New Orleans attacker posted several videos in hours before attack NBC Chicago

The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans posted a series of videos to social media in the hours before the attack, the FBI said Thursday.

The FBI revealed that driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. citizen from Texas, posted five videos on his Facebook account proclaiming his support for the Islamic State group and previewing the violence that he would soon unleash in the city’s famed French Quarter district.

They also now believe he acted alone, reversing their position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in the deadliest IS-inspired assault on U.S. soil in years.

“This was an act of terrorism. It was premeditated and an evil act,” said Christopher Raia, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, calling Jabbar “100% inspired” by the Islamic State.

The attack killed 14 revelers, along with Jabbar, who was fatally shot in a …