Rising Concerns Over Military Veterans’ Involvement in Ideologically Driven Attacks Amid New Year’s Violence
New Orleans, LA – Recent events in New Orleans and Las Vegas have cast a spotlight on a concerning trend: the involvement of ex-military and active-duty service members in ideologically driven violence. The two separate attacks on New Year’s Day, resulting in multiple casualties, are under intense scrutiny as law enforcement agencies grapple with the specter of radicalized veterans orchestrating high-casualty assaults. In New Orleans, a former U.S. Army soldier, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, went on a …