Posted on 11/12/2008 2:45:31 PM PST by 3AngelaD
An FBI informant helped agents uncover a visa fraud and gun smuggling scheme run by two Annandale men, one of whom told the informant he could sell him a missile that “can reach the Pentagon,” according to a sworn statement unsealed Monday. The investigation started when the informant met with Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native and legal U.S. resident since 1978, in Hamed’s Annandale home in April 2006, the affidavit said. Hamed reportedly asked the informant to obtain visas for six associates who wanted to immigrate to the U.S. from Jordan and the West Bank.
Hamed reportedly told the informant that three of the of the six passports and visas were for people who had been arrested by the Israeli government. Hamed added that he had been jailed in Israel three times. Months later, between May 2007 and June 2007, Hamed sold three firearms — a fully automatic AR-15 assault rifle and two handguns, one with a serial number scratched off ...
In June 2007, the two met... the informant asked about buying a missile. “When I say missile, it is with everything ... with the controls if you want you can reach the Pentagon,” the affidavit said Hamed responded. In August 2007, the informant met with Hamed’s cousin Ibrahim Hamed, a Jordanian immigrant living legally in the U.S. since 1989. Ibrahim has been charged with transporting a firearm with an obliterated serial number across state lines. Amjad has been charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud....
(Excerpt) Read more at dcexaminer.com ...
Bill Ayers?
Even when they get it right, they get it wrong. That'd be an M-16 or an M-4, dumbass.
No source. Just paranoia. She has been on about 10 lists I have seen of people who are expected to be named to the BO administration. If Bush was blind enough to put her on the 9/11 Commission, why would BO award her even more?
I hope they didn’t catch these guys buy using racial profiling. /sarcasm
Bush didn't put her on the Commission. That was a negotiated deal - the Dems would name a certain number and the Repubs a certain number. Not everything is Bush's fault and I am growing suspicious of motives of those with posts like yours.
In an ironic sort of way, this might be the only way Americans can obtain firearms in the next 4 years. Imagine having to buy firearms from terrorists to protect yourself from your own government. Crazy.
Oh....never mind....
Bush could have rejected her appointment to the commission. You are right that the Dems named some and the Republicans named some, but there was a list of alternates and Bush had final say and could refuse to appoint someone who had been part of the problem. Another Dem would have slid right in. For what it’s worth, I think her appointment was a result of really, really bad staff work. Bush was in Texas while she was working in the Clinton administration and may or may not have known of the role she played in the disaster. But his staff certainly should have known. I sat through about 3/4s of the public hearings in that echo chamber in Hart. It was clear there was some serious butt-covering going on. And as for her, anyone with an ounce of personal integrity would have declined to sit on that commission.
And as for her, anyone with an ounce of personal integrity would have declined to sit on that commission.
It is amazing how often we think that about the Democrats. They are always consistent and it is not on the side of honesty and decency. But like Lucy and the football, we always expect them to do the right thing and we are always disappointed.
ping
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1108/569374.html
“Defendant Allegedly Boasted He Could Acquire a Missile”
posted 5:01 pm Wed November 12, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ANNANDALE, Va. - Two men are being held without bond, accused of selling weapons, visa fraud and even offering to sell an FBI (web) informant a missile that could hit the Pentagon.
According to an affidavit, defendant Amjad Hamed said:
“When I say missile, it is with everything… with the controls if you want you can reach the Pentagon.””
"The investigation started when the informant met with Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native and legal U.S. resident since 1978, in Hamed’s Annandale home in April 2006, the affidavit said. Hamed reportedly asked the informant to obtain visas for six associates who wanted to immigrate to the U.S. from Jordan and the West Bank. Hamed reportedly told the informant that three of the of the six passports and visas were for people who had been arrested by the Israeli government. Hamed added that he had been jailed in Israel three times. Months later, between May 2007 and June 2007, Hamed sold three firearms — a fully automatic AR-15 assault rifle and two handguns, one with a serial number scratched off — to the informant, the affidavit said."
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1516081
(THE EXAMINER)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In August 2007, the informant met with Hamed’s cousin Ibrahim Hamed, a Jordanian immigrant living legally in the U.S. since 1989.
Ibrahim has been charged with transporting a firearm with an obliterated serial number across state lines. Amjad has been charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud.”
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/news/2008/nov/25/annandale-man-offers-sell-missile-fbi-informant/
“Annandale man offers to sell missile to FBI informant”
Fairfax County
By Gregg MacDonald
Source: Fairfax County Times
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 2008
SNIPPET: “”You want to hit the Pentagon. You can put the bottle on it, the blue bottle, and hit the Pentagon.”— Amjad Hamed, as quoted in a U.S. District Court affidavit.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Hamed provided the informant with six valid Palestinian passports and asked him to obtain U.S. visas for them.
According to the affidavit, Hamed revealed that he was part of an international visa fraud scheme. “I challenge anyone in the world who can bring so many passports without being inspected,” he is quoted as saying.
Hamed is also quoted as saying he was a member of the Palestinian Authority who met regularly with Yasir Arafat.
Hamed’s references to smuggling were also quoted in the affidavit. “Yes, I have connections to transport from America directly to the middle of Lebanon ... no one does anything through the airport ... the airport is hard. All the companies have to disclose their shipment. Do you know through what? ... via the port ... By the sea.””
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