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NJCher

(35,706 posts)
Tue May 24, 2022, 01:14 PM May 2022

ISIS Plotting To Assassinate George W. Bush In Dallas

Source: Forbes, MSN

The FBI used two confidential informants and surveillance of the alleged plotter’s WhatsApp account to reveal plans to smuggle assassins into the U.S. to murder the former president, according to a search warrant application discovered by Forbes.

An alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. was plotting to kill George W. Bush, going so far as to travel to Dallas in November to take video around the former president’s home and recruiting help from a team of compatriots he hoped to smuggle into the country over the Mexican border, according to an FBI search-warrant application filed March 23 and unsealed this week in the Southern District of Ohio.

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The case shows how federal investigators continue to monitor threats from ISIS even as the group has been severely weakened by American intelligence and military operations in recent years. It also shows how the FBI, despite its claims of being prevented from investigating major crimes because of Meta and other tech providers’ use of encryption, has been able to work around WhatsApp security by using old-school policing with sourcing of informants and tracking the metadata they can get from the messaging company.

The alleged plot organizer had been in the U.S. since 2020 and had an asylum application pending, according to the FBI’s search-warrant application. Federal agents used two different confidential sources to investigate the plot, one who claimed to offer assistance obtaining false immigration and identification documents, the second a purported customer of the alleged people smuggler, who was willing to pay thousands of dollars to bring his family into the country.

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Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exclusive-isis-plotting-to-assassinate-george-w-bush-in-dallas/ar-AAXF92i?cvid=2296cd7ab9e242c08794323f2442740c&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover



If ISIS really knew what was going on in this country, wouldn't they have gone after Dick Cheney?

However, if you read the story, they had a number of targets with specific objectives in mind.
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ISIS Plotting To Assassinate George W. Bush In Dallas (Original Post) NJCher May 2022 OP
I am a little torn about this, but if Cheney was tossed in, to could be a go. LiberalArkie May 2022 #1
Maybe they are/were planning to but the FBI can't stand Cheney either Probatim May 2022 #2
Stay with the shoe weapon NewHendoLib May 2022 #3
Remember Oliver North, and his sympathy story how the terrorist Abu Nidal was threatening him and JohnSJ May 2022 #4
+1 peppertree May 2022 #20
A shrub makes a bigger splash The Unmitigated Gall May 2022 #5
Why would they bother at this point? W is spending all his time in his basement Ocelot II May 2022 #6
I wondered the same thing. Why now? Irish_Dem May 2022 #8
It would be easier now IronLionZion May 2022 #9
I understand that piece of it. Irish_Dem May 2022 #12
I had an Irish girlfriend years ago IronLionZion May 2022 #19
My family consists of hot tempered red-heads. Irish_Dem May 2022 #23
If there are 2 ways to interpret something, IronLionZion May 2022 #24
Ha. Irish_Dem May 2022 #26
I'm a Magyar. ChazInAz May 2022 #27
The Irish have hated the English for 800 years. Irish_Dem May 2022 #28
My doowerling wife was Irish. ChazInAz May 2022 #29
My family reunions: Drinking Jameson or beer. Complaining. Irish_Dem May 2022 #30
You might be vindictive as well if choie May 2022 #17
ISIS destroyed Iraq, Syria, and countless innocent lives IronLionZion May 2022 #18
bush's pictures are scary NJCher May 2022 #10
In all the TV clips I saw of Bush, he was never sober. Irish_Dem May 2022 #13
ISIS should love W Bush Polybius May 2022 #7
He put a fundy religious nut on the court BradAllison May 2022 #11
They don't even bother with the other former guy C_U_L8R May 2022 #14
Who would even bother to take the time? DFW May 2022 #15
Kinda interesting how this comes out right after his Iraq gafe. n/r PoliticAverse May 2022 #16
If I had an innocent family member killed by an invading army, Mysterian May 2022 #21
So I wonder how Putin survives. Emile May 2022 #22
I cannot say anything good about George "W" Bush walkingman May 2022 #25
Does this mean Jenna Bush is going to run for president one day, win, and then attack Solly Mack May 2022 #31

JohnSJ

(92,325 posts)
4. Remember Oliver North, and his sympathy story how the terrorist Abu Nidal was threatening him and
Tue May 24, 2022, 01:47 PM
May 2022

his family?

I have to wonder if they are trying to pull the same thing to play the terrorism card again.

I wouldn't trust wray as far as I could throw him


Ocelot II

(115,806 posts)
6. Why would they bother at this point? W is spending all his time in his basement
Tue May 24, 2022, 01:53 PM
May 2022

doing oil paintings of dogs. If they're going to assassinate somebody I can think of a few who are more of an immediate problem.

IronLionZion

(45,494 posts)
19. I had an Irish girlfriend years ago
Tue May 24, 2022, 05:05 PM
May 2022

I'm Indian so we were both oppressed by the English. She was a hot tempered redhead and I still have no idea what I did to make her mad and leave.

