and this is a fox news alert breaking in
now with this news the fbi has busted a
terror suspect linked to isis and
according to reports the feds say that
suspect was planning an assassination
plot to kill the former u.s president
george w bush julian turner's got the
latest on this from washington
it's a breaking story in the latest
details to reveal the suspect jillian
has been arrested and is due in federal
court in columbus ohio shortly that's
right sandra fox news has also confirmed
the suspect's name is shahab ahmed
shihab
he will be indicted in columbus ohio any
moment now the charging documents in
this case were resealed just a short
while ago we have not yet been given
explanation as to why but we're hoping
for a statement from the u.s attorney
for the southern district of ohio now
here's what we reportedly what we know
reportedly about shahab he's an iraqi
national who's been here in the u.s
since 2020 with alleged links to isis he
has been plotting to murder the former
president george w bush now it is
believed that he traveled to dallas last
november for a surveillance mission
where he shot video of the president's
home in the surrounding neighborhood
this is according to an fbi search
warrant application that was filed on
march 23rd shahab also recruited an
entire team to join him in this murder
plot he was planning to smuggle people
here into the u.s across
the border with mexico freddie ford jr
who worked for the former president
in the administration is now his chief
of staff says quote president bush has
all the confidence in the world in the
u.s secret service and our law
enforcement and intelligence communities
we also sandra learned just a moment ago
that the former president's nephew
george p bush speaking at an event live
responded to this news
he said it really highlights the
national security crisis that's
unfolding along the u.s southern border
all right one last thing to note for you
here nbc news is reporting an
interesting element of this plot they
say that at all times court documents
show that shahab was talking to an fbi
confidential informant and was therefore
under some kind of government
surveillance meaning the physical threat
to the former president was always low
at least for as long as the government
was aware of the plot that was unfolding
sandra so at this time jillian we don't
have the specific charges that he faces
yet as you mentioned due in uh court
shortly um there in columbus ohio but
just digging into the various details
we're learning from the various reports
including our own reporting on this so
far is that this suspect was planning to
go as far as traveling to dallas in
november to take video around the former
president's home and recruiting a team
of compatriots he hoped to smuggle into
the country as you mentioned jillian
over the mexico border i'm sure there's
a lot more we're going to learn here in
the coming minutes and hours
yeah we'll bring it to you sandra as it
comes in as soon as he appears in court
okay jillian on that for us thank you
you get it you're better john
all right sander bret bear still with us
uh you know this sounds like the plot
against his father as well the fbi had
this thing nailed from the beginning
yeah but this is very intricate this guy
had operatives in turkey egypt denmark
that he wanted to in iraq that he wanted
to bring into the united states through
the southern border it sounds like the
plot would be
to arm these guys have them in a van
pull up beside bush as he was traveling
somewhere open the door and opened fire
on
yeah i mean it's very specific and we
should credit forbes originally with the
original story uh we've confirmed a lot
of this
and now
he was talking supposedly to as julie
mentioned two confidential uh informants
where this plot came
was realized
what what it does is a number of things
one is
highlight the security and the secret
service that is with former presidents
uh that face threats not only that but
former members of the trump
administration who face threats from
iran and other countries specifically
because of the targeting of qasim
suleimani
but secondly it brings up the issue of
the southern border yeah and it really
hits hard
the national security implications of
making that border secure because the
plan was for this guy to bring these
four operatives in through the southern
border get them some sort of visa in
mexico and then just come in yeah and so
the easier that that is
the more porous it is the more chance
that bad guys can get through there and
you know a lot of people who are saying
that you know the immigration problem is
we're making it bigger than it is first
of all go down to those states and talk
to the people along the border number
one number two
there are time and time again more
indications that bad guys are coming
through the border we just had the dhs
secretary say 42
suspected terrorists
uh came through and we know where they
are
well we don't well we had a story just
this morning of a guy
who was brought in uh he was apprehended
processed released turns out that he was
on the terror watch list they re he got
they got him again and he had the gps
and they tracked him but he was in
florida and so governor desantis has
weighed in on this so i think the
southern border issue
is highlighted in this and obviously the
specifics and the threat to uh president
back to brett's original point about the
the reporting originally coming to uh
from forbes exclusively on this
obviously now others including us
reporting on it as well but freddie ford
the chief of staff uh for the office of
george w bush uh has a statement in the
forbes piece saying president bush has
all the confidence in the world in the
united states secret service and our law
enforcement intelligence communities so
that statement is out there but brett it
also goes to show
this particular case that is how federal
investigators and forbes point this out
continue to monitor threats from isis
even as that group has been severely
weakened
in recent years
this would obviously be a big catch
definitely and it seems like they're
going through the process and they have
a lot of details the fact that we have
all that we have so far is pretty unique
um isis is a threat so are terrorists we
don't think about them as much as we
used to
but they're still a threat from the
middle east and elsewhere
this is very specific in its targeting
but again the southern border factors in
big in this story
all right brett uh good to be to stick
around thanks we'll see you tonight a
special report see you all right hi
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