FBI Director Christopher Wray warned during an interview on Sunday that the threat of Islamic terrorism was much more significant than most in the U.S. realize.
Wray made the remarks during an interview on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; just two weeks after an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 14 people on New Year&#8217;s Day in New Orleans&#8217; French Quarter.
&#8220;There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen just a few months ago who we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest,&#8221; Wray said. &#8220;This guy was trying to get into the U.S., to get to New York City to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn. And, in his words, not my words, his words, he wanted to conduct the largest attack in the U.S. since 9/11.&#8221;
&#8220;So what I would say to the American people is that, when you think these things are happening half a world away, it&#8217;s like that little inscription on your mirror in your car, &#8216;Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear,'&#8221; he continued.
Wray said that the terrorist in New Orleans, a U.S. citizen, was &#8220;radicalized online&#8221; and was &#8220;determined to try to murder as many innocent people as he could in the name of ISIS.&#8221;
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He said that lone wolf attacks were the most difficult to stop because terrorists like one in New Orleans &#8220;radicalize not in years but in weeks,&#8221; and they use crude methods of attack that are deadly.
&#8220;And if you think about that old saying about connecting the dots, there are not a lot of dots out there to connect,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And there&#8217;s very little time in which to connect them.&#8221;
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The suspect behind the New Orleans terrorist attack was inspired by ISIS and radicalized online, says FBI Director Christopher Wray.
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Wray Warns Islamic Terror Is Much Closer To Being Problem In U.S. Than People Realize

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Vice President-elect JD Vance on Sunday warned that the incoming Trump administration will enable Israel to “knock out” Hamas unless a deal is reached to free dozens of hostages.
Vance made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News Sunday. While Hamas has proved difficult to negotiate with, Vance said that Trump’s threats to allow Israel to obliterate the terror group will force its leaders to strike a deal and release hostages as early as this week.
“It&#8217;s very clear that President Trump threatening Hamas and making it clear that there is going to be hell to pay is part of the reason why we&#8217;ve made progress on getting some hostages out,” Vance told Fox News anchor Shannon Bream.
“We&#8217;re hopeful there&#8217;s going to be a deal that&#8217;s struck towards the very end of Biden&#8217;s administration, maybe the last day or two, but regardless of when that deal is struck, it will be because people are terrified that there are going to be consequences for Hamas,” he added.
According to Vance, the consequences against Hamas if a deal is not reached would be severe.
“I think number one, it means enabling the Israelis to knock out the final couple of battalions of Hamas and their leadership. It means very aggressive sanctions and financial penalties on those who are supporting terrorist organizations in the Middle East. It means actually doing the job of American leadership, which Donald Trump did very well for 4 years,” Vance said.
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Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff traveled to Israel over the weekend to press for negotiations between Hamas and Israel for a ceasefire and the release of dozens of hostages. Witkoff has pushed for the deal to be concluded before January 20 when Trump takes office, according to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/trumps-israel-gaza-deal-jan-20-witkoff">Axios</a>.
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas – which have been mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and the U.S. – are close to bearing fruit, according to Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst.
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“The final draft of a ceasefire agreement was reportedly presented overnight. A deal between Israel and Hamas could be just hours away to start a process that would see Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, followed by an end to the war in Gaza,” Yingst reported on Monday morning.
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The final draft of a ceasefire agreement was reportedly presented overnight. A deal between Israel and Hamas could be just hours away to start a process that would see Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners, followed by an end to the war in Gaza.
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Vance: Trump Will Enable Israel To ‘Knock Out’ Hamas Unless Hostages Released

