U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies are reportedly concerned about copycat vehicle-ramming attacks following the attack in New Orleans by a US military veteran, Shamsud-Din Jabbar.
According to a bulletin seen by Reuters, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the US National Counterterrorism Center “are concerned about possible copycat or retaliatory attacks”.
Such attacks “are likely to remain attractive for aspiring assailants given vehicles’ ease of acquisition and the low skill threshold necessary to conduct an attack”, the bulletin issued to US law-enforcement agencies said.
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