The 4 folks the feds thought had been in cahoots with New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar weren’t serving to him plant bombs across the French Quarter … they had been celebration folks on the lookout for their subsequent drink.

Federal sources inform TMZ … the confusion began when investigators checked out surveillance video from the Bourbon Road space and observed 3 males and a girl peering inside two coolers by which Jabbar had planted do-it-yourself bombs … resulting in theories Jabbar was not appearing alone.

Our sources say investigators in the end decided these folks weren’t terrorists in any respect … somewhat they had been partiers checking the coolers to see if there was booze inside.

After they did not discover what they had been on the lookout for, they walked away and left the IEDs undisturbed. The feds now consider these of us had no clue they had been looking at explosive gadgets, probably as a result of they had been drunk.

Our sources additionally say the FBI is now in possession of a number of cellular gadgets belonging to Jabbar … and the hope is these gadgets may shine a lightweight on his ISIS radicalization.

Our sources say the feds have already put collectively a timeline … Jabbar went to a gun store in Houston on Dec. 31 however he did not purchase something, and he additionally spent a part of his New 12 months’s Eve at a gun vary.