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NY Times reporter who interviewed New Orleans terrorist 10 years ago recalls 'no red flags'
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0:32Now PlayingA New York Times journalist said there were no “red flags” after discovering that 10 years ago, he interviewed the US Army vet who killed 15 people in a New Orleans crowd early New Year’s Day.
The suspect, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar, slammed a rented Ford pickup truck flying an ISIS flag into a celebratory crowd early Wednesday.
The suspect killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more in what the FBI is investigating as a terrorist attack.
An uncovered 10-year-old article for a college newspaper revealed that Sean Keenan, an Atlanta-based journalist and freelance contributor for the New York Times, had interviewed Jabbar while the two were attending Georgia State University in 2015.
“My head was spinning, and what little I remember about that interview was a very cool, calm and collected guy,” Keenan told CNN’s Paula Newton on Thursday. “Nothing about his character threw any red flags.”
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