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FBI Ignored Call from Woman Married to Al Qaeda Member

Sara Olson of California was married to an al Qaeda member before 9/11. She tried to tell the FBI and they ignored her.

Saraah Olson says she watched as her then-husband, Hisham Diab, and his group transformed local teen Adam Gadahn into an America-hating fanatic who she says is the masked man who promised in an al Qaeda video message released in Pakistan late October that the "streets of America will run red with blood."

Olson says blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and other bin Laden deputies stayed at her home.

Olson said she repeatedly tried to notify the FBI of her husband's suspicious activities, but that she was never taken seriously. "I'm in hell," Olson remembers thinking after she recognized Abdel-Rahman in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. "I have entered the bowels of hell and I'm going to be here forever. And I've only been married seven months. I've got a terrorist in my house."

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