Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush

HIGH JATERA. WELL, HEY THERE SHEREE. ETH FBI HAS BEEN WATCHING THIS SUSPECT CLOSELY. FOR MORE THAN A YREA NOW FBI JOINT TERRORISM AGENTS PICKED HIM UP THIS MORNING AND HE SPENT THE AFTERNOON HERE IN FEDERAL COURT. TOP AHMED. SHE HOPED SHE HUB IN FEDERAL CUSTODY FORWO T ALLEGED PLOTS FOILED BYHE T FENCE ACCORDING TO A NEWLY UNSEALED CRIMINAL COMPLAINT AGAINST THE 52 YEAR OLD. HE PLANNED TO KILL FORMER PRESIDTEN GEORGE WUS BH AND SMUGGLE ROCKY NATIONALS INTO THE US THROU TGHHE SOUTHERN BORDER TO HPEL CARRY OUT THE ATTACK TELLING A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE. THEY WISH TO KILL FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH BECAUSE THEY FELT HEAS W RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING MANY IRAQIS AND BREAKING APART THE ENTIRE COUNTRY OF IRAQ ABOUT A SERIOUS AS IT GETS HARRY TROMBITAS WERE TIRED IN 2012 AFTER ALMOST 30 YEARS WITH THE FBI. HE SAYS AGESNT SNDPE MONTHS AND EVEN YEARS BUILDING CASES TO MAKE SURE TIRHE AIRTIGHT YOU HAVE TO ABLE PTOROVE. ATTH TYHE HAVE TAKEN STEPS TOWASRD COMPLETING THAT PLOT AND YOU KNOW THAT IT WAS MORE THAN JUST. AN IDLE THREAT FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS SAY SHEEHA FLEW TO DALLASN I FEBRUARY TO CONDUCT SURVEILLANCE OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT’S HOME AND LOOKED AT NSGU ANDE FAK LAW ENFORCEMENT UNIFORMS. THOSE WERE OVERT ACTS. THAT INDICATE THAT THIS PLOT WAS FOR REAL. FOR 2020 PLAINT SAYS SHE HAVE TOTAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT. HE CAME TO THE US THROUGH A VISITOR VISA WHICH HE INDICATED HE OBTAINED THROUGH. ASSISTANCEF O A CORRUPT IRAQI AMERICAN CONTRACTOR AT THE US EMBASSY ACCORDI TNGO THE FEDS. HE ALSO APPLIED FOR ASYMLU ACCORDING TO AN FBI APPLICATION FOR A SEAHRC WARRANT OBTAINED BY W&WT SHEEHUB WAS CONCERNED REGARDING HIS PENDING IMMIGRATION ASYLUM APPLICATION AND MAY GET MARRIED TO A WOMAN WHO WAS A UNITED STATES CITENIZ IN ORDER TO OBTAIN IMMIGRATION STATUS. ALL RIGHT, SHE HUB ALSO MADE CLAIMS. HE HAS TIES TO ISIS. HE IS FACING TWO FEDERAL CHARGES THAT CARRY UP TO 30 YEARS IN PRISON IF HE IS CONVICTED, HE’S DUE BACK HERE IN FEDERAL COURT AT THE END OF THE WEEK FOR A BOND HEARING. WE'R’ ALIVE IN COLUMBUS TONIGHT. JOTARA MCGEE DEBIAN WT NEWS 5 DETERIOR, NOOU CRT DOCUMENTS LAY OUT SEVERAL MONETARY EXCHANGES IN THIS ALLEGED SMUGGLING ATTEMPT. WHAT’S THE FBI SAYING ABOUT THE MONEY? YEAH SURE. THIS IS INTERESTING. SO THERE WERE SEVERAL CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE FEDS ON THIS SOME GIVING MONEY TO SHEHUB OTHERS TAKING MONEY FROM HIM. THE FEDS SAY TTHA HE RECEIVED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR HIS ROLE. WHAT HE BELIEVED WAS HIS ROLE IN SMUGGLING PEOPLE INTO THE COUNTRY, BUT THE FEDS SAY THERE WAS NO ONE ACTUALLY BROUGHT IN. IT WAS JUST A MAD

An Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Tuesday and faces federal charges related to an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced.Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab has been charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States official, as well as with an immigration crime for his alleged attempt to illegally bring foreign nationals to the United States.According to the Justice Department, Shihab is alleged to have planned to smuggle four Iraqi nationals as part of plot. Court documents obtained by CNN describe reconnaissance by Shihab that included driving to the neighborhood of Bush's residence in Dallas."President Bush has all the confidence in the world in the United States Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities," Bush's chief of staff Freddy Ford said in a statement.The investigation was disclosed in a March 23 application filed under seal, seeking a search warrant for phone records of a person identified in the documents as Shihab Ahmed Shihab, who entered the U.S. in September 2020.The FBI uncovered the plot through confidential informants, one of whom recorded discussions about the assassination plot with Shihab in meetings late last year and through the spring, the documents show. There is no suggestion in the documents that the former president was ever in danger.The warrant application, filed in the Southern District of Ohio, was first reported by Forbes.One of those conversations was alleged to have happened in November during a trip that Shihab and the informant took from Columbus, Ohio, to the Detroit area and back.During the November meeting, Shihab is alleged to have told an FBI informant that "they wished to kill former president Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq."According to a January conversation recounted in the warrant application, Shihab described himself as a "soldier waiting for directions from the leadership in Qatar."In February, during in-person meetings in Dallas that the documents say were recorded, Shihab and the informant drove to the neighborhood of Bush's residence in Dallas, as Shihab took videos of the neighborhood's access gate and the surrounding area, according to the documents.During the February meetings, Shihab and the informant also traveled to the George W. Bush Institute, where they walked around on foot.

WASHINGTON —

An Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, was arrested Tuesday and faces federal charges related to an alleged plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush, the Justice Department announced.

Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab has been charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States official, as well as with an immigration crime for his alleged attempt to illegally bring foreign nationals to the United States.

According to the Justice Department, Shihab is alleged to have planned to smuggle four Iraqi nationals as part of plot. Court documents obtained by CNN describe reconnaissance by Shihab that included driving to the neighborhood of Bush's residence in Dallas.

"President Bush has all the confidence in the world in the United States Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities," Bush's chief of staff Freddy Ford said in a statement.

The investigation was disclosed in a March 23 application filed under seal, seeking a search warrant for phone records of a person identified in the documents as Shihab Ahmed Shihab, who entered the U.S. in September 2020.

The FBI uncovered the plot through confidential informants, one of whom recorded discussions about the assassination plot with Shihab in meetings late last year and through the spring, the documents show. There is no suggestion in the documents that the former president was ever in danger.

The warrant application, filed in the Southern District of Ohio, was first reported by Forbes.

One of those conversations was alleged to have happened in November during a trip that Shihab and the informant took from Columbus, Ohio, to the Detroit area and back.

During the November meeting, Shihab is alleged to have told an FBI informant that "they wished to kill former president Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq."

According to a January conversation recounted in the warrant application, Shihab described himself as a "soldier waiting for directions from the leadership in Qatar."

In February, during in-person meetings in Dallas that the documents say were recorded, Shihab and the informant drove to the neighborhood of Bush's residence in Dallas, as Shihab took videos of the neighborhood's access gate and the surrounding area, according to the documents.

During the February meetings, Shihab and the informant also traveled to the George W. Bush Institute, where they walked around on foot.

Iraqi citizen living in Ohio arrested after allegedly plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush

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