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ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) — A US Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 people and wounding more, including two Israelis, had posted videos to social media hours before the carnage saying he was inspired by the Islamic State group and expressing a desire to kill, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday.
The FBI said it was investigating early Wednesday’s attack in which the driver steered around a police blockade and slammed into revelers before being shot dead by police as a terrorist act and did not believe he acted alone.
Investigators found guns and what appeared to be an improvised explosive device in the vehicle — which bore the flag of the Islamic State group — along with other explosive devices elsewhere in the city’s famed French Quarter. (Read More)
