Posted on 10/11/2004 11:41:35 AM PDT by JDGreen123
Just a quick update on our Iraqi Jihadist here in Nashville.
From WSMV 4 in Nashville
The F.B.I. says it has foiled a terrorist plot in Nashville by arresting a man who bought automatic weapons at a local Krispy Kreme donut shop on Thompson Lane. 33-year-old Ahmed Hassan Al-Uqaily was caught Thursday after buying machine guns, handguns, ammunition and hand grenades from an undercover agent.
Channel 4 News’ Susan Harding reported that Al-Uqaily has lived in Nashville since 1991 and lived at at least four different addresses. His name has often appeared in the media over the last few months as an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq.
Federal authorities said Friday they arrested Al-Uqaily during a sting operation set up after he made threats about "going Jihad." Al-Uqaily was arrested Thursday afternoon as he was putting weapons he had purchased from an undercover agent into his car, according to an affidavit from FBI agent Greg Franklin.
According to Nashville police, Al-Uqaily was arrested for assault in 1997.
Iraqi native arrested for terror plot
Also from WTVF 5 in Nashville:
Dr. Amir Arain is a member of Nashville's Muslim community. He says community members are stunned by the arrest of fellow a Muslim in an alleged terror plot against Jews.
Al-Uqaily told the individual during the meeting that he was angry about the state of affairs in Iraq and that he was going “jihad” and going to blow something up. Now there’s fear the accusations may put Nashville’s 15-thousand other Muslims in a bad light.
“He’s not a representative of the Muslim community here in Nashville. He has no association with the Muslim Community,” Arain said.
So far, Dr. Arain says there hasn't been any retaliation against the Muslim community because of the arrest. In fact, he says there hasn't been any violence against the community since the days immediately following 9-11. But, there is tight security around Nashville's four Mosques just in case.
Arain also says that in the United States Jewish people are a representative of Israel. Because Muslims are at odds with Israelis across the globe, he says that may have been the reason for the threat.
Members of Nashville’s Muslim Community Shocked by Arrest of Al-Uqaily
I am also thrilled to see that my city now has 15000 Muslims and 4 Mosques. Isn't diversity great? Not.
Everything we need to stopping the terror in the middle east is all right here. Some music producer just needs to go out and find a Muslim and a Jew who both sing really well, give them a recording contract, and as soon as they win the ACM for best performing group, the rest of the world will see how beautiful it really is when Muslims and Jews work together, and they will lay down thier guns and hug and be merry.
And Country Music will be one step closer to its ultimate goal: Taking over the World.
Well, I guess KK is expanding their offerings to the general public. "I'll have 1 creme filled, 2 crullers and a Thompson, please."
He has no association with the Muslim Community,”
These two sentences are confusing, but then it's easy to be confused by the serpentine logic of muslims.
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Nashville - huh. I am a native Nashvillian myself. Newly relocated to Pensacola. Then number of muslims in Nashville doesn't suprise me. Free drivers license thing and all.
This gentleman is saying that Jewish Americans are legitimate targets IMHO. It is astounding to me that no matter what the Islamoterrorists do the outrage within the Muslim community is typically quiet, and even in the few instances where they do take a stand against terror it is with a veiled suggestion that terror is justified
Dumbazz.
Also remember that Nashville was/is a refuge city for Iraqis (beginning in 1991, probably how this guy got here) and Somalis. Both of those nations are predominantly Muslim.
Oh, he's more of a dumbass than this story tells. He was employed at the Krispy Kreme mentioned.
Can't you just imagine some fellow employee looking out the window going, "Hey, isn't that Ahmed loading a bazooka in his trunk?"
Nashville Kurds' gratitude to Bush swaying votes
They say Bush rid their country of Saddam Hussein and liberated their people. They plan to vote for him next month.
Nashville is home to more Kurds than anywhere else in the United States, so many that it has earned the nickname "Little Kurdistan" among Kurds elsewhere. Estimates of the population vary widely, from 5,000 to 8,000 residents, including American-born children.
Of those, about 1,000 are estimated to be American citizens who are registered to vote.
They're in "shock" that this sort of person would be planning terrorism?
Interesting.
"... All the ones I've encountered are hard-working, good citizens..."
I'm sure there are some nice fellas among the Kurds but I remember when we had a culture in Tennessee that was different than just another melting pot. The northern end of the Natchez Trace was a gracious town populated by lots of good folks. We did not have the mosaic of people found in New York City but we had Whites, Blacks, some Yankee transplants, Goo Goo Clusters, beautiful surrounding horse country, monuments to Sam Davis, Alvin C. York, and pride in Tennessee.
We had a culture worth preserving. Via immigration it will soon be a lost culture. Liberals love to bemoan the demise of American Indian cultures but our own culture slips away into the melting pot all due to....
1. Hollywood junk culture.
2. Rampaging immigration.
Just to add to this....
I live here in Nashville and the first coverage by our local media showed a film clip of the guys vehicle-it had an anti-Bush bumper sticker on it. After that first clip was shown it was never aired again-mysteriously disappeared. Nah. No bias here... nothing to see here.... move along, move along. No evidence of the anti bushers being in league with the terrorists.....
sarcasm off
It's also interesting that the "good doctor" says that this jerk is NOT representative of Muslims or the Muslim community even though he's Muslim BUT..... the Jews are reps of Israel (???????)
Yes, remember that Nashville print and media journalism competes with the national level for being the most liberal. Tennessean publisher John Sigenthaler helped make his career out of being John F. Kennedy's roomate at Harvard. Channel Four "Four the Family" newsteam did a puff piece on promotiing homosexual counselors to help troubled "gay" teens.
Yes, that's his loser van. I wonder if he lives in his 'van down by the river'.
The news didn't show his anti-Bush bumper stickers, lending more credence to obvious conclusion that terrorists support John Kerry.
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