Muhammad is an Associate of Christopher "Chris" Moltisanti. He always appears with his friend Ahmed Al-Najafi.
Background[]
Muhammad and Ahmed, together known as "The Arabs" to most, live in Brooklyn, New York and were involved in Christopher and James "Murmur" Zancone's credit card scam. They are frequent customers at the Bada-Bing, but according to Tony, they had disappeared for a while before resuming their visits, at which point they began to regularly mingle with men in "head gear and the beard, the whole fundamental bit". In their first speaking roles, Ahmed and Muhammad meet with Christopher to buy credit cards taken in the names of customers to various DiMeo family fronts and ask him about acquiring TEC-9 semi-automatic pistols with extended magazines for a "family situation" involving Muhammad's former brother-in-law. They also gave well wishes to Tony's recent discharge from the hospital and handed over some dates as a gift.
Tony suspected them of being an Al-Qaeda sleeper cell. Tony passed their names and Ahmed's cell phone number to the FBI and later passes details of their merchant bank to Agent Dwight Harris hoping to gain information on Philip "Phil" Leotardo's location in return. The FBI finds unusual transfers to their Mitner First Merchants' Bank account, presumably traces from their use of the stolen credit card information.
Christopher shared Tony's suspicions but also stated that he thinks they were just "gun nuts", mentioning that Muhammad and his girlfriend have a pet dog (Springer Spaniel), something that is forbidden in some Muslim circles. He also says that Muhammad has a brother who is a government interrogator "in Lebanon or Syria".
Trivia[]
- Tony misremembers Muhammad's name as Fazul, probably mixing it up from hearing the name of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, an Al-Qaeda leader who was prominently mentioned in press reports about the War on Terror throughout the mid-2000s.
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