The suspected accomplices of the New Orleans terrorists were partygoers looking for booze
The four people the FBI believed were in cahoots with the New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar didn’t help him plant bombs around the French Quarter… they were partygoers looking for their next drink.
Federal sources tell TMZ … the confusion began when investigators watched Bourbon Street surveillance video and saw three men and a woman peering into two coolers where Jabbar had placed homemade bombs … leading to theories that Jabbar was not alone acted. .
Our sources say investigators ultimately determined that these people weren’t terrorists at all… but were partiers checking the coolers to see if they contained booze.
When they didn’t find what they were looking for, they walked away and left the IEDs alone. The FBI now believes these people had no idea they were staring at explosives, possibly because they were drunk.
Our sources also say that the FBI is now in possession of several of Jabbar’s mobile devices… and the hope is that these devices can shed light on his ISIS radicalization.
Our sources say the FBI has already established a timeline… Jabbar went to a gun store in Houston on December 31, but he didn’t buy anything, and he also spent part of his New Year’s Eve at a shooting range.
TMZ.com
Jabbar rented the Ford pickup he used in the attack and got an Airbnb in New Orleans on NYE… he planned to detonate the bombs with a trigger device.
