ISIS: Celebrity erased, but Islamic State keeps giving impression of its existence, connection with New Orleans truck attack

Washington. On the first day of the New Year, a man rammed a speeding truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, USA early in the morning, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens of others. The suspect has been identified as Shamsuddin Jabbar, a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas. According to media reports, the FBI says an Islamic State (ISIS) flag was found in the vehicle and they are investigating the attack as a ‘terrorist act’. I am doing.

According to a CNN report, investigators say the suspect had uploaded videos to social media ‘hours before the attack’, suggesting he was inspired by ISIS and had ‘intent to kill’. According to officials, Jabbar talked about seeing dreams in the video, which inspired him to join ISIS.

After all, what is this ISIS which has been synonymous with terror for the last decade:

About a decade ago, this group attracted the attention of the whole world by capturing large parts of Syria and Iraq. In the areas under its control, it imposed a very strict form of Sharia (Islamic law), inflicted brutal punishment on people and carried out murders. Videos of all these violent acts were made and posted online.

In its early years, ISIS managed to attract thousands of people from all over the world. In 2019, ISIS was driven from its last refuge in Baghuz in eastern Syria. However, its fundamentalist ideology remained. Now, this group has membership in several continents, but its core leadership in Syria is becoming weak.

Most of the attacks carried out in the name of this group take place in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of its branches, called IS-Khorasan Province (ISKP), is active in the Middle East and Europe. At its height, IS carried out large-scale attacks in Europe, including the 2015 attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, which killed 130 people. This group uses social media to incite violence. Nothing is known for sure about the current leaders of the group.

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