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Israel

Politics

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-orleans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New Orleans</a> Police Department released bodycam footage on Friday that showed Islamic terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar firing upon responding police officers after he mowed down people with his truck on Bourbon Street on New Year&#8217;s Day.
Jabbar, a 42-year-old Army veteran from Texas, was shot and killed when officers returned fire. The terrorist killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more when he sped down Bourbon Street in the early morning hours of New Year&#8217;s Day. Footage taken from the bodycam worn by officer Luis Robles shows him and at least two other officers approaching Jabbar&#8217;s rented truck. Robles and officer Christian Beyer stood by the truck with their guns drawn after Jabbar crashed, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/police-shooting-truck-attack-new-orleans-6e4e5163f331b7aa5f467ee8cb8e8a5a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
One officer yelled, &#8220;Put your hands up&#8221; before gunfire erupted. The bodycam footage showed a flash come from Jabbar&#8217;s gun before the officers ran for cover. Beyer, officer Jacobie Jordan, and Sgt. Nigel Daggs returned fire and killed the terrorist.
New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick called the officers &#8220;national heroes&#8221; and said they responded to the threat according to procedures.
“Officers are trained for shoot scenarios like that — they’re highly trained, and that’s what you saw. These are split-second decisions,” Kirkpatrick said.
“All officers are faced with ‘shoot, don’t shoot.’ And this was clearly within the law and clearly, solidly within policy,” she added.
Daggs is a 21-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department while Beyer and Jordan have been with the department for nearly two years. Jordan and officer Joseph Rodrigue were wounded in the shootout and have since been released from the hospital, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-police-release-bodycam-footage-shootout-bourbon-street-att-rcna187137" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
WARNING: The following footage could be disturbing to some viewers.
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Authorities are still investigating the attack, and Kilpatrick said more bodycam footage will be released in the future. Officials are also looking into the security measures that were in place to protect people who were ringing in the New Year. Despite owning portable steel barriers that are often used to block off streets during large events, the city did not use any of the steel barriers to block off Bourbon Street during the New Year&#8217;s Day celebration. Jabbar accessed the bustling street by driving past a police car that was parked to block it off.
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Kilpatrick said last week that she didn&#8217;t know about the steel barriers in the city&#8217;s possession.
“I didn’t know about them, but we have them,” Kirkpatrick told reporters, according to <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/us/bourbon-street-barricades-new-orleans/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>. “And so we have been able now to put them out.”
Last week, the FBI <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-orleans-terrorist-visited-city-twice-before-attack-filmed-bourbon-street-with-meta-glasses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> footage of the terrorist placing two IEDs on Bourbon Steet just over an hour before his attack. Jabbar hid the IEDs in coolers, but they weren&#8217;t detonated during the attack. Authorities found a transmitter to detonate the IEDs in the terrorist&#8217;s truck along with an ISIS flag.
Jabbar recently became radicalized. In a video he recorded in the rented pickup truck on his way to carry out the attack, Jabbar said, “I wanted to record this message for my family. I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/new-orleans-attack-shamsud-din-jabbar-isis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. In the video, Jabbar added that he considered killing his family members so they could “witness the killing of the apostates.”

New Orleans terror attack

Bodycam Footage Shows NOLA Terrorist Firing On Police After Driving Through Crowd

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U.S. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Police</a> arrested a man on Wednesday evening near the Grant Memorial who claimed that he had napalm in his car, according to a source familiar with the incident.
The incident happened around the time that President-elect Donald Trump was set to visit the U.S. Capitol to pay his respects to the late former President Jimmy Carter.
A grounds crew worker noticed the man trying to light something on fire by his car, which was parked in front of the statute, according to a source familiar with the matter.
When asked what he was doing, the man communicated that he had &#8220;napalm&#8221; in the car and was &#8220;trying to light it on fire,&#8221; according to the source.
Napalm is a highly flammable substance that was developed by U.S. scientists during WWII and has been used on the battlefield in flamethrowers and bombs.
Capitol Police acknowledged on X that they had responded to the incident after receiving a suspicious vehicle report.
&#8220;Our officers have taken the driver into custody,&#8221; USCP said in a statement. &#8220;As is routine, our bomb squad will investigate the suspicious vehicle.&#8221;
Police shut down a wide area around the vehicle and advised the public to stay away.
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Our officers have taken the driver into custody. As is routine, our bomb squad will investigate the suspicious vehicle.
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In a separate incident on Wednesday, USCP arrested and charged a man for trying to bring weapons inside the Visitor Center.
Police officers stopped that man just after 2 p.m. after he “tried to get a machete into the Capitol Visitor Center (CVC),” USCP said in a statement.
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“During security screening at the CVC’s north doors, our officers spotted a machete in the man’s bag, stopped the x-ray machine, arrested the man, and secured the machete,” police said.
Police added that they also found three additional knives in his bag.
“The man is being arrested for multiple charges of Carrying a Dangerous Weapon,” they said.
This is a breaking news story; refresh the page for update.

