May 24, 2012
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee man charged with killing a soldier at a recruiting station in Arkansas says in letters to a newspaper that he had planned a larger-scale attack before his arrest.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad says he was planning multiple attacks including sites in Nashville and Florence, Ky.
The inmate wrote seven letters earlier this year detailing his motives to the Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
He says that after returning from Yemen, he began plotting an attack with targets that included rabbis in Memphis, Little Rock and Nashville, and recruiting centers from the South to Washington D.C.
Muhmmad, 24, faces the death penalty or life in prison without parole if convicted of capital murder in the June 2009 fatal shooting of Pvt. William Andrew Long.
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Information from: The Commercial Appeal, http://www.commercialappeal.com
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