Emad A. Salem (born circa 1950) is an FBI informant, who was a key witness in the trial of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, convicted in the World Trade Center bombing of February 26, 1993.
[2] At the request of the FBI, Salem had befriended the group of plotters in 1991, meeting them at El Sayyid Nosair's trial.
He had recently worked as a security guard at the Bergdorf Goodman department store, and an engineer at a Best Western hotel in New York.
It was following this meeting that Salem agreed to work for the FBI as an informant on the blind sheikh's circle centered in NYC mosques.
In tapes made after the bombings, Salem alleged that an unnamed FBI supervisor declined to move forward on a plan that would have used a "phony powder" to fool the conspirators into believing that they were working with genuine explosives.