Okay... it's been driving me crazy all day since reading about your trip to the AIC office.
Backlick Rd... I can't figure out why it sounds so familiar.
Isn't Ft. Belvoir off of Backlick Rd?
Fort Belvoir is pretty far from Annandale where this building that houses/housed the American Iraqi Council is.
Backlick comes and goes as a road and you can't drive from Annandale to the Fort on Backlick. New roads that are bigger have taken Backlick's place. Still, Backlick pops up from time to time and is a side road at points.
Backlick runs into 244/Columbia Pike right in Annandale. If you cross Columbia Pike the name of Backlick changes to Maple Place. I looked at the sign on the outside of 7264 Maple Place and in the front hall (from the locked door) and didn't see the American Iraqi Council Listed.
My sense is that the American Iraqi Chamber of Commerce is the successor organization, but I don't know this for sure.
The building also houses Annandale's Chamber of Commerce and some other organizations. So if it is a successor organization, maybe they got the idea from Annandale's Chamber of Commerce.
I can't tell if Sam and Ahmed are the same person. However, they could be. Sam, who is running for Congress, has a beard, but the picture on the site looks sort of like a touched up photo.
Well, got to go to work. The holiday is over.