ALERT: An ISIS Plot To Assassinate President Bush Has Been Stopped…

An ISIS member in the U.S. was plotting to kill former President George W. Bush in revenge for the Iraq war.

The ISIS terrorist was identified as Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab, the suspect, from Columbus, Ohio was set to travel to Dallas and put Bush’s house on surveillance.

Shihab would then have “smuggled” at least four Iraqi compatriots across the Mexican border to execute his plans with the help of ISIS operatives, the search warrant filed in March said. The warrant has been resealed after it was studied by Forbes on Tuesday.

Multiple outlets reported this incident:

The FBI has uncovered a plot by ISIS to assassinate former President George W. Bush.

The alleged plotter came into the U.S. in 2020, claimed asylum, and was planning to smuggle his terrorist friends in through the southern border.

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) May 24, 2022

Woah.@Forbes reports the FBI uncovered a plot by an ISIS operative living in the U.S. to kill George W. Bush.
The FBI says the ISIS operative was hoping to smuggle a team of four Iraqi men through the Southern border after getting them MX visitor visas. https://t.co/vPPdsYOdrS

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) May 24, 2022

The failed plot to assassinate President George W. Bush relied on getting ISIS operatives Mexican visitor visas and smuggling them across the southern border.

The alleged organizer had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending.https://t.co/IhUVisKFCx

— Ben Goldey (@BenGoldey) May 24, 2022

WLT commented further:

This news comes as the situation at the southern border continues to get worse. Biden’s attempt to lift Title 42 is predicted to lead to a historic surge at the border.

While many are looking for a better life, terrorists and criminals also take advantage of the broken system that Biden appears to be breaking even more. The ISIS plot to kill Bush proves how vital our border is to national security.

Exclusive details from Forbes report:

An alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president’s home and recruiting help from a team of compatriots he hoped to smuggle into the country over the Mexican border, according to an FBI search-warrant application filed March 23 and unsealed this week in the Southern District of Ohio.

The FBI said it uncovered the scheme through the work of two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter’s account on the Meta-owned WhatsApp messaging platform. The alleged ISIS operative, based in Columbus, Ohio, said he wanted to assassinate Bush because he felt the former president was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the country after the 2003 U.S. military invasion, according to the warrant.

The case shows how federal investigators continue to monitor threats from ISIS even as the group has been severely weakened by American intelligence and military operations in recent years. It also shows how the FBI, despite its claims of being prevented from investigating major crimes because of Meta and other tech providers’ use of encryption, has been able to work around WhatsApp security by using old-school policing with sourcing of informants and tracking the metadata they can get from the messaging company.

The alleged plot organizer had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending, according to the FBI’s search-warrant application. Federal agents used two different confidential sources to investigate the plot, one who claimed to offer assistance obtaining false immigration and identification documents, the second a purported customer of the alleged people smuggler, who was willing to pay thousands of dollars to bring his family into the country.

Sources: WLT, New York Times, Forbes