Osama Eldawoody

Osama Eldawoody is a US citizen with a nuclear engineering degree who volunteered to work as a paid New York City Police Department informant to work undercover in Mosques in the New York metropolitan area. In 2004, his work broke up a terrorist plot by Shahawar Matin Siraj and James Elshafay to blow up the 34th Street–Herald Square station of the New York City Subway, and the Macy's Herald Square Department Store, one of the largest in the world.^[1]

References

1. • "Band of brothers.(United States v. Shahawar Matin Siraj)". Harper's Magazine. October 1, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • "Terror Informant Seeks Sen. Clinton Help". Associated Press. September 13, 2006. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Shulman, Robin (May 29, 2007). "The Informer: Behind the Scenes, or Setting the Stage?". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Hays, Tom (September 14, 2006). "Letter to Clinton may affect terrorism case". The Buffalo News. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • "Would-Be NYC Subway Bomber Faces Prison". Associated Press. January 7, 2007. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Hays, Tom (May 25, 2006). "Pakistani immigrant guilty in subway bomb plot". Associated Press. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • "Would-Be NY Subway Bomber Gets 30 Years". Associated Press. January 9, 2007. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Rashbaum, William K. (May 26, 2006). "Pakistani is convicted in N.Y. subway bomb plot". International Herald Tribune. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Wolff, Carlo (December 16, 2007). "A hard look at the state of American justice". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).
   • Pipes, Daniel (September 16, 2011). "New York's anti-terror example". Chicago Jewish Star. Retrieved August 24, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (subscription required (help)).

External links

• CBS News story, September 14, 2006