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The Informer: Behind the Scenes, or Setting the Stage?
"It's something that had to be done," says Osama Eldawoody, an NYPD informer whose work helped convict Shahawar Matin Siraj.
(By Robin Shulman -- The Washington Post)
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"Marwa needs to go to school; I will do any job to protect her," Fotna says. She moved with Marwa back to Staten Island and left Eldawoody to his own devices. "He can be homeless -- he is a man alone."
Now, at the checkout line, she talks openly about divorce, but dismisses it.
"What can we do? I want my daughter to live with her father."
Eldawoody offers no reaction as he pays for the groceries.
Fotna eventually took it upon herself to negotiate with her husband's police contacts on the family's behalf, and returned to live with him and go with him cross-country. She leaves issues of security to her husband and does not tell even her closest family where she is. When her sister on the phone asks where she lives, she answers: "In the world."
Marwa, with long wavy black hair, black eyes and pale skin, has not been allowed to contact any of her old friends. Instead, she writes a book of letters she never mails.
Eldawoody says he is sorry for the pain and dislocation he's caused Marwa, but he did the right thing for the United States.
And he has his dreams. He wonders if he might sell the film rights to his story. And someday he wants to start his own organization, take off on a national speaking tour of mosques and train other Muslims to become informers, like him.
