New Orleans ISIS terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar bomb-making station & Quran open to chilling passage

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lSlS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar kept a bomb-making workbench in his ramshackle Texas trailer home — where a Quran was left open on a page about “slaying” in the name of Allah, exclusive photos obtained by The Post show

Jabbar’s north Houston home was filled with chemical residue and chemical bottles, while an inventory of items seized by the FBI — left behind by investigators who raided his house on Wednesday — included a long list of compounds used in bomb-making

His Quran was propped atop a bookshelf, a centerpiece in his living room, and open to a passage reading, “they fight in Allah’s cause, and slay and are slain; a promise binding…”

That passage, Verse 9:111, expounds on Muslims’ responsibility to kill Allah’s enemies, and to be willing to die for that mission in return for eternity in paradise

Numerous books about Islam were also on the shelf and around the squalid home, while a prayer rug was rolled up nearby

FBI officials on Thursday said Jabbar posted five disturbing videos on Facebook on his drive from Houston to New Orleans just hours before he unleashed carnage on Bourbon Street, leaving 14 innocent pedestrians dead

In the first disturbing video — posted at 1:29 a.m. — the US Army veteran said he had initially planned on murdering his family and friends, but changed his mind over concerns the resulting media coverage wouldn’t focus on the “war between the believers and disbelievers,” FBI counterterrorism official Chris Raia said.

In other videos, he said he had joined lSlS “before this summer” and showed off his last will and testament

Investigators confirmed Jabbar, 42, was ideologically aligned with lSlS and that he specifically chose Bourbon Street as the target of his monstrous act of terror

However, they have yet to piece together what precisely brought about his radicalization

The IT whiz was on a legitimate career path until apparently falling on hard times both personally and financially

He contended with two failed marriages and faced mounting debt before he murdered 14 innocent pedestrians and injured dozens more with an explosive-laden Ford F-150 truck bearing the black flag of the jihadist group.

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