{"id":1490508,"date":"2022-05-24T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490508"},"modified":"2022-05-24T18:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T22:01:28","slug":"fbi-uncovers-iraqi-mans-plot-to-assassinate-former-president-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-uncovers-iraqi-mans-plot-to-assassinate-former-president-george-w-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI uncovers Iraqi man\u2019s plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-uncovers-iraqi-mans-plot-to-assassinate-former-president-george-w-bush%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2720559\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2720559\" class=\"wp-image-2720559 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AP22139641884308.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - U.S. President George W. Bush, reacts, after shoes were thrown at him, by a correspondent, during a joint press conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, not seen, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2008. Bush is facing criticism after mistakenly describing the invasion of Iraq \u2014 which he led as commander in chief \u2014 as \u201cbrutal\u201d and \u201cwholly unjustified,\u201d before correcting himself to say he meant to refer to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. He added, \u201cIraq, too \u2014 anyway.\u201d The 75-year-old former president made the comment during a speech Wednesday night in Dallas, jokingly blamed the mistake on his age. (AP Photo\/ Thaier al-Sudani, Pool, File)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AP22139641884308.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AP22139641884308-314x210-1.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AP22139641884308-653x437-1.jpg 653w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AP22139641884308-768x514-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2720559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 U.S. President George W. Bush, reacts, after shoes were thrown at him, by a correspondent, during a joint press conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, not seen, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2008. (AP Photo\/ Thaier al-Sudani, Pool, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 1:50 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 24, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>An Iraqi man living in Columbus, Ohio is in FBI custody in connection with a suspected ISIS plot to assassinate former President George W. Bush. According to a recently unsealed search warrant Shihab Ahmend Shihab detailed his plan to take revenge for the Iraq War to an informant.<\/p>\n<p>That same informant reportedly drove the suspect around Dallas, Texas in February, where he took video and photos of Bush\u2019s home and offices. Federal agents said the suspect wanted to assassinate Bush because he felt the former president was responsible for \u201ckilling many Iraqis and breaking apart the country after the 2003 US military invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cPresident Bush has all the confidence in the world,\u201d said the former Chief of Staff Freddy Ford. \u201cIn the U.S. Secret Service, our law enforcement and intelligence communities.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FBI claimed that Shihab belonged to a group named Arabic for Thunder, headed until recently by a former pilot for the executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The FBI also surveilled the suspect\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/\">WhatsApp<\/a> account to collect evidence and said he had been living in the U.S. since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Shihab allegedly told the informant \u201che wanted to be involved in the actual attack and assassination\u201d and that he \u201cdid not care if he died as he would be proud to have been involved.\u201d A federal agent mentioned that he inquired about how to obtain fake FBI and police badges.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Colleague Bill Mears confirms an ISIS suspect is under arrest for alleged plot to assassinate former President George W Bush<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2013 identified as Shihab Ahmed Shihab\u2013 is due in federal court in Columbus, OH shortly where he will appear before a federal magistrate<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kelly Phares (@kellyfphares) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kellyfphares\/status\/1529158167057383427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The suspect is also accused of trying to smuggle four other Iraqi nationals into the country across the southern border. He is being charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder of former President Bush which carries a prison sentence up to 20 years, along with being charged with attempting to illegally bring an individual into the U.S., a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/man-accused-of-attacking-dave-chapelle-was-triggered-by-lgbtq-joke\/\">Man Accused Of Attacking Dave Chapelle Was Triggered By LGBTQ Joke<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 U.S. President George W. Bush, reacts, after shoes were thrown at him, by a correspondent, during a joint press conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, not seen, in Baghdad, Iraq, Dec. 14, 2008. (AP Photo\/ Thaier al-Sudani, Pool, File) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 1:50 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, May 24, 2022 An Iraqi man &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":764,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}