Through online campaigning and propaganda, the Islamic State group continues to attract new recruits for its global terror campaign, the New Orleans attack shows.

The attack on Bourbon Street "struck me as being particularly reminiscent of ISIS advice,” said Joshua Fisher-Birch, a researcher at the Counter Extremism Project.

The attacker who killed 14 pedestrians on Bourbon Street was “influenced by the discourse and messaging of the Islamic State,” the terrorist group said in a bulletin dated Thursday.