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Capitol Police Arrest Man Claiming To Have ‘Napalm’ At Grant Memorial

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In the face of those who have criticized the Israeli military for targeting hospitals where Hamas terrorists hide, on Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces released a video in which a member of the terrorist group Hamas admitted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad use hospitals to hide their terrorists and weapons specifically so that the Israeli military won’t target them.
The Israel Defense Forces released a video of Anas Muhammad Faiz Al-Sharif, 21, a Hamas terrorist who had been hiding out at Kamal Adwan Hospital, being questioned. Using a civilian or another protected person as a shield for military operations is a direct violation of International Humanitarian Law and is considered a war crime. That is clearly stated in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“I work at Kamal Adwan Hospital as a cleaning supervisor,” Al-Sharif stated. “I joined the Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) in 2021 in the Nukhba forces in the Western Battalion.”
The “Nukhba forces” are an “elite unit within Hamas, which includes operatives chosen by senior Hamas leaders,” CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbctv18.com/world/israel-hamas-war-who-are-nukhba-force-military-unit-palestine-army-gaza-idf-18042121.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>. “Five Hamas leaders secretly planned the bloody invasion of southern Israel on Oct. 7, with 70 commandos from the terrorist group’s elite Nukhba Force leading the charge across the Gaza border, the London-based, pan-Arab Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported on Wednesday,” JNS <a href="https://www.jns.org/five-hamas-leaders-planned-oct-7-attack-70-nukhba-fighters-led-the-charge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in January 2024.
“Where were you arrested?” the interrogator asked.
“Inside Kamal Adwan Hospital,” he replied.
“When you were at Kamal Adwan Hospital, who else was there?” the interrogator continued.
“There were people there, the staff — the medical team I work with daily and directly. There were also operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad from the Al-Nasser Division and other organizations in Northern Gaza,” Al-Sharif admitted.
“Why were you hiding in Kamal Adwan Hospital?” the interrogator queried.
“They believe it is a safe haven for them because the military cannot directly target it,” Al-Sharif said.
“What do you mean when you say it is a ‘safe haven’?” the interrogator pressed.
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“Because there are civilians and patients there,” Al-Sharif answered. “They think the military cannot bomb it, such as with a missile from an F-16 or by demolishing the building.”
“Now, when the operatives were in the hospital, what were they doing?” the interrogator wanted to know.
“The operatives were there transporting equipment and weapons like AK-47s &#8230; and pistols,” Al-Sharif revealed. “The weapons were transferred to and from the hospital from the outside in and from the inside out within the hospital. It was used for observation and patrols. They leave the hospital late at night; they arrive at the hospital in the morning. Inside the hospital, they distribute the grenades and mortars equipment for attacking tanks, for ambush positions and for tunnels underground to the command and control center, whether at Kamal Adwan, Faluja (Jabaliya Camp), or in new locations where the operatives are located.”
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Kamal Adwan Hospital after Israeli attacks on Gaza

WATCH: Hamas Member Admits Terrorists And Lethal Weapons Are In Hospitals So Israel Won’t Attack

