The application was filed on March 23 and briefly unsealed this week in the Southern District of Ohio.
It describes how the suspect, Shihab Ahmed Shihab, an Iraqi asylum seeker, visited Dallas in November and took video footage of the area around the former President’s home.
The FBI announced its proof came through two confidential informants and surveillance of messages sent to and from the suspect’s WhatsApp account, according to Forbes, which was the first to report on the warrant.
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The claimed ISIS member reportedly argued he wanted to kill Bush because of his part in launching the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003.
The plot, with international links and allegations of high-powered connections, sounds sophisticated and far-reaching.
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Yet, the reliance on confidential informants - who usually face charges and who can earn tens of thousands of dollars for their information - will trigger anxieties that the details will not stand up to scrutiny following the collapse of other high-profile cases.
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One of the informants reportedly offered assistance to people wanting false immigration and identification documents, while the other allegedly used people smuggling services.
NBC reported that the suspect was in custody on Tuesday.
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Freddy Ford, chief of staff for the Office of George W. Bush, explained to Forbes: “President Bush has all the confidence in the world in the United States Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities.”
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The warrant reportedly declares that the suspect told an informant in November last year of his plot and questioned how to “obtain replica or fraudulent police and/or FBI identifications and badges” to help carry out the killing and whether it was possible to smuggle the plotters back out of the U.S. afterward.
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He asked the informant for details regarding security at Bush’s home in Dallas and his Crawford, Texas, ranch.
He even intended to find and kill a former Iraqi general now living in the U.S. under a new identity after working with American forces throughout the war.
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His plan, according to the warrant, was to use Mexican visitor visas for four Iraqi nationals to enter Mexico before smuggling them over the border.
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Shihab stated that two of them were former Iraqi intelligence agents
.Seamus Hughes, deputy director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, explained, according to Forbes: “It’s clear this was a sophisticated counterterrorism operation with a lot of moving parts. It was both far-reaching and unique in its targeting.”
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