The president's bodyguards who had actually threatened an assassination attempt during the visit of US President Donald Trump to the Philippines, according to a National Geographic documentary.
The US Secret Service, an agency charged with the personal security of a US president, thwarted an assassination attempt on Trump during his 2017 visit to Manila, Philippines, for an ASEAN summit.
The revelation comes from a National Geographic documentary screened on Sunday.
According to the film, days before the ASEAN summit, Manila rose to "critical threat level" because of threats attributed to the Daesh terrorists. The videos published by Daesh called on the lonely attackers to "lone wolf" to "wait" and "ambush" the president while he visited the Philippines.
As Trump, allegedly codenamed "Mogul," prepared to leave for Manila, the Secret Service rummaged through social networks for signs of a possible attack, and they found one in the form of a tweet.
"I'm going to be in Manila at the same time as Trump ... I'll bring one to the guys on the team," he read the tweet, accompanied by a photo of Lee Harvey Oswald, the notorious assassin of US President John F. Kennedy.
According to the video of NatGeo, there is a special software to shuffle the posts of social networks that humans can faster. The Service reportedly found the instagram account of a jihadist, where a photo of a book entitled "How to Kill: The Definitive Story of the Killer" was posted.
Deciding these two clues were sufficient to stipulate a credible threat, the Service located the owner's computer and found it in Manila, a few miles from the hotel where the president was scheduled to stay.
Until about 20 minutes before the Air Force One landing in Manila, the Secret Service had no idea of the precise location of the computer owner. Following the president's landing in a matter of minutes, agents tracked the suspect to Luneta Park, a mile from the hotel where Trump was scheduled to stay. With the assistance of Manila police, the service swept the park and arrested the suspect.
Speaking in an interview, Special Agent Chad Ragan attributed much of the operation's success to technology.
"We were able to know that he was approaching us where he was, and track him down. That was a big chunk of stopping the threat," he said, but added that without the help of Manila police, the mission it would have been much more difficult.
Revealing some of the details of the Secret Service's work, Ragan stressed that it is crucial to the success of the mission that workers remain non-partisan while on duty.
"It does not matter if you like the person who is in the position, it does not matter if you do not like the person who is in the office - the bottom line is that you are not protecting that person, you're protecting the office and what it represents "he said.
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