Washington:
Following the terrorist assault in New Orleans the place an ISIS supporter rammed a automotive right into a crowd throughout New Yr’s celebrations, President Joe Biden on Thursday (native time) reassured that US will relentlessly pursue ISIS and different terrorist organisation.
“We’re going to relentlessly pursue ISIS and different terrorist organisations the place they’re and they’ll discover no secure harbor right here,” Biden mentioned.
Biden knowledgeable that 15 folks, together with the attacker, had been killed within the assault. He then assured that nobody else was concerned within the assault.
“The variety of folks killed in New Orleans has risen to fifteen, together with the attacker, 35 folks had been injured. In the present day the FBI briefed me that as of now, we’ve got no data that anybody else is concerned within the assault. They’ve established that the attacker was the identical one that planted the explosives in these ice coolers in two close by areas within the French Quarter just some hours earlier than he rammed into the gang together with his car,” Biden mentioned.
Biden additional reiterated that the attacker Shamsud Din Jabbar from whom car an ISIS flag was discovered, has indicated his help for the terrorist organisations within the movies he made.
“As I mentioned yesterday, the attacker posted a number of movies simply a number of hours earlier than the assault indicating his sturdy help for ISIS. Federal regulation enforcement and the intelligence neighborhood are actively investigating any international or home contacts and connections that might probably be related to the assault,”
Furthermore, talking in regards to the attainable connection between the New Orleans assault and the Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion, Biden mentioned that the investigation remains to be happening, nonetheless, no proof of such a connection has been discovered so far.
A Tesla Cybertruck exploded outdoors the Trump Worldwide Lodge in Las Vegas killing one particular person and injuring seven others. The automobiles utilized in each incidents had been rented from a automotive rental web site, ‘Turo’, prompting authorities to search for hyperlinks between the 2 occasions, CNN reported.
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