Osama Eldawoody
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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 area. His work broke up a terrorist plot to blow up the Herald Square Subway Station and Macy's Herald Square Department Store, one of the largest in the World. He was paid $100,000 over 3 years. He is regarded as an American national hero.
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