
Precursor chemicals were found in the north Houston home that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the suspect in the deadly New Year's Day attack on Bourbon Street, was renting, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New Orleans. The FBI with the Houston Branch said that they found precursor chemicals while investigating the property in north Harris County that Jabbar had been renting for two years, the FBI in New Orleans confirmed over e-mail Friday morning. Precursor chemicals can be used to produce homemade explosives "by either mixing or blending with other...