re: January 1, 2025: Multiple casualties on Bourbon Street after terrorist attack..

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I'm trying to visualize him walking down Bourbon at 1 AM

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He could have parked closer to the other end of Bourbon and walked a short distance to drop them off then got back in the truck and drove to Canal.

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I'm thinking he probably walked up Royal; from his AirBnB...placed his devices (likely in "6-pack sized" coolers) and then walked back to retrieve his truck. If the devices were placed around 1am - There would be plenty of time for him to walk back to where he was staying then drive to where he initiated his attack.

I haven't seen anywhere it stated that random people looked inside the coolers... so I'm thinking he may have had them strapped shut and somehow tied or chained to a post or other object and others were seen trying to snag them.


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On reconsideration - probably just dropped coolers off in piles of trash or in a trash can. Thank you to the fellow posters providing some logic.

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quote:So FBI says no one else involved.

This stinks of a cover-up. Walking back the "others were involved" statement should send up red flags to everyone. Kennedy's comments yesterday add fuel to that fire. But why the cover-up?

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Seems like it is kinda vague how to gauge “others being involved.”
Pure lone wolf, no contact with anyone else leading up to the attack.
Some contact with others for planning, etc before the attack.
Direct Involvement of others in carrying out the attack, like an active cell type scenario.

Seems unlikely that it would be 100% lone wolf, no others involved at all ever. He had to get some guidance from somewhere.

Maybe LE is referring to lack of any active cell type involvement?

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m trying to visualize him walking down Bourbon at 1 AM when its probably still crowded carrying a cooler. He walked with that at least twice from 10 blocks away? Also, what was the final word on the Decatur IED?

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The idea of planting them after midnight in a cooler seems super strange. Maybe just a smaller soft side bag one or something?

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I'm thinking he may have had them strapped shut and somehow tied or chained to a post or other object and others were seen trying to snag them.

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This seems extremely far fetched given the circumstances


Imagine someone chaining an ice chest to a post on the middle of bourbon street . It would draw all kinds of unwanted attention

Link?

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TheRouxGuru

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Just added an ETA to my previous post.

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So my first thought seeing that image was that he must have planned to drive down between the bombs and then detonate them when the cops showed up. But surely he knew about the construction by the time he placed the bombs, and you would also think that responding officers (those who weren’t already on foot) would arrive via the cross streets.

I wonder if his plan was simply to detonate them once he ran out of road. In other words, maybe he placed them down there because he knew he couldn’t drive all the way down Bourbon.

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Just go to the project Nola Facebook

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Just post the photos.

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If I’m walking through the FQ and see a cooler, I wouldn’t give it a 2nd thought and I wouldn’t think to open it, at least until now. I’ve see plenty of things lying around in the FQ.

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I think a homeless person would open the cooler in a heartbeat thinking "free booze" inside.

those are really the bombs? the one on wheels? he had to expect someone to open it or just grab it and walk away with it being out in the open and not even hidden. that makes no sense

unless he wanted them to be found, someone to freak and tell police which drew attention to that end of Bourbon so he could sneak the truck in the other side while resources were diverted. maybe he was confused why no one was reporting them or freaking out for hours so he just made the move at 3am after being tired of waiting?