Federal authorities discovered a cooler filled with sulfuric acid inside a Texas storage unit rented by ISIS-inspired terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar a week after he carried out a deadly truck attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, the FBI said Tuesday.
The cooler contained bottles of sulfuric acid that can be easily purchased from a commercial business, the agency said in a statement after the feds and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office raided the unit late Monday.
Sulfuric acid is a colorless, corrosive and reactive chemical.
The area was cleared around midnight.
“There was, and is, no threat to public safety at this time in relation to that activity,” the FBI field office in Houston told The Post in an email.
The sulfuric acid was reportedly purchased at a nearby hardware store, according to Click2Houston.com.
Jabbar was a Harris County resident, living in Houston before his vicious attack in New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, where he killed 14 people and injured dozens more early New Year’s Day.
The terrorist, 42, was shot dead during a gunfight with cops after he barreled down Bourbon Street and crashed into a crane.
Jabbar was seen on surveillance footage leaving improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, inside coolers in the tourist hotspot just before he rammed his truck into the throng of revelers, the FBI previously said.
He had planned to detonate them with a transmitter, authorities have said.
One of the IEDs was inside a blue cooler that was placed around 1:53 a.m. and another IED was placed in a “bucket-style” cooler around 2:20 a.m., according to the feds.