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World

Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be the next director of national intelligence received a boost from a group of people well-acquainted with the threat of terrorism.
A former al Qaeda hostage, his parents, and the parents of an ISIS victim signed a joint letter backing Gabbard’s nomination as key to protecting Americans from terrorism, especially with the ascent of a new terror group in Syria.
Letter signatory Theo Padnos was kidnapped and held by the Nusra Front, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, from 2012 to 2014. His parents, Nancy Curtis and Michael Padnos, also signed the letter, as well as Carl and Marsha Mueller, whose daughter, Kayla, is believed to have been executed by ISIS in 2015 after being held captive in Syria for over two years.
Gabbard’s experience in national security and her service in the military has given her the necessary experience to understand the threat of terrorism, the letter says, according to a copy obtained by The Daily Wire.
“[Gabbard] has been compassionate towards terrorism’s victims. She has been a fierce advocate for bringing its practitioners to justice,” the letter says.
“American hostage families know that Tulsi Gabbard has always been on our side. We know this because all of us have been in the position of needing information and connections in a country in which the American foreign policy apparatus has been unable to provide even the most basic forms of help,” it continues.
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After the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s dictatorial regime last month, large swaths of Syria have fallen under the control of the Turkish-backed, U.S.-recognized terror group Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham, the leader of which has past ties to al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
“Now that the individuals who helped to build up ISIS and al Qaeda in Syria have taken charge of the country, we expect terrorists there to have a much freer hand in the future,” the letter says. It goes on to warn that terror groups in Syria will wield their influence over the internet to groom and radicalize “lone wolves in the West.”
“Given the threat that has lately surfaced in New Orleans, we feel that the sooner the senate confirms Tulsi Gabbard the better, as the nation needs leadership that will keep Americans safe,” the letter says.
The endorsement comes at a key time for Gabbard, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s more controversial nominees, as she prepares for a Senate confirmation hearing this month. Gabbard has been scrutinized for her past efforts to foster a closer U.S. relationship with Assad, whom she met with in 2017.
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Victims Of Syrian Terror Groups Throw Support Behind Tulsi Gabbard For DNI

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The 42-year-old man behind the terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Year&#8217;s Day visited the city at least twice in recent months and used Meta smart glasses to film Bourbon Street — where he drove a truck into a crowd of pedestrians, killing 14 people.
FBI New Orleans Special Agent in Charge Lyonel Myrthil said on Sunday that Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Houston stayed at a rental home for a few days beginning on October 30 and then revisited the city on November 10, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/05/us/new-orleans-attack/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. During his trip to New Orleans in late October, Jabbar rode a bike on Bourbon Street and used Meta smart glasses to record and plan his attack, according to the FBI.
On Sunday, the FBI also revealed new footage of the terrorist placing two IEDs on Bourbon Steet just over an hour before his attack. Jabbar hid the IEDs in coolers. One of the coolers was dragged a block by “someone on Bourbon Street, who we have no reason to believe was involved,&#8221; according to Myrthil. The FBI reiterated that it believes Jabbar acted alone.
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After driving his rented Ford pickup truck through Bourbon Street, Jabbar got into a shootout with police officers and was killed. The terrorist, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, was wearing the Meta smart glasses when he died, and officers found a transmitter to detonate the IEDs in the truck. Jabbar reportedly did not activate the smart glasses during his attack. <a href="https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Meta smart glasses</a> can record videos, make calls, send texts, and answer questions through Meta AI. The smart glasses typically cost between $300 and $400.
Before carrying out his attack, Jabbar set fire to his rental home, a move authorities believe was meant to &#8220;hide evidence of his crimes&#8221; and potentially distract first responders before he drove through the crowd gathered on Bourbon Street. The FBI is looking into multiple trips Jabbar took in recent years, including a trip to Cairo, Egypt, from June 22 to July 3, 2023, and a trip to Ontario, Canada, from July 10 to July 13, 2023.
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“Our agents are getting answers as to where he went, who he met with, and how those trips may or may not tie into his actions here in our city of New Orleans,” Myrthil <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/05/new-orleans-attack-smart-glasses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, recently became radicalized. In a video he recorded in the rented pickup truck on his way to carry out the attack, Jabbar said, “I wanted to record this message for my family. I wanted you to know that I joined ISIS earlier this year,” according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/us/new-orleans-attack-shamsud-din-jabbar-isis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. In the video, Jabbar added that he considered killing his family members so they could “witness the killing of the apostates.”

