An Iraqi asylum seeker living in Ohio was charged with aiding and abetting a plot to assassinate former president George W Bush in revenge for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, federal prosecutors said.
Shihab Ahmed Shihab (52) was arrested Tuesday in Ohio by agents with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, the US attorney’s office in Cincinnati said in a statement. Mr Shihab was being closely tracked by the Federal Bureau of Investigation after he unwittingly revealed the alleged plot to a paid FBI informant in 2021, according to court documents.
The plotters “wished to kill former president Bush because they felt that he was responsible for killing many Iraqis and breaking apart the entire country of Iraq,” FBI special agent John Ypsilantis said in a March 23rd search warrant that was unsealed on Tuesday.
According to the FBI, Mr Shihab, who entered the US in September 2020, conducted surveillance on Mr Bush’s home and offices in the Dallas area in February with assistance from the informant, who drove him around the city.
Now is not the time to lose Dubya. There is too much comedy gold right now.