The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has arrested an Iraqi man living in Ohio for aiding and abetting a plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush. Authorities say the man, Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, told an FBI informant in November that he wanted to target Bush because he was “responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq.”
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Authorities say Bush’s life was never at risk.
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Two undercover informants played key roles in the alleged plot by providing Shihab with cellphones and cellphone data cards and by helping Shihab devise a plan, that never materialized, to smuggle members of ISIS into the country to assist him.
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https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-31-fake-isis-plots-and-the-selling-of-forever-war
edit: additional details in the DoJ release
COLUMBUS, Ohio – An Iraqi citizen living in Columbus, Ohio, has been charged federally with an immigration crime and with aiding and abetting a plot to murder former United States President George W. Bush.
Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, 52, was arrested by FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agents this morning and appeared in federal court here at 2:30pm. His case was unsealed at that time.
Shihab originally entered the United States in September 2020 on a visitor visa, and in March 2021, he filed a claim for asylum with United States citizenship, which is pending review. He lived in both Columbus, Ohio, and Indianapolis and worked at markets and restaurants in both cities. It is alleged that Shihab exchanged money with others in an attempt to illegally bring foreign nationals to the United States.
For example, in August 2021, Shihab allegedly intended to help who he thought was another Iraqi citizen enter the United States for a fee of $40,000. Shihab provided specific instructions on how he would smuggle the person into the United States after 60 days. In October and December 2021, Shihab accepted tens of thousands of dollars for the purported smuggling. In reality, the individual was fictitious, and the interaction was coordinated under the direction of the FBI.
The charging document also alleges that Shihab planned to smuggle four additional Iraqi foreign nationals into the United States for the purpose of killing former President George W. Bush in retaliation of Iraqi deaths during “Operation Iraqi Freedom.” Shihab then allegedly planned to smuggle the four out of the United States via the United States/Mexico border after they carried out the assassination.
In furtherance of the assassination plot, Shihab allegedly traveled to Dallas in February 2022 to conduct surveillance of locations associated with the former President. In March 2022, it is alleged Shihab met with others in a hotel room in Columbus, Ohio, to look at sample firearms and law enforcement uniforms.
Lol, so you can just find a helpless schmuck, convince him he has a good plan, fund his fruitless operation and then send him to prison for life when nothing comes of it? This is so funny man
the facility is aboveground its just under the flightpath which is in the air because thats how flight works
that's actually really funny. like, in a "English is funny" way. I 100% see how you came to that conclusion.
ill be honest i had to think about it for a moment myself and im into aviation
Curious, is your username a play on Bathory's 'a fine day to die?'
I can't say it is. It's actually from George Carlin's "list of punk bands I have known"
fund his fruitless operation
how do I become the target of a sting operation so that I can receive funding which I promptly spend on food and internet
:comrade-doggo: "ha ha yea bro i know i fucking hate american capitalism so much i just wish i had [opens fridge] like 60 bucks right now so i could get the stuff from the hardware store for that cool nailbomb design you sent me. also could you get me Elden Ring?"
Thank goodness we have the FBI to stop all of these terrorist plots the FBI keeps cooking up
Saw someone point out that after this story it's suddenly hard to find any previous on search engines about "Bush Dallas Assassination".
search tools, sort by date, custom, choose dates older than the time this story came out
Gen pop wasn't going to do this search to begin with. Not unless someone was whispering "Read this book by Russ Baker in their ear.
This is the dumbest, most obvious PR stunt ever
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO that would have been so awesome if Bush was killed
Stop thinking about the horrible mass murder that we did nothing to prevent - come gawk at this old man that we pointlessly convinced to try to commit a crime so we could ruin his life lmaoooo!!!!
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FBI entrapment plots. So hot right now.
This is the rehabilitation of George W. Bush going to the next level. Liberals are (rightly, for a change) obsessing on domestic terrorism because the news cycle told them to. Problem is, they aren't looking at causes, they just want to act reactionary and call for rough justice. Use that momentum to make someone liberals used to hate look like a victim, and boom! Consent manufactured. W can endorse right wing Dems, and scare people into supporting them, because look how bad everything's gotten? It's the tankies fault for demanding progress.
Interesting note, given the discussion here the other day:
they once again needed an informant/tip. the surveillance state helped, but it wasn't sufficient for them to pick this guy up on their own.
After the second half of the Whitmer kidnappers got off, I wonder if that's where we are headed with pop justice. Seems about right with some of the other fucky stuff the courts are doing around the country
After the second half of the Whitmer kidnappers got off
isn't that because they're mayo/chud? or are you implying something else
I just mean it's emboldening to fash types to see people like Rittenhouse and those guys get off
Shihab originally entered the United States in September 2020 on a visitor visa, and in March 2021, he filed a claim for asylum with United States citizenship, which is pending review.
Oh cool. We've got another excuse to mass-reject asylum claims. How convenient.
this guy was 52 and was never at any point in contact with any "real terrorists"? this is the great threat to western civilization? how does anyone swallow this fucking shit