New Orleans Terrorist Visited City Twice Before Attack, Filmed Bourbon Street With Meta Glasses

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Michael McCaul Highlights Terror Threats Trump Must Focus On

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House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-green" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Green</a> (R-TN) said this week that the U.S. needed more FBI personnel to stop people from being radicalized into becoming terrorists after a man who recently converted to Islam declared his allegiance to ISIS and murdered 14 people in New Orleans this week.
Green&#8217;s remarks come after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a rented truck to mow down people in New Orleans&#8217; French Quarter before he got out and opened fire on law enforcement.
“What our FBI needs is more resources,&#8221; Green told CBS News on Friday morning.
He said that agents need to be looking for individuals who are online and becoming radicalized inside the U.S.
&#8220;The fusion centers do a pretty good job most of the time, but a situation like this where a guy gets radicalized, we don’t know exactly when, and then is turned on to do a mission like this, that’s the information that’s going to require boots on the ground all over the country, in places where people get radicalized,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;And they pulled back after — initially, after 9/11, the FBI was everywhere looking, they caught those guys in upstate New York by doing that human intelligence,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But they’ve pulled back over the past several years, and they need to put that back into place.&#8221;
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Homeland Security Chairman On ISIS Terror Attack: U.S. Needs More FBI Agents To Stop Islamic Terror

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/las-vegas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department</a> (LVMPD) released a letter from the man who blew himself up in a Tesla Cybertruck this week that they located on one of two cellphones they recovered from inside the vehicle.
The letter was located on an app on the cellphone belonging to Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, the U.S. Army Green Beret who they identified as the person who shot himself inside the vehicle moments before the explosives he placed in it detonated.
FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans said that the incident was “a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues.”
In the letter, Livelsberger said that the U.S. was &#8220;the best country&#8221; to ever exist, but that in its current state, it was &#8220;terminally ill and headed toward collapse.&#8221;
He talked about the decline in traditional values in the letter and warned that political elites view the masses as &#8220;cattle.&#8221;
He warned that most people had no purpose in life and were &#8220;just sitting around waiting to die.&#8221;
&#8220;No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air, no hope,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Our children are addicted to screens by the age of two.&#8221;
He said that Americans were &#8220;too fat to join the military yet we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea and Iran before 2030.&#8221;
He called for focusing on increasing strength and winning in society and removing those from government who do not like those ideals; ending the war in Ukraine through a negotiated settlement as fast as possible; ending wealth inequality and improving conditions on America&#8217;s streets so there were not so many homeless people; and stop obsessing over diversity.
&#8220;We are all diverse and DEI is a cancer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Thankfully we rejected the DEI candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend at Bernie’s.&#8221;
He said that his decision to detonate the bomb he created was &#8220;not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call.&#8221;
&#8220;Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?&#8221;
He said that he did it because he needed to &#8220;cleanse&#8221; his &#8220;mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.&#8221;
He called on Americans to rally around some of the biggest figures in the Republican Party &#8220;and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans!&#8221;
Livelsberger said that the U.S. was being led by &#8220;weak and feckless&#8221; leaders who only care about enriching themselves.
He called for taking action against the individuals in the U.S. government whom he said were ruining the country, warning &#8220;they all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.&#8221;

Cybertruck Explosion Outside Trump International Hotel Investigated For Terror Ties

