Killing the person responsible for the destruction of Iraq in that Dallas, which was the scene of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in 1963.
This was the plan of an ISIS cell to assassinate former President George W. Bush.
A plot organized in detail but thwarted by the FBI thanks to two of its informants and online monitoring.
The mastermind of the operation, Iraqi Shihab Ahmed Shihab, had been harboring hatred against Bush for years and seeking revenge for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Arrived in the United States in 2020 and awaiting an answer to his asylum application, the man lived in Columbus, Ohio, from where he wove the web to carry out his mission of killing the 43rd president of the United States.
After months of strategizing with alleged accomplices in other Middle Eastern countries, Shihab was ready to strike at the end of 2021 with the help of a commando brought in from Mexico.
Last November he flew to Texas for an inspection: he filmed the former president's house and the George W. Bush Institute, according to a request for a search warrant filed by the FBI on March 23.
Around the same time, he revealed his plan to one of the federal agency's undercover whistleblowers and asked him for help in obtaining a "fake police badge" with which he could act more freely.
His plan also included finding and killing a former Iraqi general who helped the Americans during the 2003 war and who, according to rumors, lives undercover in the US.
Shahib trusted the two informants with whom he had been in contact to obtain false immigration documents that he agreed to use a cell phone they had provided him with.
A smartphone that later proved fatal for his operation.
He had told them he was part of the 'Al-Raed' unit and claimed to have killed many Americans in Iraq between 2003 and 2006 with cars packed with explosives.
And with them he too went into the details of his mission, revealing that a group of seven people would be sent to the United States to kill Bush.
The command included four of his countrymen who were supposed to come from Iraq, Turkey, Egypt and Denmark.
One of these was the "secretary of an ISIS finance minister", he told one of the informants, explaining that the four men belonged to the former Baath party of Saddam Hussein and were in "political exile" because they were against the current Iraqi government.
The commandos were supposed to enter the United States illegally from Mexico, where they had to land on simple tourist visas.
Once the operation was completed, he would have left the States in the same way.
Shihab seemed confident considering that he had already managed to get at least two men associated with Hezbollah into the United States for $ 50,000 each.
Thanks to its two paid informants, however, the FBI managed to foil the plot and stop the man, currently in the custody of the authorities.
"President Bush has all the confidence in the world in the Secret Service and intelligence," says a spokesman for the former president.
Bush in recent days has slipped on Iraq.
In a gaffe that did not go unnoticed, he confused Ukraine with Iraq while criticizing Vladimir Putin for his "unwarranted and brutal invasion".
The same words that were addressed to his administration in 2003, when the president authorized the operation in Iraq, motivating it with the need to eliminate those weapons of mass destruction that were never found.