viral, attracting tens of thousands of angry comments directed at the FBI. Among the critics was Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn.

“The fact that a reporter has better intel than the FBI tells us all we need to know,” she tweeted late Wednesday evening. “The FBI has failed its core mission.”

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Others shared her fury.

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As previously reported, New Orleans ISIS attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a former Army soldier, drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street very early on New Year’s Day morning, killing over a dozen before he was fatally shot by the police.

According to Taer’s report, published a few hours after her tweet, Jabbar lived “in a run-down trailer park where he kept sheep and goats in the yard — just blocks from the local mosque.”

“Geese, chickens, and sheep roamed freely in Jabbar’s yard,” Taer, as well as two other Post writers, reported.

“One neighbor told The Post she spoke only Urdu, Pakistan’s national language. The neighborhood is also within walking distance of the local mosque, Masjid Bilal — where no one answered the telephone on Wednesday,” their reporting continued.

The mosque has since been accused of telling its patrons to not cooperate with the authorities:

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Unfortunately, Jabbar’s neighbors knew little about him. One neighbor, Francois Venegas, described him as a “simple person” who kept to himself.

“[He was] pretty quiet … Just walking, [he would say] ‘Hello,’ ‘Hola,’ and that was it,” Venegas recalled.

“Jabbar had been arrested twice: once in Katy, Texas, for theft in 2002, court records show, and again three years later for driving without a valid license,” according to Taer.

“He had also been divorced twice, and the failed marriages apparently left him in financial ruin. Amid his second divorce in 2022, he said he had racked up more than $16,000 in credit card debt paying court fees and expenses for a second home,” the reporting continues.

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