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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
- 0:07Speaker 2: Metaglasses, a car sharing app newly discovered overlapping stints at
- 0:14Speaker 2: Fort Bragg now Fort Liberty. An evil isis flag, one
- 0:19Speaker 2: dead being Dad and one elite former Green Beret, all
- 0:24Speaker 2: part of two deadly attacks here in the US. Are
- 0:28Speaker 2: they connected at this hour? The FEDS on the hunt
- 0:32Speaker 2: for potential accomplices. I'm Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories.
- 0:36Speaker 2: Thank you for being with US authorities. Investigator potential link
- 0:41Speaker 2: between two suspected terror attacks on you Year's Day in
- 0:45Speaker 2: New Orleans and Las Vegas? Are the two attacks connected
- 0:53Speaker 2: at this hour?
- 0:54Speaker 1: We are learning there is an overlap of the.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Two attackers at Fort Bragg now Fort Liberty. How did
- 1:04Speaker 2: nobody know that both served in the US Armies, both
- 1:09Speaker 2: deployed to Afghanistan, both stationed.
- 1:12Speaker 1: At Bragg aka Liberty.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Explosives found at both crime scenes, rental cars both from
- 1:20Speaker 2: the Touro car sharing app, and the attacks were just
- 1:24Speaker 2: a few hours apart.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Let's start with Vegas.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Listen at eight forty am Las Vegas time, we received
- 1:33Speaker 3: a report of an explosion and a fire at the
- 1:36Speaker 3: Trump Towers, the iconic hotel that you see behind me.
- 1:41Speaker 3: We were told that a twenty twenty four cyber truck
- 1:44Speaker 3: pulled up to the front of the hotel, and in fact,
- 1:47Speaker 3: I can tell you it pulled right up to the
- 1:50Speaker 3: glass entrance doors of the hotel. We saw that smoke
- 1:55Speaker 3: start showing from the vehicle and then a large explosion
- 1:59Speaker 3: from the occurs.
- 2:01Speaker 2: That cyber truck managed to contain a lot of the
- 2:05Speaker 2: explosion in front of the Trump Hotel.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Is that a message? How could it not be a message?
- 2:14Speaker 2: Take a look at video we have obtained of the explosion,
- 2:19Speaker 2: and then we learn across the country just hours earlier
- 2:24Speaker 2: to Bourbon Street today.
- 2:26Speaker 4: At approximately three fifteen am Central Standard time, an individual
- 2:30Speaker 4: drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street
- 2:33Speaker 4: in New Orleans, killing at least ten individuals.
- 2:37Speaker 1: And injuring dozens more.
- 2:40Speaker 4: After hitting the crowd, the exit of the vehicle and
- 2:43Speaker 4: fired upon local law enforcement. Law enforcement returned finally, and
- 2:47Speaker 4: the subject was pronounced ceased at the scene. Two law
- 2:51Speaker 4: enforcement officers were injured and transported to local hospitals.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Many are espousing that there is no connection between the two,
- 3:01Speaker 2: even though recently newly discovered evidence shows the two attackers
- 3:07Speaker 2: did have an overlapping stint at Brag.
- 3:10Speaker 1: But what else Take a listen to Sheriff Kevin mcmahel.
- 3:14Speaker 5: There are a number of things in this case that
- 3:17Speaker 5: are similar to the attack in New Orleans. We do
- 3:20Speaker 5: know that our subject here served in the military. In fact,
- 3:24Speaker 5: he's a current member of the military. Both of the
- 3:27Speaker 5: subjects served at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. What we do
- 3:31Speaker 5: know about that is it's a very large military base,
- 3:34Speaker 5: and we have no record that they served in the
- 3:36Speaker 5: same unit or even at the same years at Fort Bragg,
- 3:40Speaker 5: something that continues to remain under investigation. I also know
- 3:44Speaker 5: that they both served in Afghanistan in two thousand and nine.
- 3:49Speaker 5: We don't have any evidence that they were in the
- 3:51Speaker 5: same province in Afghanistan, the same location, or the same unit, again,
- 3:56Speaker 5: something else that remains under investigation. And we also know,
- 4:00Speaker 5: of course that they both used the rental company Turo
- 4:04Speaker 5: to rent their vehicles.
- 4:05Speaker 1: How does this all fit together.
- 4:06Speaker 2: You've got one elite former Green Beret and you've got
- 4:10Speaker 2: one dead beat dad that apparently had been radicalized.
- 4:14Speaker 1: To hateful extremist views. How is this happening under our noses?
- 4:21Speaker 2: And again, are they connected and are their accomplices the
- 4:26Speaker 2: FEDS on the manhunt for accomplices. As we go to
- 4:29Speaker 2: air straight out to an all star panel joining me,
- 4:33Speaker 2: but first to Dave Moyer, former Navy Bomb Disposal Master technician,
- 4:39Speaker 2: program manager Military Contracts K nine Tracker. It goes on
- 4:44Speaker 2: and on. Dave Moyer, thank you for being with us.
- 4:47Speaker 2: I'm concerned. How does one manage to have a mortar?
- 4:53Speaker 2: A mortar morta R in your car? When I think
- 4:59Speaker 2: of a order, I think of a bomb, for instance
- 5:03Speaker 2: in Afghanistan.
- 5:04Speaker 1: How do you get a mortar? What is it? Help me?
- 5:09Speaker 6: Dave, yes, ma'am. And what they're referring to is a
- 5:12Speaker 6: mortar style of firework, which is commonly you can you
- 5:15Speaker 6: can buy it at any of the firework stores as
- 5:18Speaker 6: wherever they are legal for their size, they're usually a
- 5:21Speaker 6: larger firework commonly made in China and some other countries
- 5:26Speaker 6: and then important to the US, what these mortars do
- 5:29Speaker 6: is it's just an exploding device that is loaded inside
- 5:33Speaker 6: a compressed cardboard two which is referred to as a
- 5:35Speaker 6: mortar too. When it initiates, it allows that firework to
- 5:40Speaker 6: launch itself up into the sky and create those those
- 5:42Speaker 6: really big pyrotechnic displays. That everybody likes to see on
- 5:45Speaker 6: the holidays. So these are very common to find out
- 5:50Speaker 6: at any of your firework stores in whichever states that
- 5:53Speaker 6: they these large devices are legal. They're generally quite a
- 5:56Speaker 6: bit larger than your common bottle rockets or m ads
- 5:59Speaker 6: or other little snapbangs that people remember from their childhood too.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Doctor Kendall Crown's joining me now, Chief Medical Examiner, Terran County.
