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.

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 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 ...

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 ...