Police Release Manifesto From Suspect Who Blew Up Cybertruck

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Master Sgt. Matthew Livelsberger, the U.S. Army Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck on New Year&#8217;s Day in front of the Trump International Hotel in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/las-vegas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Las Vegas</a>, reportedly suffered from PTSD and other personal issues when he decided to take his own life this week.
Officials from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), FBI, and ATF shared updates from their investigation into the incident at a press conference on Friday afternoon.
They revealed that they have found no connection between the incident in Las Vegas and the Islamic terrorist attack that unfolded just hours prior to the incident in New Orleans where more than a dozen people were murdered.
Law enforcement confirmed Livelsberger&#8217;s identity through a variety of investigative techniques, including DNA matching.
LVMPD Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said that Livelsberger documented his activities during the 10 days prior to the explosion in an app on his cellphone, including where he traveled, weapons he bought, camping gear he bought, and more. They said that at the moment, there did not appear to be any significant meaning behind his decision to commit the act in a Tesla Cybertruck.
Koren said that the incident was being viewed as a suicide via a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED), even though he took his life with a single gunshot wound to the head just moments before the explosion.
Police released the following excerpts from writings they discovered on one of his cellphones that they recovered from inside the vehicle:
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<li>&#8220;Fellow Servicemembers, Veterans, and all Americans, TIME TO WAKE UP! We are being led by weak and feckless leadership who only serve to enrich themselves.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;This was not a terrorist attack, it was a wake up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives? Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I&#8217;ve lost and relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist! But right now we are terminally ill and headed toward collapse.&#8221;</li>
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Koren suggested that more excerpts from his writings could be released in the future.
&#8220;He does offer additional information that is varying on the spectrum in terms of political grievances, issues about the conflicts elsewhere, not here, domestic issues, societal issues, a variety of other things, including personal challenges as well,&#8221; Koren said. &#8220;We are intending to release those initial letters so people can understand the best they can what the person&#8217;s thought process was at one point in time.&#8221;
FBI Special Agent Spencer Evans said that law enforcement has not been able to identify any information indicating that Livelsberger belonged to any kind of a terrorist group or had any contact with one.
&#8220;Investigative steps have discovered, and information from the Army indicates, that he likely suffered from PTSD, and we are also aware that there were potential other family issues or personal grievances in his own life that may have been contributing factors,&#8221; Evans said.
He said that the Livelsberger &#8220;considered, planned, and thoughtfully prepared for this act alone.&#8221;
Evans again added that the incident was &#8220;a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues.&#8221;
He addressed an email that was released on a popular podcast that is allegedly from Livelsberger, saying that the FBI has &#8220;not conclusively determined that that&#8217;s from the subject, but feel confident, based on evidence that we&#8217;re uncovering on his devices, that that was, in fact, from [the suspect].&#8221;
&#8220;So in terms of the so-called manifesto that&#8217;s circling or circulating online, we have strong evidence to suggest that it was the subject that wrote it, but we haven&#8217;t conclusively proven that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that evidence relates to other evidence that we&#8217;re finding, that we&#8217;re able to compare that lead us to believe it was in fact him who sent it.&#8221;
Evans said that Livelsberger was not on the FBI&#8217;s radar because he had no criminal history.

Man Who Blew Up Cybertruck Was ‘Struggling With PTSD And Other Issues,’ Officials Say

