Common chemical used in explosives found by FBI in Texas storage locker linked to Bourbon Street terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbarwho was identified by the agency as the person who carried out the New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans.
The storage unit was rented by Jabbar and is located about a mile from his home in the Houston area of Harris County, officials from the FBI’s Houston field office said in a statement.
Bottles of sulfuric acid were discovered Monday in a refrigerator at the unit during an overnight search by the FBI and Harris County Sheriff’s Officeagencies reported.
Sulfuric acid is widely used and commercially available, and can be combined with other chemicals to make explosives.
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The FBI released surveillance photos showing Shamsud-Din Jabbar an hour before he drove the truck down Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1. (Federal Bureau of Investigation via AP)
The discovery was made during a “court-approved law enforcement activity“in the facility.
FBI Houston said there is no threat to the public.
Surveillance photo of an IED refrigerator near Bourbon and Orleans streets in New Orleans (FBI)
Investigators search a rental home used by Shamsud-Din Jabbar in New Orleans on Jan. 2. (Kat Ramirez for Fox News Digital)
FBI officials said Jabbar left behind two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in New Orleans which did not detonate.
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Authorities also confirmed that Jabbar left bomb-making materials at his Airbnb rental in New Orleans before the attack.
“They said they found bomb-making material in the yellow house and they wanted the bomb squad to look at it,” Bob Koenig, a neighbor, told FOX 8 New Orleans.
Police officers stand near where a vehicle plowed into a crowd at Canal and Bourbon streets in New Orleans on January 1. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
After Jabbar, a 42-year-old American citizen from Texas, drove his Ford pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street around 3:15 a.m. local time on New Year’s Day, the FBI began investigating the matter as a “terrorist act”.
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After driving his rented vehicle into a crowd of revelers, Jabbar got out of the truck and fired at law enforcement, who returned fire. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the office.
An ISIS flag, weapons and an IED were found in the vehicle, the FBI said.
