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The Daily Brief: Military Veteran & Green Beret Tied to New Year’s Day Attacks, Most-Read Stories of 2024, and more.
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Good Afternoon! It’s Thursday, Jan 2nd.
With a high of 76°, we will have a beautifully sunny start to our new year.
A U.S. Army Veteran and Active-Duty Green Beret Connected to Separate New Year's Day Attacks
On New Year's Day, the nation witnessed two separate attacks, stirring fears of terrorism. Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, an Army vet turned violent, caused mayhem in New Orleans—plowing through a crowd and firing randomly, leaving 15 dead. Shockingly, an ISIS flag was found in his vehicle. Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, an unrelated explosion killed active-duty Green Beret Matthew Livelsberger, who detonated a rented Cybertruck outside a Trump hotel using fireworks and gas tanks. The FBI confirmed no definite connection between the incidents. The New Orleans attack was one of the deadliest, with Jabbar's radical associations under investigation. Livelsberger's explosion in Las Vegas added to the chaos of the day. Authorities stress the importance of understanding and learning from these acts to improve national security measures going forward.

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