DALLAS — An alleged Islamic State operative based in Ohio was plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush and even traveled to Dallas late last year to survey his home, according to an exclusive Forbes report and recently unsealed court documents.
The alleged ISIS operative said he wanted to assassinate Bush because he felt the former president was responsible for killing Iraqis and destabilizing the country after the U.S. invasion in 2003, according to an unsealed FBI search-warrant application obtained by Forbes. The alleged operative planned to smuggle assassins across the Mexican border to Dallas to kill the former president.
The news comes days after Bush, who was president from 2001 to 2009, made headlines for a verbal faux pas when he said the invasion of Iraq was “wholly unjustified and brutal,” when he meant the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
