New Orleans terror attack raises questions: Letters to the Editor Jan. 4, 2025
The Issue: The terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Years Day, killing 15 people.On the early morning of Jan.
1, 2025 a lone-wolf terrorist, inspired by ISIS, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.Shamsud-Din Jabbar also planted two improvised explosive devices (“Terror trucker kills 15 in NOLA,” Jan.
2).People do not want to live in fear; this evil must be stamped out — not treated with kid gloves.This type of attack can happen in any city: A premeditated attack, well-planned to take lives, to cause chaos.Now is the time to be more vigilant.It may be just be a single attack, or perhaps more will come.
Who knows how many terrorists are in the United States.The consequences should be severe for those caught planning or carrying out terrorist attacks.Joseph ComperchioBrooklynOur federal government and the FBI are really sharp.
They investigated, and in under 48 hours, determined that Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone.Is it really possible that they fully scrutinized, analyzed and examined the catastrophe in that short period of time?Nevertheless, their press departments contacted all the TV stations and news outlets and advised them that absolutely no one else was involved.
We have heard this story too many times before.J.
StaskewiczSouthampton, NJThe FBI claims that this act of terror was a one-person job.This is a very faulty and incomplete conclusion.The FBI must investigate to ascertain if there is a chain that brought this man to commit this deadly act.Did someone indoctrinate him? Did someone manipulate him to kill at least 15 Americans? The FBI must investigate the mosque in which he was converted.
It must find the chain that led to this atrocity and hold everyone involved to account.Antin LoewManhattanFBI Assistant Special Agent Alethea Duncan’s initial statement that the murder of 15 people by Jabbar was not terrorism demonstrates the dangerous myopia of the entire Biden-Harris administration.Until Duncan and the hu...