- 6:06Speaker 2: That's Fort Worth, a steam lecturer at the Burnett School
- 6:09Speaker 2: of Medicine at TCU. Doctor Kendall Crowns, in all of
- 6:13Speaker 2: your years, you have managed to obtain and hold on
- 6:16Speaker 2: to mortars.
- 6:18Speaker 1: Could you please show usn't explain.
- 6:19Speaker 7: Certainly as was described. They're usually cardboard tubes or fiberglass
- 6:24Speaker 7: tubes or plastic tubes, but they the mortars are fairly
- 6:28Speaker 7: good size. You put a shell in him that's wrapped
- 6:32Speaker 7: in cardboard that drops in and then fires out, which
- 6:34Speaker 7: shoots the pyrotechnic display they usually have about this similar
- 6:41Speaker 7: gunpowder is a shotgun round and people often will have
- 6:45Speaker 7: accidents with these, and that's why they come into our office.
- 6:48Speaker 7: They usually blow their heads off.
- 6:49Speaker 2: Now I had mentioned that Littlsburger was a former Green Beret.
- 6:54Speaker 1: I say former only because he's dead. He was an active.
- 6:58Speaker 2: Green Beret who happened to be on leave at the
- 7:03Speaker 2: time his attack took place.
- 7:06Speaker 1: Look at this guy.
- 7:07Speaker 2: This looks like a guy you might pass at Target
- 7:10Speaker 2: or Walmart, a guy you might see next to you
- 7:13Speaker 2: at the red light, who knew he had a deadly intent.
- 7:17Speaker 2: You know what, We're sideeshicked with the mortars. Let's take
- 7:21Speaker 2: it from the top. Joining me, Harmonia Rodriguez, chief US
- 7:25Speaker 2: reporter with the Dailymail dot com, Harmania, take a listen
- 7:30Speaker 2: to this.
- 7:31Speaker 8: Hours into the New year, Bourbon Street in New Orleans
- 7:33Speaker 8: is crowded with partiers. At three point fifteen am, a
- 7:37Speaker 8: white electric Ford pickup truck drives around a police squad
- 7:40Speaker 8: car safety barricade, barreling through the revelers. Fourteen or killed,
- 7:44Speaker 8: dozens wounded. After coming to a stop, the driver gets
- 7:48Speaker 8: out of the crash truck, wearing a helmet and ballistic vest.
- 7:51Speaker 8: Armed with an ar ten, he fires at police. Two
- 7:54Speaker 8: officers are wounded.
- 7:56Speaker 2: This guy had been planning this attack for some time,
- 8:02Speaker 2: including previous trips to New Orleans, where he had taste
- 8:07Speaker 2: out with metaglasses while driving a bicycle. You know, very
- 8:15Speaker 2: surreptitiously videoing what would soon be his target. Look at
- 8:24Speaker 2: this just recently, Harmonia, I walk these streets with my children,
- 8:30Speaker 2: going up and down Bourbon Street, really taking it all in.
- 8:35Speaker 2: And Harmonia, we cannot ignore the fact that the two
- 8:39Speaker 2: targets are bastions of US culture. You've got Vegas, and
- 8:45Speaker 2: you've got New Orleans. That's right up there with New
- 8:50Speaker 2: York and Washington, Boston, Atlanta, the big cities that really
- 8:56Speaker 2: across the world anyway typify the US. Yes, let's talk
- 9:01Speaker 2: about the New Orleans attack first.
- 9:05Speaker 1: What do we know, Harmonia, Yeah, Ansy.
- 9:07Speaker 9: As you said, Bourbon Street is one of the most
- 9:11Speaker 9: popular destinations for New Year's Eve around the world. So
- 9:15Speaker 9: now we know that the terrors Jabbar had staked out
- 9:19Speaker 9: this area a while ago, using these meda glasses and
- 9:24Speaker 9: completely going down the same route that he ended up
- 9:27Speaker 9: going down with the truck as he flew this isis flag.
- 9:32Speaker 9: Now we're also learning that in twenty twenty three he
- 9:36Speaker 9: did a trip to Egypt. Now we're still looking into
- 9:40Speaker 9: the details of that trip and whether that could have
- 9:42Speaker 9: had anything to do with his movement into radical Islam
- 9:47Speaker 9: and more specifically isis But yeah, as you said, this
- 9:52Speaker 9: is someone who had served in the military for ten years,
- 9:56Speaker 9: but over the last years, after some contentious divorce and
- 10:00Speaker 9: some financial ruin, he seems to have radicalized and ended
- 10:05Speaker 9: up committing this horrific attack in New Orleans.
- 10:08Speaker 2: It's very hard for me to understand how an American citizen,
- 10:13Speaker 2: with all of the rights and privileges that we have
- 10:16Speaker 2: in the greatest country in the world, could become radicalized
- 10:20Speaker 2: to hate our country. Many people wonder, what are meta glasses,
- 10:26Speaker 2: what does that mean?
- 10:27Speaker 1: And how did that help the attacker listen.
- 10:30Speaker 8: The FBI says Jabbar visited New Orleans in October and
- 10:33Speaker 8: November and spend time riding a bike around the French Quarter.
- 10:37Speaker 8: He was wearing metaglasses recorded video as he rode. Metaglasses
- 10:41Speaker 8: allowed the user to record hands free, but they also
- 10:43Speaker 8: allowed the user to potentially live stream. Jabbar was wearing
- 10:47Speaker 8: a pair of metaglasses during the attack, but live streaming
- 10:51Speaker 8: was not activated. Before the attack, Jabbar was seen in
- 10:54Speaker 8: multiple gun stores in Texas. He also stopped to buy
- 10:56Speaker 8: an ice chest, which was used to build an ID.
- 10:59Speaker 8: The FBI has confiscated three phones in two laptops from
- 11:02Speaker 8: an Airbnb.
