On New Year's Day, Shamsud Din Jabbar, after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS), drove a rented white pickup truck through a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people and injuring at least 35 more.
In the wake of Jabbar's attack, neo-Nazi, white supremacist and ultranationalist extremists have reacted online by blaming Democrats and the American political "left" for the attack, as well as spreading false claims that Jabbar was an immigrant and that the attack is a "psyop" and "false flag operation."
This report will analyze ultranationalist, neo-Nazi, and anti-government extremists' online reactions to the New Orleans January 1st terrorist attack caried about by Shamsud Din Jabbar.
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Extremists Seek To Blame Democrats And The Left For New Orleans Attack, Claim Jabbar Was A Democrat
An anti-government and ultranationalist Gab user posted a video of Shamsud Din Jabbar introducing himself in a professional video for his real estate business and mentioning his time in the military. The user's caption called Jabbar a "Democrat terrorist."
Extremists Claim New Orleans Attack Was 'False Flag' Operation
On Telegram, a Canadian account posted on January 1 alleging the attack in New Orleans was a staged "psyop". The post said: "This is the guy who plowed into the New Orleans NYE celebration on Bourbon St apparently. He did IT in the Army Reserve and is a native of Beaumont, TX. Reports say he had an ISIS flag on the back of his truck and IED's were found close by. What in the psyop is going on?"
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