An Iraqi man living in the U.S. accused of being an Islamic State operative plotted to smuggle assassins into the country to kill former President George W. Bush, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Shihab Ahmed Shihab, a 51-year-old Iraqi national living in Columbus, Ohio, has been charged with an immigration crime and aiding and abetting a plot to kill Bush, according to the Justice Department. He is accused of meeting with others in a hotel room in Columbus to look at sample firearms and law enforcement uniforms in March and traveling to Dallas in February to scout locations associated with Bush in preparation for the would-be assassination attempt.
According to an FBI search warrant application obtained by Forbes, he said he wanted to assassinate Bush because he held the former president responsible for deaths in Iraq and the breaking up of the country after the U.S. military invasion in 2003, Forbes reported.
The Justice Department specified in its news release that the assassination was plotted as retaliation for “Operation Iraqi Freedom.”
The warrant application was filed by the FBI on March 23 and unsealed this week, according to Forbes. The FBI said the plot was uncovered through surveillance of Shihab’s WhatsApp, an encrypted messaging app owned by Facebook and Instagram parent organization Meta, and the work of two confidential informants.
Forbes said the case shows that federal investigators have continued to monitor actions by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, “even as the group has been severely weakened by American intelligence and military operations in recent years.”
Shihab entered the U.S. in September 2020 on a visitor visa and filed a claim for asylum with U.S. citizenship in March 2021, according to the Justice Department. He has lived in Columbus and Indianapolis, where he worked at markets and restaurants.
Shihab is also accused of arranging to smuggle someone he thought to be an Iraqi national into the United States for a fee of $40,000, according to the Justice Department. He accepted tens of thousands of dollars in October and December of 2021 as payment for the smuggling.
Shihab could spend up to 10 years in prison if he is found guilty of attempting to illegally bring an individual into the United States, a federal crime. Also a federal crime, aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States official has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, if convicted, according to the Justice Department.
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“Shihab could spend up to 10 years in prison if he is found guilty of attempting to illegally bring an individual into the United States, a federal crime. Also a federal crime, aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former United States official has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, if convicted, according to the Justice Department.”
Something of that magnitude deserves capital punishment.
I really don’t care one way or the other. Let them go after the elite and ruling class to their heart’s content!
I WONDER.. when did this nutter, COME INTO america? WHICH dem, pushed to get him allowed in?
Didn’t PinocchiObama and “Crooked Hillary” try to con us into thinking Islam is a religion of peace and we should embrace more of them in our country?
Now again we see the traitorous, corrupt, puppet president Joe “B”iden Obama doing it again but this time he is importing multi-million illegal immigrants.
“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.”
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/iraqi-citizen-living-in-ohio-plotted-to-assassinate-former-president-george-w-bush-over-iraq-war-doj/
Irony that they were going to use the Open Borders that Jorge himself worked so hard to keep open to kill him. Maybe Jorge finally understands why we wanted them secure for years.
AND if what he said, isn’t PROOF of why we need to seal up our southern border, NOTHING IS.
I’m surprised the ” squad” is not involved in this somehow. Well, that was my first thought , when I heard that on the news.
open borders! can the public get a dam clue to what this regime is doing?
Libtards who VOTED THe fools and traitors in office, who are KEEPING OUR border more porous than a chain link fence, can’t ever GET A CLUE..
If Shihab Ahmed Shihab ‘could spend up to 10 years in prison if he is found guilty of attempting to illegally bring an individual into the United States, a federal crime,’ why couldn’t the higher-ups in the Biden administration be tried on the same counts as they are allowing said violations at our southern border?
BECAUSE laws only apply to US, not the tyrants in charge.