| It was a dark and stormy night... |
 It is no secret to the Muslim immigrants of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, that spies live among them.
| Special Agenct Starchedshirt adjusted his binoculars as he ogled the nubile young Pakistani maiden from his hidden vantage point in the bushes opposite her sparsely appointed bathroom... |
Almost anyone can rattle off what they regard as the telltale signs of police informers: They like to talk politics. They have plenty of free time. They live in the neighborhood, but have no local relatives. "They think we don't know, but we know who they are," said Linda Sarsour, 26, a community activist.
| "We have our own ways of gaining precious information on their nefarious plots against innocent Muslims," she said, carefully adjusting her burka. "Young men who would gladly sacrifice themselves for a single glance from my sultry eyes are infiltrating the FBI and the NYPD, even as we speak! Victory will soon be ours!" |
It is another thing for them to be officially revealed. Over the last several weeks, during the trial of a Pakistani immigrant who was convicted on Wednesday of plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station, Muslims in Bay Ridge learned that two agents of the police had been planted in the neighborhood and were instrumental to the case.
| Drawing his cloak more tightly around his skinny shoulders, the informant skulked down the alley, toward the House of Mahmoud. The poisoned dagger at his waist was ready to use at a moment's notice... |
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