The New Orleans attack and Las Vegas Tesla explosion are examples of the US military’s violent extremism problem
- Written by Mia Martin Hobbs, Research Fellow, Deakin University
On New Year’s Day, a truck rammed into a crowd in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more. The suspect, identified as 42-year-old Shamsud Din Jabbar, a United States citizen and Army veteran, was apprehended and killed on the scene of the attack, after firing on law enforcement. The night before, he recorded a video...