- 11:10Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace.
- 11:15Speaker 2: Joining us now in addition to Dave Moyer or doctor
- 11:18Speaker 2: Kennel Crowns Fromanio Rodriguez joining US. Craig Drummond is with
- 11:22Speaker 2: US Vegas attorney and for my purposes, former prosecutor and
- 11:28Speaker 2: US Army veteran out of.
- 11:32Speaker 1: Iraq, Drummond Law Firm. Call the Captain, Craig Drummond, thank
- 11:38Speaker 1: you for being with us. I'd like to hear your
- 11:40Speaker 1: initial thoughts.
- 11:41Speaker 2: Many stating and I'm not ignoring them at all, but
- 11:45Speaker 2: as a former prosecutor of violent felonies, I can't help
- 11:49Speaker 2: but look at the coincidences. Many claim they're not conduct connected,
- 11:53Speaker 2: but I'd like to hear your initial thoughts on what's happened.
- 11:56Speaker 10: While initially there do look like there's a lot of coincidences,
- 12:00Speaker 10: a lot of things in common. As you start to
- 12:03Speaker 10: peel back the layers, it looks like they were in
- 12:05Speaker 10: totally different types of programs.
- 12:07Speaker 11: In the Army.
- 12:08Speaker 10: We have one who's a special operator, a Green Beret,
- 12:11Speaker 10: trained in explosives, trained in military tactics, trained directly in combat.
- 12:16Speaker 10: We have mister Jabbar who's some type of human resource specialist,
- 12:20Speaker 10: really a paperwork type of individual. It would be unlikely
- 12:25Speaker 10: that they would have served directly in a combat role
- 12:27Speaker 10: or in some sort of direct action role in the military.
- 12:30Speaker 10: They could have been in the same unit.
- 12:32Speaker 2: Drummond, I had to get into a tangle with the
- 12:34Speaker 2: US Army Iraqi Vet.
- 12:36Speaker 1: I really don't want to do that. But when you
- 12:39Speaker 1: say it's hard to believe, it's difficult to believe.
- 12:41Speaker 2: It's also hard to believe that an American, a US
- 12:46Speaker 2: born American, would attack their own country.
- 12:51Speaker 1: So how far fetched is it to believe the next step.
- 12:55Speaker 1: I'm not a.
- 12:55Speaker 2: Conspiracy theorist, but it's hard for me to ignore these.
- 13:00Speaker 10: What I find different is mister Jabbar clearly was out
- 13:03Speaker 10: to injure a lot of people. And what we have
- 13:06Speaker 10: with mister Leibelsberger is we have him using fireworks and
- 13:09Speaker 10: we have him using gasoline. And that's interesting because he
- 13:12Speaker 10: would have been trained on much much more lethal components.
- 13:16Speaker 10: He could have easily put that vehicle as a much
- 13:19Speaker 10: larger bomb to do a much larger explosion. And the
- 13:22Speaker 10: reports that I'm reading, at least from a note and
- 13:24Speaker 10: things like that, that he did not intend to injure
- 13:27Speaker 10: lots of people. He intended to make some sort of statement.
- 13:29Speaker 10: So the difference I find is that one.
- 13:31Speaker 2: Person, you mean, blowing up your truck in front of
- 13:34Speaker 2: the Trump Hotel, you don't think that's going to injure people.
- 13:36Speaker 10: I would just proffer this, Nancy, if he wanted to
- 13:39Speaker 10: take out the whole front of that hotel and hundreds
- 13:42Speaker 10: of people, he could have done it. He would have
- 13:44Speaker 10: had the training to do it, as opposed to mister
- 13:47Speaker 10: Jabbar unlikely would have had any training to deal with
- 13:50Speaker 10: high combat explosives.
- 13:52Speaker 11: That's the difference.
- 13:53Speaker 2: Okay, you're hearing Craig Drummond, high profile lawyer, former prosecutor,
- 13:58Speaker 2: US Army that out of Rock and now joining me
- 14:02Speaker 2: now Jonathan Gillham out of Phoenix, former Navy seal, FBI
- 14:07Speaker 2: special agent, Federal Air Marshal cop author of Sheep No More,
- 14:12Speaker 2: The Art of Awareness and Attack Survival, and hosts of
- 14:15Speaker 2: the podcast The Experts.
- 14:17Speaker 1: Jonathan, thank you for being with us.
- 14:19Speaker 2: I hear Craig Drummond, But my knee jert reaction is
- 14:22Speaker 2: to look at this comparison and I'm very very let
- 14:29Speaker 2: me just say, incredulous that they're not connected, especially in
- 14:33Speaker 2: light of the new information newly discovered. They did have
- 14:37Speaker 2: an overlapping stint at BRAG now known as liberty.
- 14:41Speaker 12: Well, once we discover these overlaps in time, what we
- 14:45Speaker 12: need to then look even closer is is there any
- 14:48Speaker 12: overlap in courses that they took, instructors that they had.
- 14:52Speaker 12: Was there any type of overlap of some type of
- 14:56Speaker 12: aspect that would have affected their psyche?
- 14:59Speaker 1: For instance, medication?
- 15:01Speaker 12: Is there medication that they're giving soldiers right now that
- 15:04Speaker 12: could have effect or during that period of time that
- 15:08Speaker 12: could have affected their mentality that opened them up to
- 15:11Speaker 12: this type of psychotic or dimensional behavior? And I think
- 15:16Speaker 12: the medication one is very particular as well. Also, when
- 15:19Speaker 12: they were in Afghanistan, where were they exactly? Were they
- 15:23Speaker 12: close to each other? Was there also anybody specifically in
- 15:26Speaker 12: contact with both of them? I think these are the details.
- 15:30Speaker 12: I agree that there's so many overlapping factors here that
- 15:34Speaker 12: it goes almost beyond just coincidental.
- 15:37Speaker 2: I'm just curious for Jonathan Gilliam, Dave Lawyer and Craig Drummond,
- 15:42Speaker 2: all veterans in armed services for our great country. How
- 15:49Speaker 2: could someone that has served our country, willing to risk
- 15:52Speaker 2: their lives for our country for us, turn on our country.
