This is standard fare. Saleem, a Lebanese-born evangelist, has made a career out of speaking to Christian groups about his experiences with the Muslim Brotherhood in the 1970s and '80s. He claims to have been worked, at various points, for Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, and Yasser Arafat, not to mention Saudi terrorists in Afghanistan. In 1979, he says he traveled to the United States on the terrorists' dime to build sleeper cells for the inevitable jihadist takeover, before—miraculously—finding the light and converting to Christianity.

But as I reported in a piece for the magazine last spring, much of Saleem's story doesn't add up. California police have no record of an incident he describes vividly in the first chapter of his book; the FBI says it has no record of meeting with him. And those who knew him before he began traveling the country under a stage name say they have serious doubts about huge portions of his narrative. Wally Winter, a former roommate during the period Saleem purports to have been grooming terrorists, told me, "He could sell swampland in Louisiana. I really do not believe the story about the terrorism."

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Saleem goes to great lengths to explain that he must guard his identity closely. The problem with Saleem's plea is that everyone already knows who Kamal Saleem is—or at least they can find out pretty easily. His real name, Khodor Shami, is readily available in media reports and on the 990 forms of the nonprofit he publicizes at every opportunity. He lives in Colorado Springs, according to both his publicly available LinkedIn profile and White Pages. Under oath last year, he told the Michigan legislature that there is a $25 million bounty on his head by the Muslim Brotherhood, which—in the event that he was telling the truth—means that whoever it is Saleem's afraid of already knows exactly who he is, where he came from, and what he's done. Of course they would; they were his old employers.

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It was around this point that Saleem remarked that the interview was starting to feel like an "interrogation." Which reminded me of something: In his speech, he'd described advising law enforcement and intelligence agencies on Islamic terrorism, but he hadn't given any more specifics. The only agency mentioned in his book is the FBI, and a spokeswoman for bureau's public affairs division had told me she had no record of any such a meeting. "I was wondering," I asked, "which law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies you've worked with?

"The majority of them," he said. "It was in Homeland. There were a whole batch of them."

Any specifically?

"Whole batch of them. All of them. Homeland."