Breaking: ISIS Assassination Attempt on Former President

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Federal authorities jailed an Iraqi male on May 24th in connection to a supposed Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist assassination plot on a former U.S. President George W. Bush.

Forbes initially reported the FBI revealed a supposed assassination plot by an Iraqi male against Bush on behalf of ISIS. The suspect supposedly outlined to smuggle fellow ISIS members into the U.S. to assist him to perform the attack.

Forbes at first decreased to report the suspect’s name as he has actually not been charged, however, the U.S. Department of Justice consequently revealed they had actually apprehended the suspect and determined him as 52-year-old Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab. The DOJ is charging Shihab with abetting and helping in a murder plot.

PHOENIX, AZ – MARCH 16: Former President George W. Bush speaks at the Phoenix Convention Center on March 16, 2011 in Phoenix, AZ.

The FBI discovered the supposed plot with the help of 2 personal informants and by surveilling the Shihab’s account on the Meta-owned WhatsApp messaging platform.

FBI got a search warrant versus the Iraqi guy on March 23 and the search warrant was unsealed in a federal court for Ohio’s Southern District today. According to the unsealed search warrant, which was shown by Forbes, Shihab wished to assassinate Bush as retribution for buying the 2003 intrusion of Iraq. According to the warrant, Shihab thought about Bush was responsible for the deaths of numerous Iraqi people and the fracturing of the nation.

According to the warrant, Shihab had actually remained in the U.S. because 2020 and was waiting for a response on an application for asylum in the U.S.

Among the FBI informants declared to have actually provided Shihab some help in getting incorrect migration and recognition records. The other informant was a fellow consumer of the exact same smugglers whose assistance the suspect apparently outlined to utilize to slip assassins into the U.S.

In November of 2021, Shihab informed among the informants– whom Forbes referred to as an FBI expert– that he comes from a horror cell called “Al-Raed,” (meaning “Thunder”). The suspect informed the FBI expert he prepared to bring as lots of as 7 members of the cell into the U.S.

Shihab supposedly stated the Al-Rael cell consisted of banished members of Iraq’s Baath celebration, which was the political company of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein prior to he was deposed after the 2003 U.S. intrusion of Iraq. The suspect stated among individuals he prepared to bring into the U.S. was  “the secretary of an ISIS financial minister.”

Shihab apparently asked the informant if he understood how to “obtain replica or fraudulent police and/or FBI identifications and badges for the strategy.

The DOJ stated Shihab took a trip to Dallas, Texas in February to surveil Bush.

The DOJ stated in March, Shihab met others to take a look at sample weapons and uniforms for the plot.

It is uncertain what extra security steps have actually been put in place around Bush given that the FBI became aware of this supposed assassination plot.

Freddy Ford, chief of personnel for the Office of George W. Bush, informed Forbes, “President Bush has all the confidence in the world in the United States Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities.”

H/T American Military News

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