New Orleans attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, had a bomb-making station in his Texas home and a page of the Quran open to a passage that read, "they fight in Allah's cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding," reports the New York Post.
Jabbar, 42, drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers on Bourbon Street early New Year's Day, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.
He was killed while exchanging fire with police after ramming the truck through the crowd.
Jabbar, a Texas-born U.S. citizen and Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, also posted a series of videos on Facebook in the hours and minutes leading up to the attack, Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, said at a news conference Thursday.
Investigators confirmed he was ideologically associated with the terrorist group ISIS.
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