Irish_Dem

(47,226 posts)
23. My family consists of hot tempered red-heads.
Tue May 24, 2022, 06:24 PM
May 2022

I confess I have red hair and do not suffer fools gladly.

My brothers and male cousins are well educated successful professionals and they dearly loved a good bar fight in their younger and more foolish years.

Ok I am 100% certain about part of why your old Irish girl friend was mad.

It is one thing for a guy to screw up. We get that. Fairly normal situation.

But then he is totally clueless about it. Even when you explain it several times.
Grrr...

IronLionZion

(45,494 posts)
24. If there are 2 ways to interpret something,
Tue May 24, 2022, 06:40 PM
May 2022

and one of them makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

Irish_Dem

(47,226 posts)
28. The Irish have hated the English for 800 years.
Wed May 25, 2022, 01:52 PM
May 2022

My brother's YDNA testing showed that our male line is from a rare, ancient, prehistoric, pre-druid, pre-celtic Irish line. We were the original tribal group of Ireland. Fighting off all the newcomers to the island, holding grudges against each wave of invaders.

So we figure we have been holding grudges for at least 15,000 years.

ChazInAz

(2,572 posts)
29. My doowerling wife was Irish.
Thu May 26, 2022, 09:02 AM
May 2022

Hanging out with the inlaws was a grudge-fest. I'd kvetch about some of the more Machiavellian Hunyadi, Bessarabi and Stalin, setting them off onto virtually the entirety of Britain! Gods, but I loved them! The one Polish uncle and I would munch pieroshki, drink slivovitz and reminisce about our ancestral Szeklyi and Hussars terrorizing central Europe.

Irish_Dem

(47,226 posts)
30. My family reunions: Drinking Jameson or beer. Complaining.
Thu May 26, 2022, 10:07 AM
May 2022

Causing trouble. It is a good reunion if the cops didn't get called as far as I am concerned. Even though many of the cousins are cops themselves.

Of course with the Irish there is a sentimentality as well, so there will be tears and acknowledgment of the beloved departed. We know that they are with us at the reunion.

That would be fun to sit with you and the Polish uncle!

IronLionZion

(45,494 posts)
18. ISIS destroyed Iraq, Syria, and countless innocent lives
Tue May 24, 2022, 05:03 PM
May 2022

of the people they murdered and the girls they raped.

NJCher

(35,706 posts)
10. bush's pictures are scary
Tue May 24, 2022, 02:36 PM
May 2022

Here's a little story:

About a month or so ago I was at my public library, which weeds out the stacks pretty regularly. They put a sign out: "free books." I always stop to look because I more often than not find kids' books about nature, gardening, nutrition, etc., which I take and give to my little gardeners at our weekly garden sessions. That's what I do for a living now--teach children how to garden and I do this at our public schools, where we've obtained enough grant funding to put in raised beds, greenhouses, garden sheds, etc.

So I stopped at the "free" stack and picked up a book and absentmindedly thumbed through it. Did't look at the cover--just flipped through the pages.

I started getting creepy vibes from the pictures, which were portraits of people. They were so disturbing that I immediately concluded they must be portraits done by the criminally insane or at the very least someone who was in a very disturbed state of mind. I couldn't put the book down fast enough. As I put it down, I saw whose book it was:



I was going to post this pic here but hadn't gotten around to it. Now seems like an appropriate time.

Irish_Dem

(47,226 posts)
13. In all the TV clips I saw of Bush, he was never sober.
Tue May 24, 2022, 02:55 PM
May 2022

Severe, long term alcoholism.

Along with narcissistic personality, sociopathy, and low IQ.

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)
14. They don't even bother with the other former guy
Tue May 24, 2022, 03:12 PM
May 2022

But he’ll figure out a way to elbow his way into this story one way or another

DFW

(54,426 posts)
15. Who would even bother to take the time?
Tue May 24, 2022, 03:25 PM
May 2022

How do you say "get a life" in Arabic, and where do I address the letter?

Has life gotten so boring in the "terror biz" that they have nothing better to do than plot to kill someone that no one in the USA exept Laura Bush cares about?

Mysterian

(4,589 posts)
21. If I had an innocent family member killed by an invading army,
Tue May 24, 2022, 06:08 PM
May 2022

my life's mission would be to extract revenge.

Emile

(22,861 posts)
22. So I wonder how Putin survives.
Tue May 24, 2022, 06:12 PM
May 2022

You'd think there are a lot of people plotting his assassination.

Solly Mack

(90,779 posts)
31. Does this mean Jenna Bush is going to run for president one day, win, and then attack
Thu May 26, 2022, 12:21 PM
May 2022

a country because "they tried to kill my daddy!"?

Because I've seen that show already.

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