Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) reportedly likened the Islamic terrorist who perpetrated a terrorist attack in the French Quarter of New Orleans this week to another Islamic terrorist who attacked a U.S. military base in 2009.
Cruz’s comments were made in response to the actions of 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, who had pledged allegiance to ISIS prior to the summer.
Jabbar used a rented truck to murder dozens of individuals in the early morning hours of Wednesday before he opened fire on law enforcement and was subsequently killed.
“Well, the FBI has, in far too many instances, not kept their eye on the ball, and that is one of the reasons that Donald Trump is coming into office with an agenda of fundamentally reforming the Department of Justice and the FBI, getting it back focused on its core mission, ending the weaponization, ending the politicization. And its core mission includes preventing acts of terrorism.” Cruz said during a recent episode of his podcast.
President Trump is coming into office with an objective to fundamentally reform the FBI and the DOJ.
The terrorist who committed the New Years Day attacks in New Orleans was a member of the Army and eventually he was radicalized by ISIS.
This is eerily striking to the monster… pic.twitter.com/ZlmhUMuP2d
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 3, 2025
Cruz observed that the investigators are unaware of the process by which Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran residing in Texas, became radicalized and joined ISIS.
Cruz stated that the situation reminded him of Nidal Hasan, an Islamic psychiatrist in the U.S. Army who conducted a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009. Hasan killed over a dozen individuals and injured dozens more.
“Nadal Hassan, you’ll recall, who murdered 14 innocent souls at Fort Hood. He was active duty military, and he became radicalized. And during the Obama administration that they knew that he was communicating with the radical Islamic cleric Anwar al Awlaki and asking about the permissibility of waging jihad on his fellow soldiers.” Cruz remarked.
“And infuriatingly enough, the Obama Pentagon, they had those communications with Anwar al Awlaki, and they did nothing to stop Nadal Hassan from committing that mass murder. They sat on that information. And we don’t know if there’s any of that. We have no indication that there’s any of that information now, but I will say we’re dealing with with another individual who is a soldier who apparently became radicalized and I think there’s a real need for transparency to figure out what happened.” he added.
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