- 15:58Speaker 2: We know for sure that Jabar had an ISIS flag
- 16:02Speaker 2: and had been indoctrinated. I don't know that there is
- 16:05Speaker 2: anti American sentiment with Libelsburger. I don't know that yet.
- 16:12Speaker 2: But you, gentlemen, have served our country. Do serve our country?
- 16:16Speaker 2: To doctor Chavon Scott joining us, renown psychotherapist and author
- 16:21Speaker 2: of the Minds of mass Killers, Understanding and interrupting the
- 16:25Speaker 2: pathway to violence?
- 16:27Speaker 1: How if you are.
- 16:28Speaker 2: Dyed in the wool pro American, a patriot, how are
- 16:34Speaker 2: you radicalized?
- 16:36Speaker 1: How can you turn against our country?
- 16:39Speaker 13: I think there are usually three components to this sort
- 16:42Speaker 13: of thing. You've got a person who's enraged, and often
- 16:45Speaker 13: the things that they're angry about are their own doing.
- 16:49Speaker 13: You know, they have failed marriages, they've got money problems,
- 16:52Speaker 13: and there's a lot of anger that they're sitting with.
- 16:55Speaker 13: And then they develop this paranoid thinking style so that
- 16:58Speaker 13: they create an enemy out there. There's other people at
- 17:02Speaker 13: fault for the fact that they're angry. And then they
- 17:06Speaker 13: find an extremist ideology which gives them a map. It
- 17:10Speaker 13: gives them a template for who the bad guys are
- 17:12Speaker 13: and who the good guys are, and that can vary
- 17:16Speaker 13: depending on what The ideology that they get into is
- 17:20Speaker 13: there are actually a lot in history, there are a
- 17:22Speaker 13: lot of military people who have become violent extremists.
- 17:26Speaker 1: So it's certainly not unheard of.
- 17:29Speaker 13: It's counterintuitive, I think, to the rest of us who
- 17:32Speaker 13: think logically, but it's unfortunately happens more than we would like.
- 17:39Speaker 1: A soldier detonates a Tesla cyber truck outside the Trump
- 17:43Speaker 1: Hotel in Las Vegas Injuring seven, on you Year's Day.
- 17:47Speaker 2: You've got him with all his marital problems telling a
- 17:50Speaker 2: girlfriend on the phone. He feels like Batman. Really while
- 17:55Speaker 2: just ours apart. A deadly attack in New Orleans than listen.
- 18:00Speaker 14: The FBI releases photos showing Shampstead and Jabbar walking on
- 18:04Speaker 14: Dauphine Street near Governor Nichols Street at two oh three am.
- 18:08Speaker 14: He's captured on surveillance footage placing two improvised explosive devices,
- 18:12Speaker 14: where authorities later found them in the area around Bourbon Street.
- 18:16Speaker 14: Bomb technicians recovered two IEDs in coolers, one from the
- 18:20Speaker 14: cross section of Bourbon and Orleans Street and the second
- 18:24Speaker 14: at intersection two blocks away. A transmitter intended to trigger
- 18:28Speaker 14: the two bombs was found in the cab of the
- 18:31Speaker 14: Ford truck Jabbar was.
- 18:32Speaker 2: Driving IAD improvised explosive device. Who would know how to
- 18:38Speaker 2: make that and even create a trigger that could be
- 18:42Speaker 2: activated remotely? It seems as if history is repeating itself.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Listen.
- 18:48Speaker 8: Four years after a pie bomb was found outside the
- 18:51Speaker 8: Democratic National Committee headquarters in twenty twenty one, the perpetrator
- 18:55Speaker 8: has not been caught, so the FBI is releasing new
- 18:57Speaker 8: video and new information about the suspect planning the pipe bomb.
- 19:01Speaker 8: The gender of the suspect planting one of the bombs
- 19:03Speaker 8: is still unknown, and photos of the hood and amassed
- 19:06Speaker 8: individual released early on in the investigation, but now the
- 19:09Speaker 8: FBI is releasing video as well, announcing the person appears
- 19:13Speaker 8: to be about five feet seven inches tall. Releasing the
- 19:16Speaker 8: video as an effort by the FBI to get people
- 19:18Speaker 8: talking about the unsolved crime and raise awareness.
- 19:21Speaker 2: How does a US citizen become radicalized?
- 19:25Speaker 1: What do we know about Jabbar? Listen?
- 19:29Speaker 15: Shamsu Din Jabbar posted five videos to Facebook explaining how
- 19:33Speaker 15: he recently joined ISIS and how he originally planned to
- 19:36Speaker 15: get his family together for a celebration and kill them,
- 19:39Speaker 15: deciding that would not get the attention he desired. Jabbar
- 19:42Speaker 15: then chased his plan of attack so the media would
- 19:44Speaker 15: focus on the quote war between the believers and disbelievers.
- 19:48Speaker 15: The first video posted at one twenty nine am and
- 19:50Speaker 15: the last one posted at three h two.
- 19:52Speaker 2: Aar straight out to Chief US Investigative report with Dailymail
- 19:57Speaker 2: dot Com Fromanio Rodriguez. What do we know about the videos?
- 20:01Speaker 2: Hearing words like war between believers and disbelievers, it's a
- 20:07Speaker 2: flashback for me when I was in New York the
- 20:10Speaker 2: day of September eleven.
- 20:12Speaker 1: What do you know about the videos?
- 20:14Speaker 9: Yeah, so, the FBI has told us that they recovered
- 20:17Speaker 9: at least five videos that this terrorists had posted to
- 20:21Speaker 9: Facebook right before the attack. As the package mentioned, he
- 20:25Speaker 9: had said in the video that he had pledged alliance
- 20:28Speaker 9: to Isis that he wanted to kill Americans, and then
- 20:32Speaker 9: he went on to say that at first he thought
- 20:35Speaker 9: about just killing his family, but then he was concerned
- 20:38Speaker 9: that the media wouldn't get his message and would focus
- 20:42Speaker 9: on the deaths of his relatives instead of, as he
- 20:46Speaker 9: said in the video, the fight between the believers and
- 20:49Speaker 9: the non believers, so basically, you know, the fight between
- 20:52Speaker 9: Islam and the West. He wanted to make sure that
- 20:55Speaker 9: the public knew that that's why he was doing this.
