{"id":78359,"date":"2022-05-26T00:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T00:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78359"},"modified":"2022-05-26T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T13:51:02","slug":"fbi-foiled-terror-plot-to-kill-george-w-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=78359","title":{"rendered":"FBI foiled terror plot to kill George W Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> An Islamic State sympathiser planned to murder former US President George W Bush but the plot was discovered by the FBI, US authorities have revealed.<\/p>\n

The suspect, a resident of Ohio, allegedly sought to have Iraqi operatives smuggled into the US from Mexico for the operation.<\/p>\n

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He is now in custody and appeared at a federal court in Ohio on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The FBI used informants and electronic surveillance to foil his plan.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, the suspect – identified as Shihab Ahmed Shihab, 52 – is an Iraqi national who has been in the US since 2020 and had a pending asylum application.<\/p>\n

The FBI claims that Mr Shihab told a confidential source, a purported people smuggler, that he belonged to a group known as Al-Raed – Arabic for thunder – which is based in Qatar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News Desk: An Islamic State sympathiser planned to murder former US President George W Bush but the plot was discovered by the FBI, US authorities have revealed. The suspect, a resident of Ohio, allegedly sought to have Iraqi operatives smuggled into the US from Mexico for the operation. He is now in custody and appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n