Senate to investigate Bourbon Street terror attack, Trump Tower cyberattack

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Thursday that it is investigating the terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed 15 people on New Year’s Day, as well as the explosion that took place at the entrance of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, which killed the criminal who committed the crime on the same day.

Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., sent letters to the Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department and FBI asking for more information about New Orleans shooter Shamsud. Dean Jabbar’s background and motivation.

Also killing Jabbar’s Facebook activity, the Texas native, who has been demanding more information from Meta about the planned attack, posted five videos on his Facebook page just hours before he drove a truck over New Year’s Eve fans on Bourbon Street. .

“The public deserves full transparency and the truth about the New Orleans terrorist attack and the Las Vegas car bombing,” the chairman wrote. “While the investigation into both incidents is ongoing, we expect your agencies to respond to regulatory requests from Congress on this very serious issue.”

He said that the Internal Security Committee has defeated terrorists for the past 4 years

The FBI has confirmed claims to senators’ offices that the FBI’s New Orleans Field Office Special Agent in Charge (SAC) was on vacation during the New Year’s Eve attack and did not return until January 2.

“These are major public events that SAC should be attending. The FBI failed to address this in any of its joint statements to Congress and should provide more information,” the chairman said.

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Additionally, Grassley and Johnson are asking for information about the background and motivations of Matthew Alan Levelsberger, the man behind the explosion outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas on January 1. Exploding a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump Tower.

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Levelsberger, who served as an Army sergeant major, is from Colorado Springs. “He enlisted as a Special Forces trainee and served on active duty from January 2006 to March 2011, then served in the National Guard from March 2011 to July 2012 and the Army Reserve from July 2006 to December 2012,” the chairman wrote. . In the year In December 2012, he re-entered US Army Special Operations and was on leave from a duty station in Germany at the time of his death.

While the FBI said there was no connection between the two incidents that happened on the same day, Grassley and Johnson said both criminals had overlapped while serving in the military at Fort Bragg and Afghanistan, and both rented cars from a company called Turo.

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The FBI continues to investigate the Bourbon Street shooting.

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Jabbar had visited New Orleans on two occasions before the January 1st attack – once on October 30, 2024 and again on November 10, 2024. The terrorist visited Cairo, Egypt and Toronto, Canada before the attack. The FBI said.

Although Jabbar acted alone, authorities are still investigating whether he had any accomplices.