- 20:57Speaker 2: Okay, Craig Drummond joining me high pro a lawyer out
- 21:00Speaker 2: of Vegas and US Army Iraqi. Vet Craig, I want
- 21:07Speaker 2: to kill my whole family, But then the world.
- 21:10Speaker 1: In the media won't know it's all about. Isis?
- 21:15Speaker 2: I know it sounds crazy, right, but you and I
- 21:17Speaker 2: know the definition, the legal definition of insanity under the
- 21:22Speaker 2: old MacNaughton rule part of our common law. This guy
- 21:27Speaker 2: is not crazy. He's crazy like a fox, if anything. So,
- 21:32Speaker 2: after what you have been through serving in Iraq and more,
- 21:37Speaker 2: how does this happen? How does someone a US born
- 21:42Speaker 2: citizen from Texas become radicalized to hate America.
- 21:47Speaker 10: Well, they're selfish and that's what it really comes down to.
- 21:51Speaker 10: They are extremely selfish. And I don't know what his
- 21:54Speaker 10: message was. His message that he couldn't get by a
- 21:57Speaker 10: quote killing his family or killing his friends. He needed
- 21:59Speaker 10: to go out there to kill innocent people trying to
- 22:02Speaker 10: enjoy a great city on a great day, trying to get.
- 22:05Speaker 11: In the new year.
- 22:06Speaker 10: It's infuriating, and it happens because people choose to put
- 22:11Speaker 10: themselves first. They choose to forget that they once took
- 22:14Speaker 10: an oath to serve our country. They choose to forget
- 22:17Speaker 10: that it's important to live in a community and to
- 22:19Speaker 10: help others and not kill them.
- 22:21Speaker 11: It's infuriating, Nancy.
- 22:22Speaker 10: And I don't know how this individual became radicalized, you know,
- 22:25Speaker 10: potentially on the internet. I don't know why he chose
- 22:28Speaker 10: to put himself over others, but it's very infuriating and saddening,
- 22:32Speaker 10: and it's just it's a.
- 22:34Speaker 1: Tragic, you know.
- 22:35Speaker 2: Dave Moyer joining me in addition to Craig Drummer, Doctor
- 22:39Speaker 2: Scott Jonathan Gillum. Dave, I'm just very confused. It's very
- 22:45Speaker 2: difficult for me to understand. Of course, former Navy bomb
- 22:49Speaker 2: disposal master technicians. I'm going to get to you about
- 22:51Speaker 2: the bombs, but I was trying to understand the mindset
- 22:55Speaker 2: of these two that would destroy American lives. After having
- 22:59Speaker 2: served in the US military, How do you serve and
- 23:04Speaker 2: work with your brothers and sisters in arms and then
- 23:08Speaker 2: turn against your own country. You believe in it so
- 23:11Speaker 2: much you're willing to lose your own life, but then
- 23:14Speaker 2: you completely do it about face.
- 23:16Speaker 6: Well, ma'am, I definitely agree with the gentleman that was
- 23:19Speaker 6: on earlier about how the former Green Beret would absolutely
- 23:23Speaker 6: have the knowledge, training and experience to make that a
- 23:26Speaker 6: far more catastrophic explosion that he did. I really leaned
- 23:30Speaker 6: towards at least it seems to me that was for
- 23:35Speaker 6: a statement. Now, in regards to the New Orleans attack,
- 23:39Speaker 6: I can't help but keep drawing correlations to the twenty
- 23:43Speaker 6: fifteen high RC bonding in San Bernardino County, which I
- 23:47Speaker 6: actually responded to and ran a canine track on, but
- 23:51Speaker 6: that it sounds remarkably similar to that event where a
- 23:54Speaker 6: US citizen that was helping mentally disabled folks at the
- 23:58Speaker 6: Inland Regional Center became reed radicalized via the Internet and
- 24:03Speaker 6: eventually traveled overseas to receive training, and it came back
- 24:07Speaker 6: and planeted IDEs and then unfortunately shot an awful lot
- 24:11Speaker 6: of very innocent people. So I see a lot of
- 24:14Speaker 6: correlations there, and despite the timing, and it really seems
- 24:19Speaker 6: like consequential evidence our coincidence. Sorry, not consequential, but it
- 24:25Speaker 6: seems like an awful lot of coincidences here. That they
- 24:28Speaker 6: both happened within several hours, But the type of bombing
- 24:31Speaker 6: is completely different, or the type of incident is completely different.
- 24:34Speaker 6: With both, there's certainly malice of forethought with the New
- 24:37Speaker 6: Orleans attack, and it seemed much more like a statement
- 24:41Speaker 6: driven incident in Las Vegas.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Joining us now high profile columnist with the Dailymail dot
- 24:49Speaker 2: Com and author of Ask Not the Kennedys and The
- 24:54Speaker 2: Women They Destroyed on Amazon. Now joining me is marine Callahan, Maureen,
- 25:00Speaker 2: thank you for being with us.
- 25:01Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me.
- 25:02Speaker 2: Nancy Louuren, I'd like to hear your initial reaction when
- 25:08Speaker 2: you learn that there had been not just one, but
- 25:12Speaker 2: two deadly attacks on us soil, well, that both.
- 25:16Speaker 16: Were on New Year's Eve, that both were in cities
- 25:20Speaker 16: that are known for everything that Islamic fundamentalism seeks to destroy,
- 25:27Speaker 16: which is hedonism. Fun Joy abandoned. That they both were
- 25:35Speaker 16: car bombs, both suicide bombers. Really well, the New Orleans
- 25:40Speaker 16: attacker rammed into a crowd of people before killing himself.
- 25:44Speaker 16: But those are both tactics deployed now by Islamic fundamentalist
- 25:48Speaker 16: terrorists in cities that have since hardened themselves as targets.
- 25:53Speaker 16: We saw two weeks prior in Germany with that horrific
- 25:56Speaker 16: attack on the Christmas Market.
- 25:59Speaker 1: Officials there used to sort.
- 26:00Speaker 16: Of even entertain the idea that it could have been
- 26:02Speaker 16: related to Islamic fundamentalism, as did the FBI here initially.
