The FBI claimed it foiled a plot to assassinate former president George Bush. The plot by an Islamic sympathizer was foiled with help of confidential informants.
52-year-old Shihab Ahmed Shihab Shihab was arrested on Tuesday on charges of plotting to assassinate George Bush. The FBI had, in March, acquired a warrant to search Shihab's cellphone records.
Shihab an Iraqi has been in the US since 2020 and has a pending asylum application. As per the warrant, Shihab wanted to assassinate Bush because he felt the former president was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the country after the 2003 US military invasion.
This is based on intelligence received by informants through surveillance of the Shihab's Whatsapp chats, which are supposedly encrypted. He reportedly asked the informant how to acquire replicas of law enforcement badges, which he would use to survey Bush's home. Shihab is known to be an employee of vegetable markets and restaurants in Columbus, Ohio.
The former president is unworried about the incident and he has “all the confidence in the world in the US Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities,” former president’s chief of staff, Freddy Ford told the Guardian.
