"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.””