FBI, leading New Orleans investigation, has history of having foreknowledge, encouraging terrorist attacks , failing to prevent them

GARLAND, TX - In 2015, roughly ten years before the New Orleans terrorist attack that killed 15 and injured dozens of people, including two city police officers, an FBI agent was befriended by a man, Erick Jamal Hendricks, who connected him to a radical Islamist terrorist, Elton Simpson, The Federalist reports. 

The undercover agent, who has never been identified, encouraged Simpson to “tear up Texas” after being made aware of a possible terrorist attack at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest to be held in Garland. In other words, much as what is alleged to have happened at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, where participants were encouraged by undercover FBI agents and informants to breach the Capitol, also occurred ten years ago. 

The Dallas Morning News reported that the contest was to be held at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland. On May 3, 2015, just before the cartoon contest was to end, Simpson and an accomplice, Madir Hamid Soofi jumped out of a vehicle loaded with multiple rifles and handguns. 

The two men started shooting dozens of rounds at the building, however, they were shot and killed by responding police officers and SWAT teams. CBS News reported at the time that local police had “prevented a massacre.” 

The FBI agent was present at the attack and later told Hendricks, who was not at the attack site, that he was his “eyes” that day, the Dallas Morning News reported. 

According to an AP wire at the time reported by WFAA, the unidentified FBI agent drove by the two men as they opened fire at the Culwell Center. 

Court documents alleged that Garland was spoken explicitly about as a potential target in conversations between the FBI agent and Hendricks in Baltimore, Maryland, the day before the attack. Hendricks was arrested over a year after the Garland attack. 

An attorney who represented a security guard who was shot in the leg during the attack and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, who was convicted on multiple weapons and conspiracy charges in connection with the case, criticized the FBI and believes there is more to the story. 

“We are convinced that there is much more to this story than the FBI has admitted,” the attorney, Trenton Roberts, told the FBI. 

While the FBI agent's presence was initially reported in August 2016, his proximity was unknown until later. 

“A dark sedan in front of the agent made an abrupt stop. As the agent drove around the car, two men with an Islamic State flag, wearing body armor and carrying military-style rifles, got out and opened fire.” 

In court, Kareem’s lawyer, Daniel Maynard, said the FBI agent didn’t attempt to stop the terror attack, the AP report read. 

“This was not an unbiased investigation by the FBI to determine the truth, but a rush to judgment to get a conviction and to cover up the FBI’s own ineptness and misdeeds,” Maynard wrote. 

The FBI is the lead investigative agency probing what led Shansud-Din Jabbar, 42, to carry out the New Orleans attack in the early morning hours on New Year’s Day. Given their history of foreknowledge of such incidents, can they really be counted on to do a fair and impartial investigation? As seems to be the case lately, dead men tell no tales, and just as the man who shot at President-elect Trump was taken out, so too was Jabbar.