An Iraqi American man arrested on a weapons charge said he considered attacking the Nashville Jewish community. Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily, 33, of Tennessee, was charged Wednesday for trying to purchase machine guns and hand grenades, and said he was “going Jihad” because of anger over the situation in his home country, Iraq.
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