Osama Eldawoody is a US citizen with a nuclear engineering degree who volunteered to work as a paid New York City Police Department

New York City Police Department

The New York City Police Department , established in 1845, is currently the largest municipal police force in the United States, with primary responsibilities in law enforcement and investigation within the five boroughs of New York City...

 informant to work undercover in Mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

s in the New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 area. His work broke up a terrorist plot by Shahawar Matin Siraj

Shahawar Matin Siraj

Shahawar Matin Siraj is a Pakistani American who planned to bomb the Herald Square of Manhattan, New York, when police arrested him in 2004. A New York court found Siraj guilty of plotting to commit a terrorist act in U.S. v. Shahawar Matin Siraj . Siraj worked at an Islamic bookstore in Bay...

 and James Elshafay to blow up the Herald Square

Herald Square

Herald Square is formed by the intersection of Broadway, Sixth Avenue and 34th Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Named for the New York Herald, a now-defunct newspaper formerly headquartered there, it also gives its name to the surrounding area...

Subway Station and Macy's Herald Square Department Store, one of the largest in the world.

External links

• CBS News story, September 14, 2006