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A scary story of militants, FBI bungling 06/08/03 Donna Marchetti Special to The Plain Dealer Imagine you are a Jewish woman living in the United States with your husband and children. On Friday night, you and your family have a traditional Shabbat dinner. On Saturday morning, you rise and don a chador, the black baglike garment worn by many Muslim women in the Middle East. Under your clothing, you have taped a small recording device to your skin. Your husband drops you off a few blocks from your destination. At the door of a mosque, or perhaps a convention...

The woman code-named "Sarah" appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes" May 4 wearing a red wig and a prosthetic nose. Her voice was electronically altered as she recalled growing up a Jew in Iraq, where her father was executed as an alleged Israeli spy, before moving to the United States to become a private investigator pursuing possible Muslim terrorists. Her new book, "Terrorist Hunter," documents her career of sneaking into mosques and Islamic conferences with tape recorders strapped to her body underneath her burqas. She wrote the book under the name "Anonymous," saying she feared she would be assassinated if Islamic...