Informant Asks for Sen. Clinton's Help
NEW YORK (AP) - An unusual exchange of letters between an undercover informant and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's office has apparently angered authorities and may have complicated the case of a man convicted of plotting to bomb a busy subway station.
Osama Eldawoody - a paid New York Police Department informant who was instrumental in exposing the 2004 subway scheme - told The Associated Press that he wrote to Clinton last month, complaining that his law enforcement handlers misled him with false promises of a better life and asking her to intervene on his behalf. (SNIP)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6077682,00.html
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/13/MNGUBL4RG110.DTL
"S.F. State prof stranded in Canada gets his visa"
Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(09-13) 10:40 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco State Arabic professor who has been stranded in Canada for three months while waiting for the U.S. State Department to give him security clearance and issue him a visa can now return home.
Assistant professor Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama, who traveled to the U.S. Consulate in Toronto on June 20 and was stuck there after the consulate canceled his scholar visa, was called by the consulate in Toronto, Canada, today and told that he could pick up a new visa on Thursday, his attorney Clark M. Trevor said.
"We have an immense burden removed," said Paul Sherwin, dean of the College of Humanities at San Francisco State. "He is somebody who is very dear to me and he has worked so hard, and for somebody to have to undergo such an ordeal is awful. We are most concerned about him, but clearly we are also concerned about the students and how this has impacted them."
His classes at San Francisco State University have been covered by a temporary replacement.
"My client is ecstatic after 90 days in Canada," Trevor said. "He can get on a plane and come back here and resume teaching his classes. He is the kind of person this country needs in these tumultuous times. He is doing great service in advancing knowledge about Islam.""