NOLA terrorist had bombs with nails, ‘rare’ explosives: pics
New images have been released of the homemade bombs — containing nails and a “very rare explosive compound” — New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar planted along Bourbon Street ahead of his New Year’s Day massacre.
The pictures obtained by ABC News show steel pipes surrounded by rows of nails connected to a radio-controller receiver.
The bombs were meant to cause even more carnage after Jabbar plowed his truck into revelers, killing 14 people and wounding dozens more — but fortunately the explosives failed to detonate before New Orleans police shot Jabbar dead.
“We believe that the transmitter would have functioned, and would have worked, but for New Orleans PD putting him down before he could get access to that transmitter and set off the devices,” Joshua Jackson, special agent in charge for the New Orleans Field Division, told reporters on Sunday.
Other photos show glass jars filled with flammable liquid that officials found in the rental truck also meant to inflict maximum damage, ABC News reported.
The explosives, which were found in a pair of coolers Jabbar left at the scene before the attack, were made with a “very rare explosive compound” which officials said has never been used before in a terrorist attack in the US or Europe.
The US Army vet rigged the explosives with makeshift remote detonators he put together from readily available materials, including electric matches, or “hobby switches.”
He had planned to activate the bombs from a transmitter in his truck, authorities said.
Law enforcement is still investigating how Jabbar was able to manufacture the explosives in his Texas home, where he kept a bomb-making workbench.
The Post’s exclusive photos of Jabbar’s workshop revealed a stash of chemical bottles and a long list of compounds used in bomb-making that were seized by the FBI.
Authorities also discovered bomb-making materials in Jabbar’s Airbnb rental on Mandeville Street — which the terrorist tried to set fire to “to destroy it and other evidence of his crime,” the FBI said.
Jabbar, who was divorced three times and spent more than a decade in the military, plowed into the crowd with an ISIS flag attached to the rental electric truck.
As he drove from his native Houston to New Orleans, he posted Facebook videos proclaiming his support for the terrorist group.
