New Orleans terror attack raises questions: Letters to the Editor
The Issue: The terrorist attack in New Orleans on New Years Day, killing 15 people.
On the early morning of Jan. 1, 2025 a lone-wolf terrorist, inspired by ISIS, rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.
Shamsud-Din Jabbar also planted two improvised explosive devices (“Terror trucker kills 15 in NOLA,” Jan. 2).
People do not want to live in fear; this evil must be stamped out — not treated with kid gloves.
This type of attack can happen in any city: A premeditated attack, well-planned to take lives, to cause chaos.
Now is the time to be more vigilant.
It may be just be a single attack, or perhaps more will come.
Who knows how many terrorists are in the United States.
The consequences should be severe for those caught planning or carrying out terrorist attacks.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
Our federal government and the FBI are really sharp.
They investigated, and in under 48 hours, determined that Shamsud-Din Jabbar acted alone.
Is it really possible that they fully scrutinized, analyzed and examined the catastrophe in that short period of time?
Nevertheless, their press departments contacted all the TV stations and news outlets and advised them that absolutely no one else was involved.
We have heard this story too many times before.
J. Staskewicz
Southampton, NJ
The FBI claims that this act of terror was a one-person job.
This is a very faulty and incomplete conclusion.
The FBI must investigate to ascertain if there is a chain that brought this man to commit this deadly act.
Did someone indoctrinate him?
Did someone manipulate him to kill at least 15 Americans?
The FBI must investigate the mosque in which he was converted.
It must find the chain that led to this atrocity and hold everyone involved to account.
Antin Loew
Manhattan
FBI Assistant Special Agent Alethea Duncan’s initial statement that the murder of 15 people by Jabbar was not terrorism demonstrates the dangerous myopia of the entire Biden-Harris administration.
Until Duncan and the hundreds of similar FBI agents are fired by incoming President Donald Trump, the slaughter of innocent Americans will only continue.
Richard Sherman
Margate, Fla.
New Orleans Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick stated her department had a plan for protecting New Years revelers on Bourbon Street “but the terrorist defeated it.”
Who was the genius that came up with the plan that consisted of one police vehicle blocking the entire roadway as well as the sidewalks, leaving thousands of innocent people unprotected?
When will our law enforcement start to realize the danger American citizens are subjected to everywhere and every day?
It is not just the threat of foreign terrorists, thanks to President Biden’s border policy, but domestic terrorists as well.
What if more assailants had joined the attack?
It could have been much worse.
Don Whitman
Cross River
In 2017, a terrorist rented a truck and drove down a bike path in New York City, killing eight citizens and tourists in his path.
When asked at the press conference regarding the terrorist attack in New Orleans why the sidewalk, an obvious breach point to Bourbon Street by the truck, wasn’t secured, Gov. Jeff Landry essentially responded that the question was hindsight speculation.
Really?
Paul Kamenar
Chevy Chase, Md.
Another terrorist attack on US soil has raised a few questions.
Why did the suspect have access to Bourbon Street?
Was he on the FBI’s radar?
Did he have accomplices?
Sugar Bowl officials made the right call in postponing game.
However, the Wednesday afternoon press conference from New Orleans resembled a gong show with what seemed like more politicians present than media.
God Bless the victims and their families.
Matt Engel
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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