New Orleans Attacker Visited Egypt and Canada in 2023, FBI Says
- Bureau investigating whether foreign trips linked to attack
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Law enforcement officials investigate the scene of the truck attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Jan. 1.
Photographer: Matthew Hinton/AFP/Getty Images
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New Orleans truck attacker Shamsud-Din Jabbar traveled to Egypt and Canada in the summer of 2023, and investigators are examining whether the foreign trips were part of his preparations, an FBI official said.
“Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, whom he met with, how those trips may or may not tie into his actions in our city,” Lyonel Myrthil, special agent in charge of the bureau’s New Orleans field office, told reporters Sunday.