US media claim: ISIL member intended to assassinate “George W. Bush”
A US media outlet quoted the US Federal Police as saying that a member of ISIL had a plan to assassinate former US President George W. Bush.
An American media outlet reported on Tuesday evening, that a person who claims to be a member of ISIS had planned to assassinate former US President George W. Bush.
The FBI website wrote that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced that it had discovered the plan of this person through its two informants as well as by monitoring the account of the person in WhatsApp messengers.
According to the US Federal Police, the ISIS operative, based in Columbus, Ohio, planned to assassinate Bush (Bush Jr.) because he felt that the former president was responsible for killing many Iraqis after the 2003 US military invasion.
According to the US Federal Police, the organizer of this conspiracy has been in the United States since 2020 and his asylum application is being processed.
George W. Bush’s chief of staff, Freddie Ford, has said that Bush has confidence in the US Secret Service and its intelligence community.
According to Forbes, seven members of the terrorist group formed by the ISIS operative were sent to the United States to assassinate President Bush, and their task was to identify and monitor the residence or offices of the former US president, and to obtain firearms and vehicles. For use in assassination operations.