U.S. officials say they have not established a direct link between the suspect in Iraq and the man who carried out the New Year's attack on Bourbon Street that killed 14 people.

The arrest comes months after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas killed ... On Dec. 31, Jabbar rented a Ford truck in Houston and then drove it to New Orleans, where he checked in to an ...

Investigators believe he was radicalized online by ISIS. READ: ‘Precursor chemicals’ found in Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s Houston trailer after New Orleans attack At his Houston home, investigators ...

The suspect is accused of inciting Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, to carry out the attack ... but was killed before he could blow them. His Houston home was also found filled with bomb-making materials.

The New Year's Day attack in the French Quarter is another example of a terrorist using a vehicle to attack a large group of people.

Officer Nedal Nabhan was vacationing with his wife, Tina, when he saw from his hotel room window a Houston man drive ... The perpetrator, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, also was killed.

He had been living in Houston. After driving his pickup truck onto a sidewalk ... we continue to believe that Shamsud Din-Jabbar acted alone in carrying out the attack on Bourbon Street,” the agency ...