A citizen of Afghanistan has been charged for allegedly conspiring to conduct a terrorist attack on US soil, the US Department of Justice said on Tuesday. The department said the man, 27, who resided in the US state of Oklahoma, planned to carry out an attack on the day of the presidential election, November 5. “As charged, the Justice Department foiled the defendant’s plot to acquire semi-automatic weapons and commit a violent attack in the name of ISIS on U.S. soil on Election Day,” Attorney General Merrick Garland, using an acronym for extremist militia organization Islamic State. “We will …