- 26:06Speaker 1: And I thought that this.
- 26:08Speaker 16: Is so symptomatic of a larger problem in America, which
- 26:12Speaker 16: goes to the progressive left in Biden having blood on
- 26:17Speaker 16: their hands and refusing to call these things what they are.
- 26:21Speaker 2: You know, Maureen, I try very hard to stay away
- 26:27Speaker 2: from politics, because in my mind, all politicians are swimming
- 26:32Speaker 2: in a cesspool, and.
- 26:33Speaker 1: I don't want to be in that.
- 26:35Speaker 2: I try to keep my eye on the prize of
- 26:38Speaker 2: solving unsolved homicides, finding missing people, especially children. Here, I
- 26:43Speaker 2: think I'd like to approach a bigger picture that it's
- 26:50Speaker 2: not just one party or the other. It's a lax attitude.
- 26:55Speaker 2: We don't want to see what is right in front
- 26:58Speaker 2: of us. How can we say that at least one
- 27:01Speaker 2: of these attacks is not ISIS.
- 27:02Speaker 1: Related when there's an ISIS flag. I live through nine
- 27:08Speaker 1: to one one.
- 27:08Speaker 2: I was in New York when the towers fell, and
- 27:12Speaker 2: I'm shocked at how we want so desperately to avoid connecting.
- 27:18Speaker 1: Any of this to ISIS.
- 27:20Speaker 2: And when you said, when you made the point, which
- 27:23Speaker 2: I thought of it, I didn't hadn't heard it verbalized
- 27:26Speaker 2: so succinctly as you just did at Maureen. I have
- 27:31Speaker 2: read about and studied Islamic fundamentalness that have come to
- 27:35Speaker 2: our country.
- 27:36Speaker 1: And when they set.
- 27:37Speaker 2: Foot and walk off the plane at the airport, they
- 27:40Speaker 2: look around and they are disgusted.
- 27:43Speaker 1: They're disgusted by.
- 27:45Speaker 2: Women wearing a pair of shorts, or women with their
- 27:48Speaker 2: faces not covered, not wearing a burka, of the consumerism
- 27:54Speaker 2: in the US.
- 27:55Speaker 1: They hate us and everything we and for.
- 28:01Speaker 2: And I might say, we stand for consumerism, we stand
- 28:04Speaker 2: for free will.
- 28:06Speaker 1: That's what we have that they don't have.
- 28:09Speaker 2: And when you point it out, Morine, Vegas and New
- 28:13Speaker 2: Orleans as the focal points of the attacks, that really
- 28:18Speaker 2: reverberates in my mind.
- 28:20Speaker 1: Moraine, Thank you, Nancy.
- 28:21Speaker 16: Now, I just want to clarify, as we have since learned,
- 28:23Speaker 16: the Vegas bombers seems to have been activated by personal issues.
- 28:29Speaker 1: He does not seem to have any.
- 28:30Speaker 17: Ties whatsoever to Islamic fundamentalism, yet he shows tactics that
- 28:35Speaker 17: resemble it. And the iconography is unmistakable, and Elon must
- 28:40Speaker 17: be designed outside of a Trump hotel in Vegas. I
- 28:46Speaker 17: think that these things are telling us something about a
- 28:51Speaker 17: laxity in American culture. And I also link it to
- 28:55Speaker 17: the American response, both policy wise, the tone set by
- 29:00Speaker 17: the Biden administration and on our Ivy League campuses in
- 29:04Speaker 17: major American cities such as New York, where you saw
- 29:07Speaker 17: an overwhelming outpouring of sympathy for Gossens and for Palestine
- 29:14Speaker 17: and for Hamas, for Hamas, not for Israel. These things
- 29:20Speaker 17: are linked.
- 29:21Speaker 16: I saw on the Sunday Shows yesterday, I faced the
- 29:23Speaker 16: Nation Representative Jim Himes, Democrat, talking with Margaret Brennan. You know,
- 29:29Speaker 16: they're scratching their heads, going what's causing this? What caused
- 29:33Speaker 16: the New Orleans attacks? Like what causes these? They're now
- 29:37Speaker 16: framed as lone wolf.
- 29:39Speaker 1: Attacks, but they are not.
- 29:40Speaker 18: These ideas are viral, They are a virus. We don't
- 29:45Speaker 18: know this guy's extent of involvement with ISIS, but he
- 29:49Speaker 18: left his Kuran open to a significant passage that talked
- 29:54Speaker 18: about slaughter.
- 29:56Speaker 1: So when you couple that too.
- 29:58Speaker 16: With the laxity of the and we don't know how
- 30:01Speaker 16: many got aways came through. There are countries such as
- 30:05Speaker 16: China sending single military age males to cross our southern border.
- 30:11Speaker 1: This is a laxity.
- 30:13Speaker 16: On the whole that really needs to be addressed, because
- 30:16Speaker 16: it really is our greatest threat from within.
- 30:18Speaker 1: Right now crime Stores with Nancy Grace.
- 30:30Speaker 8: The ATF believes shamsud Den Jabbar attempted to hide evidence
- 30:35Speaker 8: by burning down the airbnb he rented by setting a
- 30:37Speaker 8: small fire in a hallway with accelerants placed nearby. The
- 30:41Speaker 8: fire was reported at five to eighteen am, but two
- 30:43Speaker 8: hours after Jabbar was killed, suggesting a timing device or
- 30:47Speaker 8: pressure cooker may have been used to delay the start
- 30:50Speaker 8: of the blaze. However, the flames burned out before firefighters arrived,
- 30:54Speaker 8: and authorities found bomb making materials in the home.
- 30:57Speaker 2: Wow, so he knows how to effect a timer, a
- 31:01Speaker 2: booby trapped device and tries to destroy all the evidence.
- 31:05Speaker 1: To Jonathan Gillham, joining US.
- 31:07Speaker 2: Former Navy Seal, FBI special Agent Herma Marshall and author
- 31:12Speaker 2: of Sheep and No More, The Art of Awareness and
- 31:15Speaker 2: Attacks Survival podcast The Experts, Jonathan, this doesn't sound like
- 31:21Speaker 2: an amateur. Earlier, one of our guests stated that he
- 31:24Speaker 2: was basically a paper pusher.
