The terrorist attacks that occurred in New Orleans, LA and Las Vegas, NV, are tragic. How the families cope with such devastating loss is impossible to comprehend. But getting legitimate and accurate information about the deadly attacks may provide some comfort and closure. Forty-eight hours into the investigation one can only say that the status is fluid.
It’s way too early to know if these two terrorists were mentally challenged and on some weird cocktail of psychiatric drugs or if the attacks were something more nefarious. But some information seems so strange and coincidental that one cannot help but wonder whether the attacks go deeper than law enforcement will be willing to share. So, let’s consider the two attacks and what we know two days out.
In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar travelled to New Orleans, driving a Ford F-150 into holiday revelers killing 15 (and himself) and injuring 30 others. That same day, just a few hours later, 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger drove a Tesla Cybertruck to Las Vegas where it exploded in front of the Trump Hotel main entry doors, killing himself and injuring seven. On the surface, it would appear that these two events are unrelated. But there are a few nagging coincidences that law enforcement must address.
First, both men served in the U.S. Army. Din Jabbar served in the Army from 2006 to 2015 and had deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Livelsberger was Army “special operations” active duty and home on leave from Germany and who served in Afghanistan at the same time as Din Jabbar. It is reported that both men also were stationed at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina at the same time.
Hellbound and Down 