Where Did Jabbar Get the ‘Very Rare’ Explosive for His IED’s, and Where Did He Learn How to Use It?

The FBI is still insisting that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the New Orleans terrorist who killed 14 people with his truck early New Year’s Day on Bourbon Street, acted alone. So far, they say they’ve been unable to unearth evidence that points to any fellow conspirators.

They haven’t entirely closed the door on a conspiracy. They just haven’t found any evidence suggesting it.

However, Ed Morrissey, at our sister site, Hot Air, uses a little deductive reasoning to question that conclusion by the feds. Ed points to an article by NBC News that contains some new information about the kind of explosive Jabbar used to construct the homemade IEDs that he placed near the site of his attack on Bourbon Street.

Jabbar used a very rare explosive compound in the IEDs, according to law enforcement sources. What makes that suggestive of a conspiracy of some kind is that the explosives have never been used in the U.S., and Jabbar never demonstrated the ability to construct an explosive device using these or any other materials. He was in human resources while in the Army, and would have had no cause to learn how to build an IED with such an exotic explosive.

NBC News:

Authorities are investigating how Jabbar acquired the knowledge to create this homemade explosive, the officials said.

Those officials say that the explosive has never been used in a U.S. terrorist attack or incident, nor in any European terrorist attack. A key question for investigators is how Jabbar learned about the compound and how he managed to produce it. […]

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