- 31:26Speaker 1: When I think a paper pusher, I.
- 31:27Speaker 2: Don't think of a guy that knows how to create,
- 31:31Speaker 2: improvise explosion devices and set timers and tries to destroy
- 31:36Speaker 2: evidence and cases out the bomb location.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Right now, the hunt is for potential accomplices. What are
- 31:45Speaker 1: they talking about what accomplices?
- 31:47Speaker 12: Well, it would be I want to say one thing
- 31:49Speaker 12: about him being a paper pusher. Look, Timothy McVeigh was
- 31:53Speaker 12: not a bomb builder in the military, but look what
- 31:55Speaker 12: he did. So this individual, we can't mistake what he
- 31:59Speaker 12: did in then military, Harry versus what he did in
- 32:01Speaker 12: his attack. So what we do know is that he
- 32:04Speaker 12: wasn't trained to do these types of explosives, learn how
- 32:09Speaker 12: to manufacture them use a remote device. So I would
- 32:12Speaker 12: think if they're saying they're looking for other accomplices, they're
- 32:16Speaker 12: most likely looking for one or two things. People who
- 32:19Speaker 12: helped him learn how to build this, who share that
- 32:23Speaker 12: information with him, whether that be overseas or in country,
- 32:26Speaker 12: which is even more scary, or individuals who actually built
- 32:30Speaker 12: the bombs for him and he rolled them up there
- 32:34Speaker 12: and then failed to detonate them. So it's one of
- 32:38Speaker 12: the others. But it really still again, it bothers me
- 32:41Speaker 12: so much because they go and make these sound bites
- 32:44Speaker 12: saying that he acted alone. But yet they say now
- 32:49Speaker 12: that there's potential again, potential other people that may be involved,
- 32:53Speaker 12: accomplices that may be involved. This is a disturbing way
- 32:57Speaker 12: for the FBI to put out information or the locals
- 33:01Speaker 12: three days into an investigation. It just these sound bites
- 33:05Speaker 12: are for their benefit, not for anything else.
- 33:07Speaker 2: Okay, what do you mean by that these soundbites are
- 33:10Speaker 2: for their benefits and nothing else.
- 33:12Speaker 12: Well, it would be like a defense attorney or someone
- 33:16Speaker 12: coming out and making a sound bite to help their case.
- 33:19Speaker 12: I think when it comes to the failures that the
- 33:22Speaker 12: city had, they're going to make soundbites saying that they're
- 33:25Speaker 12: safe in New Orleans. They're going to say that, or
- 33:29Speaker 12: the FBI is going to come out and say that
- 33:30Speaker 12: we don't know, we don't think that there's anybody else
- 33:33Speaker 12: involved right now that we know of. Why even say
- 33:36Speaker 12: those things? It doesn't do anything except calm people down
- 33:40Speaker 12: and make it look like the FBI is in control
- 33:42Speaker 12: in their investigation. And quite frankly, I don't think people
- 33:45Speaker 12: really care about the extent of what they know. It's
- 33:49Speaker 12: just are they figuring it out? And I think when
- 33:52Speaker 12: we hear sound bites like that, and then we see
- 33:55Speaker 12: things like this where they say they're still looking for accomplices.
- 33:59Speaker 12: It is a It's a set of verbiage and sound
- 34:04Speaker 12: bites that don't add up, and it causes confusion for
- 34:07Speaker 12: people who perhaps would have called in and said, Hey,
- 34:10Speaker 12: I think I know something, but then they heard something
- 34:13Speaker 12: on television say there was nobody else involved, so they
- 34:15Speaker 12: just don't.
- 34:16Speaker 11: They don't call in.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Craig Drummond that out of you rock former prosecutor now
- 34:22Speaker 2: high profile lawyer.
- 34:24Speaker 1: Craig He's right.
- 34:26Speaker 2: One thing that my boss, the elected district attorney who
- 34:30Speaker 2: was like a grandfather to me, drill into us is
- 34:34Speaker 2: don't speak. Don't speak to the press, don't care if
- 34:38Speaker 2: they're on the front steps of the courthouse when.
- 34:40Speaker 1: You leave or enter.
- 34:42Speaker 2: Don't speak, don't taint your case, don't put anything out
- 34:46Speaker 2: there until you know everything. So he lawyer really has
- 34:52Speaker 2: a point. Like you think that Jabbar did this all
- 34:56Speaker 2: on his own. I tend to think that Libelsberger.
- 34:58Speaker 1: Did do it all on his own.
- 35:01Speaker 2: However, Jabbar whole different can of worms. He the paper
- 35:07Speaker 2: pusher like McVeigh. He was right about that too. Suddenly
- 35:11Speaker 2: figures out how to make IEDs, make timers, destroy evidence,
- 35:16Speaker 2: who radicalized him? Where do you get the idea to
- 35:19Speaker 2: create bombs. I find it really hard to believe he
- 35:23Speaker 2: acted Alan.
- 35:24Speaker 11: I completely concur with your assessment, Nancy.
- 35:26Speaker 10: I mean, we have Libelsburger who everything he did would
- 35:29Speaker 10: have been within his wheelhouse.
- 35:30Speaker 11: It would have been within his training and his skill set.
- 35:34Speaker 10: We have this mister Jabbar who has these bombs that
- 35:37Speaker 10: I agree with the other individual who said he wouldn't
- 35:40Speaker 10: have been trained in that in the military. He could
- 35:42Speaker 10: have learned it on the internet. I completely concur. But
- 35:44Speaker 10: he also might have had an accomplice.
- 35:46Speaker 11: I do not know.
- 35:47Speaker 10: I think there are a lot more questions related to
- 35:49Speaker 10: mister Jabbar, these remote bombs that apparently weren't detonated, the
- 35:54Speaker 10: Airbnb that apparently he wasn't very successful at burning down.
- 35:57Speaker 11: But there are a lot of questions about that.
- 35:59Speaker 10: And to say that he acted alone at this point,
- 36:02Speaker 10: I think it might be a little premature. I don't
- 36:04Speaker 10: know what law enforcement knows, but I would agree it's
- 36:06Speaker 10: a little premature. But we have things done outside of
- 36:09Speaker 10: his known skill set.
