New images have been released of a homemade bomb containing a nail and an “extremely rare explosive compound” planted by New Orleans terrorist Shamsuddin Jabbar along Bourbon Street ahead of the New Year's Day massacre.
photograph Get ABC News It shows a steel tube surrounded by a row of nails connected to a radio-controlled receiver.
The bomb was intended to cause further carnage after Jabbar rammed his truck into revelers, killing 14 and injuring dozens more. Fortunately, however, the explosives did not detonate before New Orleans police shot and killed Jabbar.
“We believe the transmitter was and would have been functional, but the New Orleans Police Department subdued him before he could access the transmitter and activate the device.” said Joshua Jackson, Special Agent in Charge of the Field. Division told reporters on Sunday.
Other photos showed glass bottles containing flammable liquid, which authorities found inside the rental truck, also intended to cause maximum damage, ABC News reported.
The explosives, found in a pair of coolers left at the scene by Jabbar before the attack, were made from a “very rare explosive compound” that officials said had previously been used in the U.S. and Europe. It has never been used in a terrorist attack.
The U.S. Army veteran set up the explosive with an improvised remote detonator made from readily available materials, including electric matches and a “hobby switch.”
Authorities said he planned to set off the bomb from a transmitter in his truck.
Law enforcement is still investigating how Jabbar was able to create the explosives by setting up a bomb-making bench in his Texas home.
The newspaper's exclusive photos of Mr. Jabbar's workshop reveal a cache of bottles of chemicals seized by the FBI and a long list of compounds used to make bombs.
Authorities also found bomb-making materials in Jabbar's Airbnb rental on Mandeville Street, but the terrorists tried to set it on fire “to destroy it and other evidence of his crimes,” the FBI said. Ta.
Jabbar, who has been divorced three times and spent more than a decade in the military, drove a rented electric truck into the crowd with an ISIS flag on it.
While driving from his hometown of Houston to New Orleans, he posted a video on Facebook expressing support for a terrorist organization.
