Kurt Peipel
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
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Thanks, Mike. Thanks for having me.
I'm going to assume that after the attack, the scene secured, you know, police are on scene, they've made that safe. What's going to really happen, you know, the Bureau is going to probably bring in some experts, bomb techs, along with the police bomb techs, and then the evidence response teams and maybe other special agents, depending on the needs of, you know, the division at the time.
But, uh, they're going to immediately start trying to identify it. I think you saw it really in both incidents, but, um, and for certainly into Orleans, they identified the attacker pretty, pretty fast.
And so they're going to identify that subject as fast as they can, because they're going to want to go, um, interview co-conspiracy or determine if there's any other threats, you know, out there like co-conspirators or anything like that. Um, They're going to do interview all the witnesses. They're going to ask for video, you know, either locally or by cell phone.
That's going to be a lot of work just to go through all that. But they have identified the Royalene subject. And, you know, initially, the Bureau, the FBI and the police had said that there was other pro conspirators. Now they've come out and said he acted alone. Which is interesting.
I felt like the FBI has said that they're trying to be more transparent and therefore they're releasing information as it comes, which in an investigation that can change quickly. So now they're saying, originally they said there was co-conspirators, now they're saying they're not.
It certainly is interesting. Let's say that. I don't know why someone would say that. In my experience, we usually didn't weigh in that early on stuff like that because you just don't know, right? The answer is we don't know what this was. When I grew up in the Bureau of the Default, it was like almost every bomb is a terrorist event until we were proven otherwise.
So I think in that specific instance, I don't understand why it was said, But someone clearly thought that it wasn't an incident. And then when they pulled out the ISIS flag almost immediately, it was an issue, right? Like you had to come back and say, yes, it is, you know?
So, and I think now they're finding a social media and, you know, he posted videos, you know, an hour and a half up to 10 minutes before he committed the event. So where he's declaring himself for ISIS and all that. So I think clearly this in New Orleans, it clearly is a terrorist event.
Is he not? I mentioned before, obviously, we've talked about the video posts. We've talked about, you know, they're going through all his social media. They're going to look at phones, you know, his contacts, not just domestically, but I mean, your world too. Your old world is, you know, overseas. Did he have overseas contacts? You know, they're going to try to go through...
really scour everything that this individual financial, everything that this person has done their whole entire life. They're going to try to go through every bit of it to see who he is at contact with, where does those line up with other things. They're going to talk to people. It's a big human intelligence endeavor now.
They're probably talking to a ton of individuals, witnesses, like I mentioned before. That is going to be a big lift right now to try to figure out if there were co-conspirators. And I will tell you that obviously they've come out and said they think that this person acted alone. So, they went through it pretty quickly to determine that he wasn't or he didn't have other people involved.
I haven't seen this site, but I suspect that they will be doing a hot wash, at least I hope they would, to figure out if there is some exchange. What I imagine with this area is that if they put in more secure concrete,
Ballards or something like that, that emergency vehicles probably couldn't get down the road until they maybe have a conflict internally of like, hey, we have to have emergency vehicles get in, but you know, where the police cars could move quickly, those ballards probably, the electric ones drop. And so, if they had an emergency, they can get in there.
And I'm going to guess that's kind of the tension that they're playing with. Interesting, you meant about like, you know, you meant, I think possibly with this too, and this is pure speculation on my half, is this individual ran an electric vehicle. which I don't know if that was intentional, electric vehicles are pretty quiet.
So, a lot of the same noise that you would hear a car revving up or especially if you were in the crowd, you would hear all these things like really loud engine noise and all these cues that police and other people have are not there.
So, I don't know if this individual thought about that or not, that if he was revving up to get by the police, they may not have had a normal indication of, hey, someone's coming at us, you know what I mean?
I don't know the people involved, but I suspect the people involved, they've done their full assessment of it. And if they've cleared all the IEDs and they've cleared this individual, and now again, no one has a crystal ball to see what could happen. But I think that they wouldn't have opened it if they thought there was an an additional threat.
And I'm sure the police presence down there has grown quite a bit since the incident. So they probably, you know, there's probably a lot of presence, possibly other SWAT teams, things like that, that are a more robust, you know, presence than what was there, you know, a few nights ago. So I would imagine that, yes, it's probably fairly secure down there.
So what they're reporting, yeah, he was a green beret, I mean, decorated green beret, which are, you know, a counterterrorism unit along with a lot of other things that they do. This person drove from Colorado Springs, rented the Tesla Cybertruck and brought it down. It just came out, I think, that he actually shot himself in the head before the bomb exploded.
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