Inside the shabby trailer where New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar plotted his New Year’s Eve massacre, a copy of the Quran sat open on a reading stand. The final lines on the page tell of the promise of paradise for those who kill and are martyred in the name of Allah.
“They fight in His cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding,” the passage says.
That promise inspired Jabbar, 42, as he prepared his attack, pledging allegiance to Islamic State. They may have been the last words that the father of three read before setting out for New Orleans with the intent to kill, knowing that he would probably die in the attempt.
Hours later, 14 revellers had been murdered in the heart