The man who murdered at least 15 people with his truck on Bourbon Street last night was flying the black banner of the Islamic State from his truck, according to the FBI. Police shot 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar dead at the scene. So far little else is known about the suspect, but since ISIS flags are not standard options in Ford F-150s, it is reasonable to presume that the driver'a U.S. Army veteran'committed mass murder as an homage to the Islamic State. President-elect Donald Trump famously lamented that Mexico was 'not sending their best' to the United States. After contempt for the New Orleans killer, and sadness for the dead and 35 wounded, my reaction to this attack is relief that for the last decade, the Islamic State has been sending its best, and its best remain verminous incompetents whose most ingenious plots involve driving trucks into crowds. Jabbar is said to have brought along explosives, and to have set his Airbnb on fire, but his bombs either didn't work,...
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