Happy New Year! In two unrelated incidents:
- In New Orleans, louisiana, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a former United states Army Staff Sergeant and Islamist terrorist sympathizer, drives his rented Ford F-150 Lightning pick-up truck into a crowd of New Years revelers killing 14 U.s. subject/enemy/citizens.
- In Paradise, (Federal enclave of) Nevada, guilt over his participation in foreign wars leads U.s. Army Master Sergeant Matthew A. Livelsberger (private mercenary), of the Tenth Special Forces Group, to detonate his rented Tesla Cybertruck, outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas.
[added 12/27/2025] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.
Subsequent Events:
References:
Military extremism: New Orleans and Las Vegas attacks raise concerns
thehill.com/policy/defense/5064459-military-extremism-new-orleans-las-vegas-attacks/
Suspect in Las Vegas Cybertruck Bombing Was US Army Green Beret – News From Antiwar.com
news.antiwar.com/2025/01/02/suspect-in-las-vegas-cybertruck-bombing-was-us-army-green-beret/
The soldier who died in Cybertruck explosion wrote it was intended as a ‘wakeup call’ : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/03/nx-s1-5247805/las-vegas-cybertruck-explosion-note
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