I just love it when a sting comes together...don't you?

From Philly.com:

Two years ago, an undercover FBI agent in Philadelphia met up with a Lebanese guy from Dearborn, Mich., who said he wanted to do a little business.

Their arrangement was pretty simple: the agent sold supposedly stolen laptops, cell phones and PlayStation systems to the guy, Hassan Mohamad Komeiha, who had the items shipped all over - Detroit, Los Angeles, Slovakia, Paraguay, Bahrain, you name it.

Then some of Komeiha's friends started making requests, started talking about "the Resistance" and taking out fighter planes, and this little arrangement got really serious.

Yesterday, federal authorities lifted the curtain on their long-running investigation, which climaxed Saturday when Dani Nemr Tarraf - one of Komeiha's pals - was arrested after he arrived in Philadelphia to allegedly examine anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns that he wanted shipped to Iran or Syria.

The feds announced charges against Tarraf, Komeiha and three other men (Tarraf and other defendants -- including Douri Nemr Tarraf of Slovakia, Hassan Mohamad Komeiha of Dearborn and Hussein Ali Asfour of Centerville, Ga. -- were charged with conspiring to transport stolen goods. Dani Nemr Tarraf and Ali Fadel Yahfoufi of Slovakia also were charged with conspiring to commit passport fraud according to this source.) who took part in a ring that distributed stolen goods around the world, according to the affidavit.

Authorities yesterday also detailed a separate but connected investigation that charged Komeiha and seven other men with running a stolen and counterfeit goods ring.

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The investigation began in June 2007, when Komeiha, 39, met with the undercover agent in Philadelphia to discuss buying stolen laptops and Sony PlayStation 2 systems, according a federal affidavit. The undercover agent started shipping large numbers of stolen items for Komeiha on an almost monthly basis.

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