The owner of the Tesla Cybertruck that was blown up in front of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas says the suspected attacker was “pretty calm and chill” when renting the car days earlier in Colorado, and stayed in contact with questions about the vehicle up until the day before the explosion.
In an exclusive interview with The Daily Wire, the owner, whose name is being withheld due to privacy concerns, says he spent an hour with Matthew Livelsberger when the latter picked up the car on Saturday, December 28. The vehicle was rented using Turo, a service that facilitates rentals directly from car owners, and the pair met at a Denver, Colorado hotel, according to text message correspondence reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Livelsberger appeared “normal” during the interaction, and set the car’s navigation for Las Vegas soon after renting the car, the owner says.
“He didn’t know how to use the truck and so I, just like every Turo that I rent out, I walk them through everything,” the owner told The Daily Wire. The owner described Livelsberger as “for all intents and purposes, a normal dude,” saying that “he seemed pretty calm and chill,” the owner said.
The owner, who has cooperated with authorities, says Livelsberger said he intended to drive the Cybertruck to the Grand Canyon, and recalled questioning Livelsberger about having such a long drive on the itinerary for a short three-day rental. But he also recalls noticing that he was navigating to the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas from the start.
“‘That’s a really long drive for three days. How are you going to do that?’&#8221; the owner says he asked Livelsberger. “He said he was going to the Grand Canyon, but I noticed he was mapping to Vegas. He was mapping to the Trump Hotel.”
Livelsberger is alleged to have parked the vehicle in front of the Trump property with a trunk full of explosives and fireworks. Surveillance video at the scene shows the truck exploding into a ball of flames just before 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, and the incident is being investigated as an act of terror.
The owner says that he talked to Livelsberger the day before the incident, and that just a few hours before the explosion, he had received a message that Livelsberger was extending his rental.
Livelsberger also called the Cybertruck owner on New Year’s Eve to ask how to operate the vehicle’s hazard lights, he says. At 3:00 a.m. on January 1, he says he received a message requesting to extend the rental for two more days.
The Cybertruck owner said that Livelsberger was in regular communication throughout the duration of the rental, and asked a lot of questions. In hindsight, his questions now make “more sense.”
“He asked a bunch of questions that now make a lot more sense, like, how the outlet works in the back. My guess is that he must have used that somehow,” the owner recalled. “He was asking me, like, ‘How do I turn it on? Can I turn it on from outside the car?’”
The owner was able to monitor the vehicle’s location throughout the rental, until he was locked out of the system after the explosion. The Cybertruck owner said that Livelsberger went directly to a sporting goods store in the Denver area, potentially to buy items that could be used as explosives. Photographs sent by Livelsberger of the vehicle, and reviewed by The Daily Wire, confirm the stop at the sporting goods store.
After that, he entered the Las Vegas Trump Hotel into the Tesla’s navigation system, the owner says.
The Cybertruck owner says that Livelsberger turned off the vehicle’s live camera feed at some point the night before the attack. He also said that the “Tesla app went dark right around when the bomb went off.” He said Tesla should have all of the footage of Livelsberger on their cloud, which the owner cannot currently access. Tesla didn’t respond to inquiries.
Law enforcement officials said Thursday that Livelsberger shot himself in the head before the explosives were detonated.
Authorities are still searching for a motive. The Associated Press is<a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-hotel-explosion-tesla-cybertruck-5c5a8fd13a50e2bcde46370ae926d427" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reporting</a> that Livelsberger “may have gotten into a fight with his wife about relationship issues shortly before he rented the Tesla and bought the guns.”
Livelsberger served in the U.S. Army Special Forces, otherwise known as Green Berets, at the time of his death. CBS News has<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tower-las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-fire/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reported</a> that he “was serving in Germany but was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident.”
Livelsberger’s uncle, Dean Livelsberger,<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/cybertruck-explosion-suspect-matthew-livelsberger-vegas-b2672940.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> told</a> The Independent that his nephew “loved Trump” and he “was always a very, very patriotic soldier, a patriotic American.”
With Elon Musk teaming up with President Trump in recent months and slated to lead a proposed Department of Government Efficiency, the imagery of a burning Cybertruck parked outside of a Trump property is not being viewed as a coincidence by law enforcement officials
“It’s not lost on us that it’s in front of the Trump building, that it’s a Tesla vehicle,” said Spencer Evans, the Las Vegas FBI agent in charge of the investigation.
The owner of the Cybertruck said that Livelsberger didn’t mention politics, and seemed to love Tesla.
“Tesla and everybody, obviously are asking me all kinds of questions, like ‘Did he say anything about Elon Musk? Did he say anything about Donald Trump? Did he say anything political?’ He didn’t say anything about any of that stuff. He actually seemed kind of like a fan-boy of the car,” he said.
The Denver Gazette<a href="https://denvergazette.com/news/matthew-livelsberger-cybertruck-trump-hotel-las-vegas-attack-explosion-text-messages/article_1ee12c84-c967-11ef-9afb-63dc827cd3c9.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> reported</a> on Thursday that Livelsberger’s ex-girlfriend, Alicia Arritt, says that he texted her Sunday morning praising the Cybertruck and saying that it made him “feel like Batman or halo.”
The same report says Arritt claims his “behavior changed in 2019 after he returned from a tour in the Middle East with a traumatic brain injury.”
The owner said when he first heard of the explosion, he thought it couldn&#8217;t have been Livelsberger, because of how normal their interaction was.
“In my head, I feel like, maybe it wasn’t him,” the owner said. “Maybe someone just took the car. Maybe he bought all that stuff just to go camping. And then somebody just grabbed it and, like, used it.”
Vikki Migoya, a Public Affairs Officer of the FBI’s Denver office, said she was unable to answer specific questions about the “ongoing” investigation.
“FBI Denver; the Denver Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Colorado Springs Police Department today conducted law enforcement activity at a residential address in Colorado Springs,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “FBI Denver personnel and specialized teams were on-site for several hours. This activity is related to the explosion in Las Vegas on Wednesday; due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, no further information will be provided out of Denver.”

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