A senior FBI agent who told the public and the media that the attack in New Orleans was “not a terrorist event” has been moved, Fox News has learned.
Fox News has learned from several sources that FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan has been briefly moved after her first press conference, where she said, “This is not a terrorist event.”
Terror was the word.
The FBI released a statement after the first news conference that used the word “terrorism.” There was also the word “terrorism” used by Attorney General Merrick Garland and President Biden.
Duncan is still working for the FBI, but no other information was given about her new job.
The FBI wouldn’t say anything.
Police say that 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar had an ISIS flag in his truck when he drove it into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year on Bourbon Street, killing 14 and hurting many more. After driving through the crowd, he got out of his truck and started shooting at police officers. They shot him back and killed him.
Jabbar was declared dead at the scene of the crime.
The FBI said Jabbar bought two coolers that he later used to hide IEDs on Bourbon Street. They also said that on December 31, Jabbar drove from Houston to New Orleans to carry out his plan.
Duncan told the press at a news conference hours after the chaos on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day that the attack had nothing to do with terrorism.
“We will be in charge of the investigation into this event from now on.” “This is not an act of terrorism,” Duncan told the press.
That same day, though, the mayor of New Orleans told the press and the public that the city had, in fact, been attacked by terrorists.
Know that there was a terrorist attack in the city of New Orleans. “Everything is still being looked into,” said Mayor LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat who has been in office since 2018.
Duncan also told the press in later events that the attack is being looked into as a terrorist attack.
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