At first, the FBI insisted that the mass-murder vehicular attack in New Orleans wasn’t terrorism. Then they announced that Shamsud-din Jabbar had several accomplices to help him place two IEDS, only to reverse that later and claimed that he’d worked alone.
However, a new report from NBC News suggests that Jabbar may have had some assistance with the bombs after all. The explosive used turns out to be so unusual that it has never been used in terror attacks in the West before now, and it’s not at all clear how Jabbar either received it or manufactured it himself:
Federal investigators examining the attack say that Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in the two devices, two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the matter told NBC News.
Authorities are investigating how Jabbar acquired the knowledge to create this homemade explosive, the…
