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Stopping attacks requires a “see something, say something” mentality. (In Canada that would result in hate crime charges)

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran from Houston, plowed his rented truck through revelers on New Orleans’s Bourbon Street. Then he jumped out and initiated the shootout that ended his life, wounding two police officers. Police found an ISIS flag, weapons, and an improvised explosive device in Jabbar’s pick-up truck, along with two more IEDs in the area. Jabbar’s attack left at least 14 dead and dozens more hurt.

Let’s all give a big shout-out to the “Globalize the intifada” crowd. You got your way! Congratulations. Hope it feels good.

For years, citizens of Israel have had maniac jihadists driving at them and trying to mow them down on their streets. But this got only cheers from the dolts on US college campuses and New York street protesters.

Then, just before Christmas, Germany again got a taste of this “intifada.” That was when a Saudi immigrant decided to plow a vehicle through a previously happy Christmas market. He killed five people and injured almost 200.

It was 2016 and the Islamic State jihadist group was on the rise, seizing vast swathes of the Middle East. Not content with its territorial gains, it wanted to sow terror across the western world.

The best way to do this, its leaders believed, was to radicalise as many followers in the West as they could, while suggesting methods of attack that did not demand much in the way of skill, training or financing.

UPDATED 1530 EST: Not only can we confirm that this was definitely Islamic terrorism, but we know that this was meant to be a devastating terror attack involving several actors and intended to cause hundreds of deaths throughout the French Quarter:

Guns and pipe bombs were also found in the vehicle, according to a Louisiana State Police intelligence bulletin obtained by The Associated Press. The devices, which were concealed within coolers, were wired for remote detonation, the bulletin said, and a corresponding remote control was discovered inside the vehicle.

The FBI said other potential explosive devices were also located in the French Quarter. According to the intelligence bulletin, surveillance footage captured three men and a woman placing one of multiple improvised explosive devices.

More details of the terrorist attack in New Orleans have emerged, including the fact that the local FBI team finally admitted it was terrorism. The deceased perp has been identified as a US-born citizen named Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who resided in Houston before dying in the attack. The black flag on the truck did turn out to be an ISIS flag, and at least one active IED has been found and detonated.