FBI launches probe into New Orleans attacker's visits to Egypt, Canada
India TodayThe FBI is looking into past visits to Egypt and Canada by the suspect in the New Year's Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people after a truck was rammed into a crowd of revelers, an FBI official told reporters on Sunday. A few days later he flew to Ontario, Canada, on July 10 and returned to the US on July 13 of 2023," Lyonel Myrthil, FBI special agent in charge of the New Orleans field office, said at a press briefing. The FBI also said Jabbar made at least two trips to New Orleans in the months prior to the attack, one in October and the other in November. The suspect stayed in a rental home in New Orleans during that time, the FBI said, adding he recorded videos with Meta glasses travelling through the French Quarter, the neighbourhood in New Orleans where the attack occurred on Bourbon Street.