- 36:10Speaker 2: Two military vets. What do they have in common? Crumbling marriages,
- 36:18Speaker 2: their lives and disarray Straight out to dailymail dot COM's
- 36:22Speaker 2: chief investigative reporter, Hermani and Rodriguez tell me about their
- 36:26Speaker 2: lives apart from any anti American sentiment.
- 36:30Speaker 1: That's right.
- 36:30Speaker 9: Aside from their military experience, perhaps the most important thing
- 36:35Speaker 9: that these two men had in common was that their
- 36:37Speaker 9: personal lives had spiraled in the years before their attacks.
- 36:43Speaker 9: The Green Beret had actually just had a baby over
- 36:47Speaker 9: the summer with his wife, But we now know that
- 36:51Speaker 9: some time before he took off from Colorado to Vegas,
- 36:55Speaker 9: he had some type of fight with his wife, who
- 36:58Speaker 9: hadn't heard from him for days before this attack. We
- 37:02Speaker 9: also know that he was dealing with some PTSD. An
- 37:06Speaker 9: ex girlfriend said that he contacted her days before the attack,
- 37:09Speaker 9: showing off the tesla. Now, Jabbar, on his part, had
- 37:14Speaker 9: even more of a troubled past relationship life.
- 37:17Speaker 1: He had two divorces.
- 37:19Speaker 9: The last one appears to have been particularly difficult. The
- 37:23Speaker 9: ex wife got a restraining order against him, and as
- 37:27Speaker 9: part of the divorce proceedings, Jabbar had said that he
- 37:31Speaker 9: could not pay for the house that he shared with
- 37:34Speaker 9: his ex wife, that his real estate business had crumbled,
- 37:39Speaker 9: and that he basically was bankrupt. Now this was just
- 37:43Speaker 9: a few years before the attack that made him nationally famous.
- 37:47Speaker 1: Yeah, in fact, he's a deadbeat dad.
- 37:50Speaker 2: The wife from a wife had to go to court
- 37:54Speaker 2: to get him to pay his child's support. And then
- 37:57Speaker 2: you've got Libelsberger, who's marriage is crumbling even after he's
- 38:03Speaker 2: just had a baby with his wife. But curious to
- 38:07Speaker 2: doctor Chavon Scott joining a psychotherapist author of the Minds
- 38:11Speaker 2: of mass Killers, Doctor Scott in addition to his crumbling marriage,
- 38:17Speaker 2: Littelsberger said that this was a quote wake up call
- 38:22Speaker 2: for America.
- 38:23Speaker 1: What does that mean? Yeah?
- 38:24Speaker 13: Yeah, what does it mean? It shows distorted thinking that's
- 38:28Speaker 13: going on. And was he involved in a particular political
- 38:32Speaker 13: ideology that we're not aware of? Where he was looking
- 38:37Speaker 13: for the enemy. And usually guys like this, they have
- 38:42Speaker 13: this bizarre belief that there's this external enemy that is
- 38:48Speaker 13: the result of why they're having all the problems that
- 38:52Speaker 13: they're having in their lives. And so it's my guess
- 38:55Speaker 13: that he was reading material, Was he active in groups
- 38:58Speaker 13: online where there was an enemy? Was it part of
- 39:01Speaker 13: our own political system? From the things I've read about him,
- 39:05Speaker 13: he had complaints about our own government and our own
- 39:08Speaker 13: political system. And so it's this interesting phenomenon where their
- 39:12Speaker 13: personal problems and their rage is a result of themselves.
- 39:18Speaker 13: It's their own view of the world, it's their own inadequacy.
- 39:22Speaker 13: But rather than taking responsibility for that, they're putting the
- 39:26Speaker 13: responsibility externally, and that's why they act out in violence.
- 39:30Speaker 13: So there's nothing as dangerous as a holy warrior, you know,
- 39:33Speaker 13: somebody who has chosen an extremist set of beliefs because
- 39:38Speaker 13: they're really angry.
- 39:39Speaker 1: You know.
- 39:40Speaker 2: Doctor Kendall Crown's joining us in addition to doctor cheven Scott,
- 39:45Speaker 2: chief medical exammer Terrett County. I walk up in the
- 39:48Speaker 2: middle of the night thinking about family and relatives of
- 39:53Speaker 2: all the victims. Now did that We're just walking the street,
- 39:58Speaker 2: enjoying themselves in the way orlands, and suddenly you get
- 40:02Speaker 2: the call your child is dead, just out of the blue,
- 40:11Speaker 2: Doctor Crowns, What did these victims endure? Did they realize
- 40:17Speaker 2: what had happened?
- 40:19Speaker 7: So certainly they were all hit by a vehicle. So
- 40:21Speaker 7: when the motor vehicle comes crashing through the crowd, you'll
- 40:24Speaker 7: be seeing the car coming at you. And sometimes when
- 40:29Speaker 7: you're hit by a car at a high rate of speed,
- 40:31Speaker 7: it'll hit you fast enough cause enough significant injuries like
- 40:34Speaker 7: a cervical spine fracture or a skull fracture that you'll
- 40:38Speaker 7: be rendered unconscious immediately. But oftentimes what happens is you
- 40:43Speaker 7: get crushing injuries to the chest, rib fractures, you get
- 40:47Speaker 7: splinic or liver lacerations, and you bleed internally, which takes
- 40:52Speaker 7: you a while to die. Also, you'll see fractures of
- 40:55Speaker 7: the extremities or the legs or the arms as well.
- 40:58Speaker 7: So if you aren't hitting the head, you're going to
- 41:01Speaker 7: have a time period where you were hit by a
- 41:03Speaker 7: car and then you're laying there bleeding internally or bleeding
- 41:06Speaker 7: out onto the sidewalk and unable to do anything because
- 41:10Speaker 7: you're all you're all broken and in pain. So the
- 41:14Speaker 7: individuals that got hit, odds are they did suffer quite
- 41:18Speaker 7: a while before they passed away.
- 41:20Speaker 2: Our prayers with the victims' families and the search for answers.
- 41:28Speaker 1: Nancy Grace signing off Goodbye friend.