Terrorists in both the New Orleans massacre and the Las Vegas cybertruck explosion served at the same Army base and served in Afghanistan at the same time, around 2009-2010.
Early this morning, Matthew Livelsberger was named as the terrorist who detonated the cybertruck in Las Vegas. He also appears to be a Democrat, which could explain why he chose a cybertruck.
Here’s more from the Independent:
Just hours after Shamsud-Din Jabbar rammed a truck into New Year’s Day revellers in New Orleans killing at least 15 people, reports came in of a second suspected terror attack in Las Vegas.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, media outlets in Colorado named Matthew Livelsberger as the man who detonated a Tesla Cybertruck outside Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel at 8.40 a.m. on Wednesday. Police are investigating whether it was a terrorist attack.
Livelsberger, 37, of Colorado Springs, died in the blast, with sevone other sustaining minor injuries, police said. Officials have not yet confirmed the name of the suspect or identify any of those who were injured.
In addition, Livelsberger and Jabbar rented their vehicles via the carsharing company, Turo, officials have said.
Authorities are investigating a possible link between the two men. At the time they were fighting in the Middle East, the US had around 100,000 military personnel in Afghanistan as part of President Barack Obama’s ‘troop surge.’
According to CBS, law enforcement sources said that Livelsberger was on active duty with the Army serving in Germany and was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident. His wife allgedly hadn’t heard from him in several days prior to the incident, the source said.
Here’s more about Livelsberger:
Livelsberger spent 18 of his 19-year Army career with the Special Forces, according to his Linkedin profile. He is believed to have joined the Green Beret’s as a commmunicaton’s specialist in January 2006, before becoming a operations manager and team sergeant in February 2023.
The profile picture on the account shows a man sporting winter gear armed with an assault rifle, standing atop of a snowmobile in mountainous terrain.
His most recent role, from November 2024, was listed as a Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager for the Army.
Livelsberger earned a summa cum laude – an award given to the students earning the highest grades in their class – after graduating from Norwich University in Vermont with a degree in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis, according to the social media profile.
It also states he earned the Department of State Meritorious Honor Award for “interagency contributions that resulted in increased interoperability and efficiency while serving as the Operations Sergeant at Special Operations Command Forward”.
Livelsberger often commented on posts from military personnel. In a comment on one viral post from an Air Force veteran, he responded to a question noting that “the govt” was responsible for making people believe they were responsible for others’ student debt.
Erasing student debts was a signature Biden-era policy.
At the age of 22, Livelsberger began collecting clothes, toys and educational items for children and disseminating off humanitarian aid while serving a tour in Afghanistan, he told the News Journal in his native Ohio.
Appealing to US citizens for donations in Janaury, 2010, he told the outlet: “Handing out humanitarian assistane continues to be one of the few approaches of gaining the credibility and loyalty of the people of Afghanistan and I believe you are directly contributing to our success at ground level.”
His wife, believed to be Sara Livelsberger, wrote on Facebook in May 2016 that she was a registered Democrat. She posted a picture of a graphic commissioned by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee appearing to show Donald Trump which read “stop bigotry”.
She captioned the post: “Perks of being a registered Democrat… I can’t wait to slap this baby on my truck.”
It sounds like both men knew each other and coordinated their attacks. We don’t know that for certain yet but that is where the evidence seems to point. I’ll let you know when I have more…
