FBI and other agencies issue bulletin warning of "copycat or retaliatory" attacks after New Orleans rampage
CBSN
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and other federal agencies have warned about the risk of "copycat or retaliatory attacks" after a man drove a rented pickup truck through a crowd of New Year's revelers on New Orleans' Bourbon Street, killing 14 people before he was shot dead in a firefight with police.
The bulletin, reviewed by CBS News, was released overnight and distributed to law enforcement partners nationwide. It warned that vehicle ramming attacks are "likely to remain attractive for aspiring attackers" because of the relative ease of requiring a vehicle and the "low skill threshold necessary" to carry out such a plot.
The tactic has often been used by ISIS in the past, according to the bulletin. Neither ISIS nor any other terror group has claimed responsibility for the Bourbon Street attack, the bulletin said, but the driver, identified as Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran from from Houston, declared his support for ISIS in a series of videos posted before the attack.
